Svetlana Shilova (Mezzo-soprano)
 In 1997, she graduated from St. Petersburg State Conservatoire (professor Konstantin Pluzhnikov). As a student worked in chamber musical theatre St. Petersburg Opera. From 1998, she was a soloist with Rimsky-Korsakov Opera and Ballet Theatre. She made her Bolshoi Theatre debut in 2002 in the role of Marfa (Khovanshchina).
Repertory
Spring (Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Snow Maiden)
Marta, Laura (Iolanta)
Xenia's Nurse (Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov)
The Fortune-teller (Prokofiev’s The Fiery Angel)
Olga (Eugene Onegin)
Polina (The Queen of Spades)
Sonyetka (Shostakovich’s The Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk)
Petrovna (Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride)
Princess Linetta (Prokofiev’s The Love for Three Oranges)
Matriosha, Mavra Kuzminichna (Prokofiev’s War and Peace)
Nanny, Female street vendor (Desyatnikov’s The Children of Rosenthal)
Alkonost (Rimsky-Korsakov's The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and of the Maiden Fevronia)
Also in repertoire:
Lyubasha (The Tsar’s Bride)
Iocasta (Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex)
Dido (Berlioz’s Les Troyens)
mezzo-soprano parts in Mozart’s Requiem, Verdi’s Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky Cantata.
Tours
She tours in Russia and abroad.
In 2006, she appeared at the Maryinsky Theatre in The Snow Maiden.
In the same year, she took part in a performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in Istanbul (conductor Alexander Rahbari ).
In 2007, she appeared at the Bonn State Opera, singing Khivrya in Mussorgsky’s Sorochinsky Fair (conductor Roman Kofman, director Tony Palmer) and Gertrude (Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel).
She took part in Chaliapin Opera Festival in Kazan and Irina Arkhipova presents Opera Festival in Chelyabinsk.
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