Olesya Petrova
Mezzo-soprano Olesya Petrova graduated in 2008 from the Rimski-Korsakov State Conservatory in Saint Petersburg, where her teacher was Irina Bogacheva. She won several prizes at Moscow’s Galina Vishnevskaya International Artists Competition (2006) and International Tchaikovsky Competition (2007).
She was also a finalist in the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition (2011) and she won first prize and the audience prize in the Paris Opéra Compétition (2012). Petrova is now much in demand as an and concert singer. She recently sang the role of Ulrica in Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera at both The Metropolitan Opera in New York and the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
Also recently, she sang Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with the Orquesta Sinfónica de RTVE, and Verdi’s Requiem with the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo under Fabio Luisi. In 2013 she sang the same work with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, conducted by Mariss Jansons.