Two debuts by Tatiana Pavlovskaya

Leading Mariinsky Theatre soloist Tatiana Pavlovskaya’s repertoire includes more than forty roles and covers almost the entire range of works for lyrical dramatic soprano in Russian and European operas. She favours deeply emotional, suffering and responsive characters. Characters in operas by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov occupy an important place in her art; these include Kupava in The Snow Maiden and Princess Olga in The Maid of Pskov, while the singer also made a recent debut as Volkhova, the Princess of the Sea, in the opera-bylina Sadko.

With an interval of four days between the performances, Pavlovskaya will be appearing in two roles that are new to her, travelling, as it were, through time – as Liza in the Pushkin-based classical tragedy and as Giulietta in Hoffmann’s enchanting phantasmagoria, brought to life through the modern stage language of director Vasily Barkhatov within Zinovy Margolin’s intense stage space. Her appearance in this season’s stunning new production will mark yet another stage in her artistic development. As the singer says, “new technology such as film and 3D video projection open up incredible new opportunities in opera and will allow sets to be reduced to a minimum in the near future. I am sure that these innovations will also make the music more effective, convincing the audience of the moral power it undoubtedly possesses.