Yevgeniya Smolyanina

Education

1999 - 2003 - Music School at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Solo Singing

2002 - 2008 - Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Solo Singing

2008 - 2011 - Postgraduate studies at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Solo Singing

Teachers

• Irina Maslennikova. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1957), Professor, head of the educational organization of students of the Moscow Conservatory; member of the Union of Theater Workers, member of the Academy of Performing Arts and Pedagogy, member of the Union of Writers and Translators. She was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1976), the Order of Friendship (2007).
• Svetlana Zalizniak. Professor, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, Head of the Department of Solo Singing at the Ural Conservatory.
• Lidiya Yatsynich (Chernykh) People's Artist of the Russian Federation, Professor at the Moscow State Conservatory.

Work Experience

2005 - 2007 – Soloist of the Moscow State Academic Philharmonic, Russia.

2008 - 2012 – Soloist of the Opera Wroclaw, Poland.

2013 - 2014 – Soloist of the Lublin Philharmonic, Poland.

2013 - 2015 – Soloist of the Ekaterinburg Opera and ballet Theatre, Russia.

2014 - 2015 – Senior teacher of the Ural State Conservatory (assistant of Professor S. Zalizniak).

2015 - 2016 – Teacher of the Academic Singing Department at the Lemeshev Music School, Moscow, Russia.

2016 - 2018 – Teacher and Soloist at the “Kazakhconcert”, Almaty, Kazakhstan.

2018 - present – Teacher of the Vocal Art Department at the Kazakh National Conservatory after Kurmangazy, Almaty, Kazakhstan.

2020 - present – Soloist of the Kazakh National Opera and Ballet Theatre after Abay.

 

Competitions

• Recipient of a Diploma “Best Female Voice” at the International Moscow Competition of Russian Romance Performers “Romansiada”, 2002.
• Laureate of the Student Festival “Festos”, 2004.
• Scholarship-holder of Dmitri Shostakovich Foundation, 2007.
• Laureate of the Grand Prix at the VII International F. Shalyapin Competition, Yalta, 2007.
• Laureate of the regional competitions in the city of Miass, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia.

Festivals

• “Boldin autumn” Festival, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, 2004.
• “Days of Russian Classic” Festival, Poznań, Poland, 2008.
• Festival of “Classic” Forum, Moscow, Russia, 2009.
• Summer Festival in the Roman amphitheaters in Xanten. Part of Anna in Verdi’s “Nabucco” of Opera Wroclaw Production, Germany, 2009.
• 57th Festival à Wiltz. Part of Anna in Verdi’s “Nabucco” of Opera Wroclaw Production, Luxembourg, 2009.
• Summer Festival in the Roman amphitheaters in Xanten. Part of Turandot of Opera Wroclaw Production, Germany, 2010.
• 58th Festival à Wiltz. Part of Turandot of Opera Wroclaw Production, Luxembourg, 2010.

Repertoire

Zemfira ("Aleko" by S. Rachmaninoff)

Yaroslavna ("Prince Igor" by A. Borodin)

Kupava ("The Snow Maiden" by N. Rimsky-Korsakov)

Gorislava ("Ruslan and Lyudmila" by M. Glinka)

Tatiana, Larina ("Eugene Onegin" by P. I. Tchaikovsky)

Liza ("The Queen of Spades" by P. I. Tchaikovsky)

Marina Mniszech ("Boris Godunov" by M. Mussorgsky)

Rosina ("Le nozze di Figaro" W. A. Mozart)

Pasqualina ("Hry o Marii" ("The Plays of Mary") by B. Martinu)

Mimi ("La Boheme" by G. Puccini)

Turandot ("Turandot" by G. Puccini)

Madama Butterfly ("Madama Butterfly" by G. Puccini

Sandman, the Sleep Fairy ("Hänsel und Gretel" by E. Humperdinck)

The Dyer's Wife ("Die Frau ohne Schatten" by R. Strauss)

Halka ("Halka" by S. Moniuszko)

Antonia ("Les Contes d’Hoffmann" J. Offenbach)

Stella ("Chopin" by G. Orefice)

Amelia ("Un ballo in maschera" by G. Verdi)

Anna ("Nabucco" by G. Verdi)

Giovanna d'Arco ("Giovanna d'Arco" by G. Verdi)

Kundry ("Parsifal" by R. Wagner)

Senta ("Der fliegende Holländer" by R. Wagner)

Desdemona ("Otello" by G. Verdi)

M. Tariverdiyev" The Waiting"

 

Discography

Academic Music School at the Moscow State Conservatory. P. I. Tchaikovsky: 110 year. 2CD. Giacomo Puccini, Manon Lescaut, Aria Manon. ® “Zvuk” Agency, 20022002 ZV10-02270/1 ZV10-02270/2

 

Chorus and Orchestra of the Wrocław Opera, Conductor – Eva Michnik. Giaocomo Orefice, Chopin Opera, Stella’s part. 2010 DUX Recording Producers, Morskie Oko 2, 02-511Warsaw,Poland,e-mail:dux@dux.pl

 

Chorus and Orchestra of the Wrocław Opera, Conductor – Eva Michnik. Director - Waldemar Zawodzinski. Jacques Offenbach, Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Antonia’s part, 2011