24 October 2025 |
…The main soloists are Ekaterina Lukash (Orpheus) and Inna Klochko (Eurydice). Lukash has a beautiful, deep mezzo – neither sweet nor honeyed but spicy, metallic and expressive. Her voice is not merely a fine instrument but a medium capable of conveying subtle emotional gradations. Her meditative, melancholic style suited the role perfectly, shaping a portrait of a deeply suffering hero detached from worldly joys and ready for self-sacrifice.
Alexander Matusevich, NEWSmuz.com, 13 February 2015
When Cherubino (Ekaterina Lukash) appears among a crowd of girls disguised in women’s clothes, he stands out as only a teenager can among a throng of young ladies. Lukash and Natalia Petrozhitskaya were nominated for acting awards at the Golden Mask. (…) Lukash’s performance – conceived by the artist and, of course, guided by the director – is both a musical and dramatic firework, a hundred bottles of champagne opened at once.
Anna Gordeyeva, Petersburgsky teatralnyi zhurnal (“St Petersburg Theatre Magazine”), 24 January 2022
Carmen in this production is far from traditional: a tall, fragile beauty in a black dress with a black rose, she seems a lady from the jazz-age 1930s who rules the hearts and minds of everyone around her. Ekaterina Lukash is splendid in the role, combining brilliant vocal execution with deep dramatic talent.
Olga Sevryugina, Nizhegorodskaya pravda (“Nizhny Novgorod Truth”), 16 March 2023
• Prize-winner at the 27th International Glinka Competition of Vocalists (Moscow, 2024; 1st prize)
• Recipient of the Onegin National Opera Award in the category “Favourite” (2022; for the role of Friday in Robinson Crusoe)
• Diploma recipient of Russia’s Golden Mask National Theatre Award (2022; for the role of Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro)
Ekaterina Lukash was born in Voronezh. She graduated with honours from Moscow’s Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS; class of Alexander Titel and Igor Yasulovich) in 2015 and subsequently continued her studies at Moscow’s Victor Popov Academy of Choral Arts (class of Natalia Popova).
From 2014 to 2017 the singer was a trainee at the Moscow State Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre, and since 2021 she has been a soloist of the company. There Ekaterina Lukash performed the title role in Carmen, the parts of Adalgisa (Norma), Isabella (L’italiana in Algeri), Niklausse (Les Contes d’Hoffmann), Maddalena (Rigoletto), Suzuki (Madama Butterfly), Friday (Robinson Crusoe), Lyubasha (The Tsar’s Bride), Olga (Eugene Onegin), Polina (The Queen of Spades), the Tkachikha (Weaver) (The Tale of Tsar Saltan) and the Princess (Dargomyzhsky’s Mermaid).
She has appeared as a guest soloist with the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia (title role in Offenbach’s La Périchole, Sonya in a concert version of War and Peace), with the Novosibirsk (Konchakovna in Prince Igor, Carmen), Krasnoyarsk (Amneris in Aida, Orpheus in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, Adalgisa in Norma, Boulotte in Barbe-Bleue), Nizhny Novgorod (Countess in The Queen of Spades, Carmen) and Voronezh (Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, the Child in Ravel’s L’Enfant et les sortilèges) opera and ballet theatres and with the State Opera of Tatarstan (Polina and Milovzor in The Queen of Spades, Marina Mnishek in Boris Godunov, Fenena in Nabucco, Third Lady in Die Zauberflöte, Carmen). Regular guest at the Feodor Chaliapin International Opera Festival in Kazan.
In 2019 the singer took part in the world premiere of Vladimir Nikolayev’s opera Worker and Kolkhoz Woman (role of Marlene Dietrich; Moscow Concert Hall Zaryadye), and in 2021 she appeared in the world premiere of Igor Raykhelson’s The Burned Chapter of “Eugene Onegin” (Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory). In 2020 the artist portrayed Romeo (I Capuleti e i Montecchi) at the 5th Seeing the Music Festival of Musical Theatres on the stage of the Moscow State Opera and Ballet Theatre for Young Audience named after Natalia Sats.
Ekaterina Lukash made her Mariinsky Theatre debut in 2025 at the concert of laureates of the 27th International Glinka Competition of Vocalists, performing Varvara’s songs and couplets from Not Only Love and – together with Albina Shagimuratova – the duet of Norma and Adalgisa from Norma. In the same year she appeared for the first time in a Mariinsky Theatre production, singing Adalgisa at the premiere of a new staging of Norma. Since October 2025 the artist has been a soloist with the Mariinsky Opera Company.
Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre:
Adalgisa (Norma)
Carmen (Carmen)
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