Anna Nechaeva (Soprano)
Biography
Born in Saratov. In 1996 she finished the Lysenko Poltava Musical College as a vocalist and entered the Saratov State Conservatoire. As a sophomore, she began working at the city’s philharmonic society. On her 5th year at the Conservatoire, Anna was offered to sing the part of Tatiana (Eugene Onegin) at the Saint Petersburg Conservatoire. Since 2003 Anna was a soloist with the Saint Petersburg Opera Company where she sang the following roles: Tatiana (Eugene Onegin), Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi), the title role in Puccini’s Suor Angelica and Madama Butterfly, Xenia (Boris Godunov). In 2008-11, she was a soloist with the Mikhaylovsky Theatre Company where her repertoire included Nedda(I Pagliacci), Tatiana (Eugene Onegin), the title role in Dvořák’s Rusalka, Rachel (Halévy’s La Juive).
In 2012, she made her debut at the Bolshoi Theatre, singing the role of Nastasya (The Enchantress). In the same year she became a soloist with the Bolshoi.
Repertoire
At the Bolshoi: Nastasya (Tchaikovsky’s The Enchantress) Iolanta (Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta) Liu (Puccini’s Turandot) Yaroslavna (Borodin’s Prince Igor) Elisabeth of Valois (Verdi’s Don Carlo) Micaela (Bizet’s Carmen) Soprano (Prokofiev’s The Ugly Duckling in the performance The Fables of the Vixen, the Duckling and Balda) Doña Anna (Dargomyzhsky’s The Stone Guest) Violetta (Verdi’s La Traviata) Mimi (Puccini’s La Boheme) Manon Lescaut (Puccini’s Manon Lescaut) Kupava (Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Snow Maiden) Olga Tokmakova (Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Maid of Pskov, in concert) Liza (Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades) Amelia (Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera)
Tours
At the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre she sang Liza (The Queen of Spades), Elisabeth (Tannhäuser) and Aida (Aida). In 2014 she appeared at the Mikhailovsky Theatre as Manon (Manon Lescaut) and debuted at the Latvian National Opera as Leonora (Il Trovatore). In 2015 she sang Nedda (I Pagliacci) at the Mikhailovsky Theatre, and performed the roles of Francesca (Francesca da Rimini) and Zemfira (Aleko) at the Théâtre de la Monnaie. In 2016 she performed the title part in Manon Lescaut by Puccini at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin. In July 2017, she sang the title part in Iolanta (Savonlinna), and Tatiana in Eugene Onegin concert performance on the Bolshoi Theatre Opera Company tour to Aix-en-Profence and Savonlinna (conductor – Tugan Sokhiev). In 2018, appeared as Polina in Prokofiev’s The Gambler new production of the Opera Vlaanderen, Gent (conductor Dmitri Jurowski, director Karin Henkel).
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