Olga Peretyatko

Ольга Перетятько

Opera singer, soprano

Biography

Russian coloratura soprano.

Olga Peretyatko was born and raised in St. Petersburg. She graduated from the Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg Music College and the University of the Arts as a choral conductor, and began her musical career in the children's choir of the Mariinsky Theatre. She studied voice privately with Larisa Gogolevskaya. Later she moved to Berlin, where she graduated from the Berlin University of the Arts. From 2005 to 2007, she was a member of the opera studio at the Hamburg State Opera. She is a laureate of several prestigious international competitions: a prize at the Plácido Domingo Operalia competition (2007), second prize at the 'Debüt' competition in Bad Mergentheim (2006), third prize at the Ferruccio Tagliavini International Competition for Opera Singers in Deutschlandsberg, Austria (2004), and the International Belcanto Prize in Bad Wildbad, Germany (2005).

Her repertoire includes numerous virtuoso roles in operas by Handel, Mozart, Rossini, and Donizetti, including such rare roles as Desdemona in Rossini's 'Otello', as well as Elvira in Bellini's 'I puritani', Gilda in 'Rigoletto', Marfa in 'The Tsar's Bride', the four soprano roles in 'The Tales of Hoffmann', Leïla in 'Les pêcheurs de perles', Violetta in 'La traviata', and others.

She regularly performs at all the major international venues. She is a guest soloist at the Mariinsky Theatre, La Scala, the Metropolitan Opera, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Vienna State Opera, the Bavarian State Opera, the Berlin State Opera, the Paris Opera, the Zurich Opera, the Lausanne Opera, the Teatro Real in Madrid, and others. She has performed at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, the Salzburg Festival, the Aix-en-Provence Festival, and others.

She has recorded five solo albums for the Sony Classical label.