Oksana Lesnichaya
Oksana Lesnichaya was born in Tolyatti and is a graduate of the Kharkov Musical College and the Moscow Conservatory. From 2002 to 2004, she studied at the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre, where she has sung Lyudmila in Glinka’s Ruslan and Lyudmila, Marfa in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride and Marguerite in Gounod’s Faust.
She has toured with the Opera Centre in Russia and to Georgia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, France, Sweden and the Republic of South Africa and has appeared in the Centre’s performances at the Golden Prague festival in the Czech Republic and May Opera Evenings in Macedonia.
In 2000, Lesnichaya sang Fiordiligi in Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte at the Ludwigsburg Festival in Germany. In 2006, she took part in a staged version of Edison Denisov’s opera The Four Girls at Tchaikovsky Concert Hall under the baton of Gennady Rozhdestvensky and sang the soprano part in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra led by Vladimir Fedoseyev.
In 2008, she sang the title role in Leo Delibes’ opera Lakme during the Moscow Svetlanov Weeks festival. The same year she participated in a concert of “La voci della citta” in Milan. In 2009, she took part in a concert celebrating the 15th anniversary of the Reithalle in Munich and in the December Evenings festival at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow.
Lesnichaya made her debut at the Bolshoi Theater of Russia as the Queen of the Night in Mozart’s The Magic Flute and has also sung Ksenia in Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov at the Bolshoi. She was also a prize winner at the 2003 Irina Bogacheva Opera Singers Competition in St. Petersburg.
Oksana's full official biography can be found at the Bolshoi website here
She has toured with the Opera Centre in Russia and to Georgia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, France, Sweden and the Republic of South Africa and has appeared in the Centre’s performances at the Golden Prague festival in the Czech Republic and May Opera Evenings in Macedonia.
In 2000, Lesnichaya sang Fiordiligi in Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte at the Ludwigsburg Festival in Germany. In 2006, she took part in a staged version of Edison Denisov’s opera The Four Girls at Tchaikovsky Concert Hall under the baton of Gennady Rozhdestvensky and sang the soprano part in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra led by Vladimir Fedoseyev.
In 2008, she sang the title role in Leo Delibes’ opera Lakme during the Moscow Svetlanov Weeks festival. The same year she participated in a concert of “La voci della citta” in Milan. In 2009, she took part in a concert celebrating the 15th anniversary of the Reithalle in Munich and in the December Evenings festival at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow.
Lesnichaya made her debut at the Bolshoi Theater of Russia as the Queen of the Night in Mozart’s The Magic Flute and has also sung Ksenia in Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov at the Bolshoi. She was also a prize winner at the 2003 Irina Bogacheva Opera Singers Competition in St. Petersburg.
Oksana's full official biography can be found at the Bolshoi website here
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