Lydia Bobokhina was born in Ust-Nera (urban locality in Oimyakon District, Yakutia). Graduated from the Rimsky-Korsakov St Petersburg State Conservatory in 2002 (class of Grayr Khanedanian).
During 2002–2018 she was a soloist with the Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers. Made her Mariinsky Theatre debut in 2003, appearing as a Touriere in Suor Angelica.
Since January 2018 she has been a soloist with the Mariinsky Opera Company.
Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre:
Ratmir (Ruslan and Lyudmila)
Tamara’s Nurse (The Demon)
Xenia’s Nurse (Boris Godunov)
Sister-in-law (May Night)
Yaroslavna’s Nurse (Prince Igor)
The Tsar’s Page (The Snow Maiden)
Marta (Iolanta, concert performance)
Old Gypsy Woman (Aleko, concert performance)
Woman with a Violet-coloured Nose (Christmas Eve)
Nezhata (Sadko)
Petrovna (The Tsar’s Bride)
Babarikha (The Tale of Tsar Saltan)
Alkonost (The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya)
Amelfa (The Golden Cockerel)
Death (Le Rossignol)
An Elderly Lady (The Nose)
An Ordinary Lady (The Gambler)
Semyon’s Mother (Semyon Kotko)
Princess Marya and Mavra Kuzminichna (War and Peace)
The Soldier’s Mother’s Lament (Dead Souls)
January (A Christmas Tale)
Witch Tabita (Mandragora)
Mrs Quickly (Falstaff)
The Monitor, a Touriere and a Lay-sister (Suor Angelica)
Mary (Der fliegende Holländer)
Schwertleite (Die Walküre)
A Maidservant (Elektra)
Heavenly Voice (Die Frau ohne Schatten)
A Lady-in-waiting (Les Huguenots)
Marthe (Gounod’s Faust)
Mistress Bentson (Lakmé)
Mother Goose (The Rake’s Progress, concert performance)
Maid and Godmother (Jenůfa)
In 2025 at the Mariinsky Theatre she has taken part in the world premiere of the opera Mandragora by Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Peter Dranga.
The singer’s repertoire also includes the roles of Vanya (A Life for the Tsar), Filippyevna (Eugene Onegin) and the Mother (Mavra).
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