Russian-born, Miss Ekaterina Bakanova graduated music school in
accordion, piano and singing and graduated in Vocal Studies from Gnesin
Music Academy in Moscow. She won several major international singing
competitions like Bilbao International Singing competition (Bilbao,
Spain), Hans Gabor Belvedere (Vienna, Austria), AsLiCo (Como, Italy) ,
Bella Voce (Moscow, Russia) before becoming a soloist at Novaya Opera. Her
win at the Giuseppe de Stefano competition in Sicily and the Maria
Caniglia competition in Sulmona led her to professional debut in Italy,
where she studies privately with Gabriella Ravazzi in Genoa, and where
since 2007 she has established a very successful career. She is a winner
of Giulietta Prize as a best female singer at Arena di Verona Opera
Festival 2015 and was nominated as a Best Young Female Opera Singers 2016
by Opera Awards in London.
Ekaterina Bakanova performs regulary on international opera stages like
Arena di Verona, La Fenice Opera House, Teatro Regio di Torino, Teatro
Massimo di Palermo, NCPA in Beijing, Semperoper Dresden, ROH Covent
Garden. The artist collaborates with conductors such as Maurizio Benini,
Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Stefano Montanari, Nello Santi, Placido Domingo,
Karel Marc Chichon, Jan Latham Koenig, Mung Wung Chung and Yutako Sado;
and with directors such as Franco Zeffirelli, Robert Carson, Calixto
Bieto, Richard Eyre, Henning Brockhaus, Hugo de Ana and Roberto Andó.
Recently she performed: Carmen at La Fenice in Venice (under Myung Whun
Chung); La Traviata in Venice, Florence, Trieste, Peralada, Lisbon,
Dresden, Moscow; La Rondine (new production) in Florence; a concert
version of Carmen in Versailles with Jean-Christophe Spinosi, with whom
Mrs Bakanova also performed as Almirena in Handel's Rinaldo on tour in
Brest, Lyon, Versailles, Moscow, Vienna and in Vivaldi's Gloria and
Handel's Dixit Dominus in Paris (TCE); Don Giovanni (Donna Anna) in Tel
Aviv and in Padua; Le Nozze di Figaro (Susanna) in Verona (Teatro
Filarmonico); Il Bravo (Violetta) by Mercadante in Wexford; Les pêcheurs
de perles at the Liceu in Barcelona and Dortmund; Turandot (Liù) and Les
Contes d'Hoffmann in Beijing; Shostakovich's Symphony no.14 with the
Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg; Maria Stuarda in Lisbon; La
Traviata at the Teatro Real de Madrid, in Tokyo and in Cagliari; Mahler's
Symphony no.4 with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI in Turin
under Fabio Luisi; Les pêcheurs de perles in Oviedo; Les Contes d'Hoffmann
(Antonia) in Zurich; L'Angelica (title role) by Porpora at the Festival
della Valle d'Itria in Martina Franca under Federico Maria Sardelli;
Fidelio (Marzelline) at La Fenice in Venice under Myung Whun Chung for the
season's opening; her debut as Nedda in Pagliacci at the Opernhaus in
Zurich.
Her recent engagements: Il Viaggio a Reims in Dresden; Die Fledermaus a
St Gallen; Symphony nr. 14 at the Philharmonie in Paris; Moïse et Pharaon
(Anaï) à Lyon; La Traviata at the Volksoper in Vienna and Die Zauberfloete
at the Regio in Turin; Les pêcheurs de perles in Zurich; La Traviata in
Bejing, Vienna (Volksoper) and Oviedo.
Plans include: Roberto Devereux in Geneva; Edgar in Nice and Così fan
tutte in Metz.
May 2024