21 December 2024 |
• Prize-winner at the 4th Boris Shtokolov International Vocal Competition (St Petersburg, 2014; 3rd prize)
• Prize-winner at the All-Russian Irina Bogacheva Young Opera Singers’ Competition (St Petersburg, 2005; 2nd prize)
• Prize-winner at the Moscow International Competition of Russian Romance Romansiada (2003; 2nd prize)
• Prize-winner at the 11th All-Russian Bella voce International Student Vocal Competition (Moscow, 2003; 2nd prize)
• Prize-winner at the 6th Sergei Rachmaninoff All-Russian Competition (Veliky Novgorod, 2003; 2nd prize and prize “For the best performance of a work by Rachmaninoff”)
Evgenia Muravieva was born in Leningrad. In 2008 she graduated from the Rimsky-Korsakov St Petersburg State Conservatory (class of Professor Irina Bogacheva). While a student Evgenia made her debut as Tatiana in Eugene Onegin at the Opera and Ballet Theatre of the St Petersburg Conservatory.
From 2007 to 2011 she was a soloist with the Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers. In 2009 she appeared at the Mariinsky Theatre as Pannochka in May Night, followed by the roles of the First Dame in Die Zauberflöte and the First Nymph in Dvořák’s Rusalka.
From 2010 to 2014 as a soloist with the St Petersburg Chamber Opera she performed the following roles: Tatiana (Eugene Onegin), Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus), Nedda (Pagliacci), Mimì (La Bohème), Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Ksenia (Boris Godunov) and Tosca.
In 2016 Evgenia debuted at the Komische Oper Berlin in the part of Tatiana (Eugene Onegin).
In August 2017 she made her Salzburg Festival debut as Katerina Ismailova in production of The Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (conductor Mariss Jansons, director Andreas Kriegenburg) and received great critical acclaim. In 2018 she returned to the Salzburg Festival as Liza in The Queen of Spades.
In the 2018–19 season she had successful debuts with the Opéra de Lyon as Margherita/Elena (Mefistofele) and with the Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse as Marietta (Die tote Stadt). She appeared at the Teatro alla Scala as Emma (Khovanshchina), sang Cio-Cio-San (Madama Butterfly) at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples and Nedda (Pagliacci) at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo.
In the 2019–20 season she appeared as Tatiana (Eugene Onegin) at the New National Theatre in Tokyo, sang the title role in Tosca at the Vienna State Opera and Tamara (The Demon) at the Opéra National de Bordeaux.
In February 2018 Evgenia Muravieva appeared at the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia as Liza in new production of The Queen of Spades (conductor Tugan Sokhiev, director Rimas Tuminas); in 2020 she took part in Tchaikovsky’s Mazepa concert version (conductor Tugan Sokhiev) as Maria.
Since 2021 she has been a soloist with the Mariinsky Theatre.
Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre:
Pannochka (May Night)
Natalia (The Oprichnik)
Emma (Khovanshchina)
Liza (The Queen of Spades)
Katerina Ismailova (The Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk)
Lyubka (Semyon Kotko)
Countess Rosina (Le nozze di Figaro)
First Dame (Die Zauberflöte)
Venus (Tannhäuser)
Gutrune (Götterdämmerung)
Giulietta (Les Contes d’Hoffmann)
First Nymph (Dvořák’s Rusalka)
Salome (Salome)
Nedda (Pagliacci)
Mimì (La Bohème)
Tosca (Tosca)
Tsaritsa Militrisa (The Tale of Tsar Saltan)
Her repertoire also includes: Leonora (Il trovatore), Liù (Turandot) and Micaëla (Carmen).