Zlata Bulycheva (Mezzo soprano)
• Prize-winner at the XI International Tchaikovsky Competition (Moscow, 1999, 4th prize) • Prize-winner at the II International Rimsky-Korsakov Competition (St Petersburg, 1998, 3rd prize) • Prize-winner at the II International Pechkovsky Opera Singers' Competition (St Petersburg, 1996, 1st prize)
Zlata Bulycheva was born in Petrozavodsk. She graduated from the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire in 1995 (class of Professor Iraida Levando), continuing as a post-graduate student at the Conservatoire (class of Professor Kira Izotova). She trained at the Stuttgart Academy of Music. Zlata Bulycheva has been a soloist with the Mariinsky Opera Company since 1996.
Her repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre includes: Vanya (A Life for the Tsar) Ratmir (Ruslan and Lyudmila) Amelfa the Housekeeper (The Golden Cockerel) Marfa (Khovanshchina) Konchakovna (Prince Igor) Boyarynya Morozova (The Oprichnik) Lel (The Snow Maiden) Lyubasha (The Tsar's Bride) Jocasta (Oedipus Rex) Princess Marya, Sonya (War and Peace) Preziosilla (La forza del destino) Princess Eboli (Don Carlo) Amneris (Aida) Emilia (Otello) Anna, Didon (Les Troyens) Carmen (Carmen) The Princess (Suor Angelica) Mezzo-soprano (stage version of Verdi's Requiem) Ascanio (Benvenuto Cellini, in concert) Marguerite (La Damnation de Faust) Dalila (Samson et Dalila) Idamante (Idomeneo, rè di Creta) Erda (Das Rheingold, Siegfried) Waltraute (Götterdämmerung) Geneviève (Pelléas et Mélisande)
Zlata Bulycheva's concert repertoire includes cantata-oratorio works by Bach, Pergolesi, Mozart, Beethoven, Verdi, Berlioz, Wagner, Mahler and Prokofiev.
Zlata Bulycheva has toured with the Mariinsky Opera Company in Europe, the USA, South America and Japan.
Her recordings include Musorgsky's Boris Godunov and Prokofiev's Love for Three Oranges (with the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev, Philips Classics).
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