Marina Domashenko

Marina Domashenko (; born 1979) is a Russian operatic mezzo-soprano.

Domashenko was born into a musical family in the Siberian town Kemerovo. She graduated with honours from the Kemerovo School of Music where she studied piano and conducting, and from the Yekaterinburg Conservatory where she studied opera singing.

Career

The role of Olga in Tchaikovsky's ''Eugene Onegin'' at the Prague State Opera in 1998 was Domashenko's European debut. She returned the next season to sing Polina in Tchaikovsky's '' The Queen of Spades'', the title role in Bizet's ''Carmen'', and Dorabella in Mozart's ''Così fan tutte''. In 1999 she toured Japan with the Prague National Theatre with ''Carmen''.

Domashenko's performances in 1999/2000 included Puccini's ''Suor Angelica'' at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Olga in Tchaikovsky's ''Eugene Onegin'' in Moscow, Prokofiev's cantata ''Alexander Nevsky'' in Athens and at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, as well as ''Carmen'' in Cagliari and solo concerts in Greece.

Domashenko's American debut was in 2000 at the San Francisco Opera where she performed Delilah in Saint-Saëns' '' Samson and Delilah'' at a gala concert with Plácido Domingo. She returned to that house with ''Carmen'' in 2002 and sang that role at Opera Philadelphia. At the end of 2000, she sang Orlovski in ''Die Fledermaus'' and Polina at the Opéra Bastille in Paris, a role which she sang in 2002 at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna. Other roles in 2002 include Fenena in Verdi's ''Nabucco'' at the Vienna State Opera and the Deutsche Oper Berlin, a role she also performed at the Metropolitan Opera. In 2007 she sang in Francis Poulenc's '' La voix humaine'' and in Jules Massenet's ''Le portrait de Manon'' at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. In June 2010, she sang Carmen at the Royal Opera House, London, directed by Francesca Zambello.

Other roles include Lyubasha in Rimsky-Korsakov's '' The Tsar's Bride'' at the San Francisco Opera and the Zürich Opera House, Adalgisa in Bellini's ''Norma'', Maddalena in Verdi's ''Rigoletto'' at the Royal Opera House, Sesto in Mozart's ''La clemenza di Tito'' with the Washington National Opera in 2006.

Concert performances include Rossini's ''Stabat Mater'' at the Festival de Montpellier in 2000, Janáček's ''Glagolitic Mass'' with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Colin Davis at the Barbican Centre in London and in New York at the Lincoln Center, Mussorgsky's ''Songs and Dances of Death'' with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Riccardo Chailly at Avery Fisher Hall in New York; Khatchaturian's "Ode of Joy" at Carnegie Hall, Verdi's ''Requiem'' in the Abbey of Saint Gall and the Vienna State Opera.

Awards

She won first prizes at the 32nd International Antonín Dvořák Singing Competition in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, in 1997, and at the Concorso Internazionale per Giovani Cantanti d'Opera (International Competition for Young Opera Singers) "Gianfranco Masini" in Reggio Emilia, Italy, in 1999. In 2002 she won the Diva Award of Opera Philadelphia.

The recording of Verdi's ''Falstaff'' with Domashenko, conducted by Sir Colin Davis, won the Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording in 2006.

Recordings

*2001 ''Marina Domashenko'', opera arias, Philharmonia of Russia, Constantine Orbelian conducting, Delos DE3285
*2002 '' The Queens of Spades'' (Tchaikovsky), with Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Philharmonia of Russia, Constantine Orbelian conducting, Delos DE3289
*2003 "Ode of Joy" (Khatchaturian, 1956) on ''Spartacus'', Philharmonia of Russia, Constantine Orbelian conducting, Delos DE3328
*2003 ' / ' (Prokofiev), Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michail Jurowski conducting, Capriccio C67058
*2003 '' The Tsar's Bride'' (Rimsky-Korsakov) with Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Konstantine Orbelian, conducting
*2003 ''The Queens of Spades'' by Tchaikovsky, Gran Teatre del Liceu
*2003 ''Carmen'' (film), from the Arena di Verona, director: Franco Zeffirelli
*2004 ''Alexander Nevsky'' (Prokofiev), Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Frank Strobel conducting, Capriccio C71014
*2004 '' Raffaello'' (Anton Arensky, 1894), excerpts and other Arensky arias, Philharmonia of Russia, Constantine Orbelian conducting, Delos DE3319
*2006 ''Tchaikovsky Duets: Domashenko and Guryakova'', Philharmonia of Russia, Constantine Orbelian conducting, Delos
*2006 ''Falstaff'' (Verdi), London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis conducting ( Grammy 2006 winner)
*2006 ''Carmen'' (film), conducted by Daniel Barenboim, Rolando Villazón as Don José, Staatsoper unter den Linden"Carmen als Bühnenweihfestspiel"
review by Dieter David Scholz, Südwestrundfunk 2 (6 December 2004)
*2010 ''Opera Gala'' 35th Anniversary Opera Gala, a tribute to Delos founder, Amelia S. Haygood, Delos DE3395
*2010 '' Carmen: Duets & Arias'', with Andrea Bocelli, Bryn Terfel, Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France, Myung-whun Chung conducting, Decca

References

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* sings "Zachem ty?" from Rimsky-Korsakov's '' The Tsar's Bride'' with Dmitri Hvorostovsky

{{DEFAULTSORT:Domashenko, Marina
1979 births
Russian operatic mezzo-sopranos
Russian women opera singers
Grammy Award winners
People from Kemerovo
Living people