Olga Peretyatko

Olga Peretyatko
Olga Peretyatko, 2007
Born (1980-05-21) May 21, 1980
Leningrad, Russia
Occupation Opera singer (soprano)
Website www.olgaperetyatko.com

Olga Peretyatko (Russian: Ольга Перетятько; born 21 May 1980 in Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg) is a Russian operatic soprano. As a child Peretyatko sang in the children's choir of the Mariinsky Theatre. As a student of the Hamburg Opera Studio she received the second prize at Operalia Competition (2007), an event sponsored by tenor Plácido Domingo.

Career

Her repertory includes operas from Handel and Mozart to Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss. A participant at the Accademia Rossiniana in Pesaro, she has regularly sung at the Rossini Opera Festival: Corinna and Contessa di Folleville (Il viaggio a Reims, 2006), Desdemona (Otello, 2007),[1] Giulia (La scala di seta, 2009), Aldamira (Sigismondo, 2010), and the title role in Matilde di Shabran (2012). In 2013 she sang during the Mozartwoche in Salzburg. In 2014, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Elvira in Bellini's I puritani.[2]

Peretyatko gained international attention as Stravinsky's Rossignol in Robert Lepage's production that premiered in Toronto in 2009, then presented at the Aix Festival in 2010 and subsequently at the Opéra de Lyon, the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York and Netherlands Opera in Amsterdam. She achieved great success in her role debuts as Adina in L'elisir d'amore in Lille, in the title role of Lucia di Lammermoor at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, as Gilda in Rigoletto at La Fenice in Venice, as well as at the Festival Avenches. In 2013 and 2014, Peretyatko's commitments included the Mozart Weeks, Salzburg Festival (Giunia in Lucio Silla), debuts at the Vienna State Opera, Zürich Opera House (Rigoletto), the Berlin State Opera and La Scala in Milan (Marfa in Die Zarenbraut), and performances at the Deutsche Oper Berlin (Adina in L'elisir d'amore).

In 2015, Peretyatko debuted to rave reviews as Violetta in La traviata at the Opéra Lausanne, followed by a new production of the same title at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden. She returned to the Vienna State Opera for I puritani, to La Scala in Milan for Rossini's Otello, to the Metropolitan Opera in New York for Rigoletto, along with debuts at the Teatro Regio in Turin in I puritani, at the Tivoli in Copenhagen and at La Monnaie in Bruxelles in L'elisir d'amore and at the Teatro Real in Madrid in Rigoletto.

In 2017, she sang the main role of Leila in Wim Wender’s take on Bizet’s Les Pecheurs des Perles, under musical direction of Daniel Barenboim.

Peretyatko has won several awards in international competitions such as Operalia, the opera competition organized by Plácido Domingo, where she won second prize, and she also recently received in Italy the important recognition of the Premio Franco Abbiati della Critica Musicale Italiana.

Peretyatko also performed for more than 600,000 people at Le Concert de Paris on 14 July 2014 for the Bastille Day celebrations by the Eiffel Tower.

Personal

Peretyatko is married to the conductor Michele Mariotti, who led the Matilde di Shabran performances in Pesaro.

Discography

Notes

  1. ↑ A role she also sang in Lausanne (2010). See Scott, Bruce. "An Overshadowed Original: Rossini's Otello". NPR World of Opera. May 7, 2010
  2. ↑ "Allowing a Puritan to Marry for Love – I puritani Revisits the English Civil War by Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times, 18 April 2014
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