Irina Vaneyeva

• Prize-winner at the 8^th International Competition St Petersburg in the Mirror of World Musical Culture (2018; 1^st prize)
• Diploma recipient at the 5^th Pavel Lisitsian International Vocal Competition (Vladikavkaz, 2017)
• Diploma recipient at the 4^th Maxim Mikhailov International Competition for Young Opera Singers (Kaluga, 2014)
• Diploma recipient at the 5^th Sergei Rachmaninoff Music International Competition (St Petersburg, 2012)

Irina Vaneyeva was born in Syktyvkar. Graduated from the Rimsky-Korsakov St Petersburg State Conservatory (class of Vladimir Vaneyev) in 2012. Trained at St Petersburg’s Elena Obraztsova International Academy of Music and received her master’s degree in vocal art from St Petersburg’s Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia.

In 2007 she sang the role of Tsarevich Fyodor in  Boris Godunov at the Maxim Mikhailov International Opera Festival in Cheboksary.

Was a soloist with the Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers from 2012 to 2023. Made her Mariinsky Theatre debut in 2019, appearing in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. Since 2023 she has been a soloist with the Mariinsky Opera Company.

Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre:
Tamara’s Nurse (The Demon)
Khivrya (Sorochintsy Fair)
Martha (Iolanta)
Tsaritsa (Christmas Eve)
Kashcheyevna (Kashchey the Immortal)
Alkonost (The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya)
Death (Le Rossignol) 
Sonetka (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk) 
Music Teacher (Lolita)
Giovanna (Rigoletto)
The Princess and the Monitress (Suor Angelica)

Her repertoire also includes: Lyubasha (The Tsar’s Bride), Olga (Eugene Onegin) among other roles.

Has appeared at the Grand and Small halls of the St Petersburg Philharmonia, at the St Petersburg State Capella, the Sverdlovsk Philharmonic and the Moscow Conservatory.

Associate professor at the Solo Singing Department of the St Petersburg Conservatory, senior lecturer at the Solo Singing Department of St Petersburg’s Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia.