Ekaterina Kanevskaya (Mezzo soprano) Ekaterina Kanevskaya graduated from the Ural State Mussorgsky Conservatoire in 2000. In 2004, she joined the Mikhailovsky Opera. At the Theatre, she performed Berta in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, Orlofsky in Strauss’s Die Fledermaus, Marthe and Siébel in Gounod’s Faust, Zezilia in Kalman’s Silva, Larina and Olga in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, Dunyasha in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride, Fyodor in Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov, Konchakovna in Borodin’s Prince Igor, Milady in Alexander Tchaikovsky’s Les trois mousquetaires (productions by Stanislav Gaudasinsky). She also performed the vocal part of Medusa in Khachaturian’s ballet Spartacus. She participated in the St Petersburg première of Janáček’s Kát’a Kabanová (Feklusa) staged by Niels-Peter Rudolph. She performed Nanny in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin staged by Vasily Barkhatov. In 2012–2013, she participated in the concert performances of Bizet’s Carmen (Mercedes) under the baton of Vasily Petrenko and Puccini’s Manon Lescaut (madrigal) under the baton of Mikhail Tatarnikov.
Nowadays, at the Mikhailovsky Theatre she performs mezzo-soprano parts in the operas by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giuseppe Verdi, Pietro Mascagni, Giacomo Puccini, Antonín Dvořák, Leoš Janáček, Engelbert Humperdinck, and Boris Asafiev.
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