Agunda Kulaeva (Mezzo-soprano)
Biography
In 2000, she graduated from the conducting-chorus department of the Rostov State Conservatoire. In 2005, she graduated from the vocal faculty. In the same year, she completed her studies at Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre, where she performed the following roles: Siebel (Gounod’s Faust), Lyubasha (Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride), Maddalena (Rigoletto).
In 2005-2014 she was Novaya Opera Company soloist.
She made her Bolshoi Theatre debut in 2005 in the premiere production of War and Peace singing the part of Sonya.
In 2014 she took part in the production of The Tsar’s Bride, singing the role of Lyubasha.
In November 2014 she joined the Bolshoi Theatre Opera Company.
Repertoire
At the Bolshoi:
Sonya (War and Peace)
Lyubasha (The Tsar’s Bride)
The Snow Queen (Banevich’s The Story of Kai and Gerda)
Marina Mnishek (Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov)
Olga (Eugene Onegin)
Countess, Polina, Governess (The Queen of Spades)
Lyubasha, Dunyasha (Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride)
Lehl (Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Snow Maiden)
Arsace (Rossini’s Semiramide)
Carmen (Carmen)
Dalila (Saint-Saens’s Samson et Dalila)
Ratmir (Glinka’s Ruslan and Ludmila)
Fenena (Nabucco)
Page (Lohengrin)
Lola (Cavalleria Rusticana)
Zita (Gianni Schicchi)
mezzo-soprano part in Verdi’s Requiem
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