OLGA TRIFONOVA

OLGA TRIFONOVA started her career at the stage of the Mariinsky while being a first year student of the Conservatoire  in vocal class of professor Gagen Valentina Nikolaevna. And also thanks to the fact that in competition of Rimsky Korsakov, the voice of Olga noticed Larisa Gergieva, in the future CEO of the Academy of Young Singers of the Mariinsky Theatre, as well as the founder of the international competition of young singers, named Rimsky Korsakov Olga was invited to the Mariinsky. Working with Larissa Gergieva as a coach  and leading pianist of the  Mariinski theater, OLGA TRIFONOVA often performed in various concerts and participated in trips where Larissa Gergieva representing young novice singers. In 1994 at the I International Competition of Young Singer by  N.A.Rimsky-Korsakov OLGA TRIFONOVA got «Hope» diploma as the youngest and the most promising participant. Having brilliantly performed the aria of the Queen of the Night at the Gala concert, at the age of 20 Olga got invited to the Mariinsky theatre where she first sang in the performances of «Le Nozze di Figaro»(Barbarina),and next  part also «Il Barbiere di Seviglia»(Rosina), «Die Zauberflote»(Konigin der Nacht),«Betrothal in a Monastery» (Luisa). By the time she graduated from the Conservatoire in 1998, due  to assiduous  studying  and  fruitful  cooperation  with experienced coaches  and  stage  directors, and thanks to doubtless  victories  at various  competitions, OLGA TRIFONOVA had become one of the leading soloists of the Mariinsky,having performed  such  difficult  parts as  Strawinsky’s “The Nightingale” (Le Rossignol), Ludmila at “Ruslan and Liudmila” by M.Glinka, Amina at “La Sonnambula” by Bellini, Snow Maiden at the “Snow Maiden” by N.Rimsky-Korsakov. OLGA TRIFONOVA was awarded «the Debut of the Year» diploma in 1996 for the part of the Nightingale and performed it with Valery Gergiev at the Lincoln Center (New York), where the critics praised her youth, artistry and virtuosic vocal. Later Olga will participate in recording of this opera with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Robert Craft in London (1998). She also sang Ludmila with V.Gergiev at the Mariinsky and Metropolitan Opera, and after this successful debut was invited to the Metropolitan again to perform in the «Queen of Spades», with Placido Domingo (German). In 1999 especially for OLGA TRIFONOVA the Mariinsky staged the «Snow Maiden», and for many years she remained the lead.