Stage Door - Victoria Yarovaya

Victoria Yarovaya

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Victoria Yarovaya was born in Moscow and began studying music at the age of 5 as a soloist in a well known children's choir, directed by Victor Popov. Winner of many competitions, she was awarded a scholarship from the New Names Foundation.
She graduated from the Academic Music College at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory as a pianist, going on to study at the Opera Centre under Galina Vishnevskaya. She attended master classes under Riccardo Muti, Mauro Trombetta, Mimi Coertsi and Irina Bogachova. Victoria Yarovaya was finalist at the “Competizione dell’Opera” International vocal competition of the Italian opera, she was Mercedes Viñas extraordinary prizewinner as a young singer at the Francisco Viñas International vocal competition.
Mrs. Yarovaya already collaborated with conductors as: Marco Boemi, Bruno Campanella, Giuliano Carella, Andrew Davis, Antonino Fogliani, James Gaffigan, William Lacey, Ian Latham-Koenig, Alessandro de Marchi, Fabio Mastrangelo, Enrique Mazzola, Trisdee Na Patalung, Kirill Petrenko, Michael Pletnev, Donato Renzetti, Corrado Rovaris, Alexander Rudin, Ilyich Rivas, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Vassily Sinaisky, Alberto Zedda and Dmitry Yurovsky.
In 2009 she improved her vocal skills at “Accademia Rossiniana” in Pesaro under Alberto Zedda and was invited to sing Marchesa Melibea in Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims, she performed this role again in Trento, afterwards with the Fondazione Pergolesi Spontini in Jesi she appeared as Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia staged by the director Damiano Micheletto, and in different Opera houses in Italy. Victoria Yarovaya has been a member of the ensemble at the Kolobov Novaya Opera Theatre in Moscow, where she has appeared as Dunyasha in Tsar’s bride and as Ines in Il Trovatore; at the Great Hall of the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory she performed the role of Zulma in L’Italiana in Algeri with the Russian National Orchestra under Alberto Zedda. After her successful debut at the “Accademia Rossiniana” she was invited in August 2010 to sing a principal role in an early Rossini opera Demetrio e Polibio at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, after that she sang Tisbe in La Cenerentola at the Glyndebourne Festival.
Among her past engagements it is worth mentioning: Angelina in La Cenerentola in Moscow; Laura in Iolanta in Vienna (Theater an der Wien); recital at the Moscow Novaya Opera Theatre (with music by Haendel, Rossini, Donizetti and De Falla), where she also appeared as Olga in Eugene Onegin; again Siveno/ Demetrio in Demetrio e Polibio at the Teatro di San-Carlo in Napoli; Ernestina in L’occasione fa il ladro at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro; title role of Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel with the Glyndebourne Festival on tour; Bach’s Magnificat and Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang with the “Musica Viva” chamber orchestra under Alexander Rudin, at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall (Moscow); Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia with Mussa Djalil Tatar State Opera and Ballet Theatre (Kazan) and also on tour with an opera company in the Netherlands; Dvorak's Requiem Mass with the Russian National Orchestra at the Great Hall of the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory under Mikhail Pletnev.
In the past seasons she appeared as Dido in Dido and Aeneas at the Moscow Novaya Opera Theatre; the title role in La Cenerentola with great success at Scottish Opera in Glasgow and on tour in Aberdeen, Inverness and Edinbourgh and also at the Opéra de Rouen. She again performed the role of Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia in Kazan and at Novaya Opera Theatre in Moscow and another recital with music by Vivaldi, Handel. Most recently she performed the role of Suzuki in Madama Butterfly at the Lille Opéra and at the Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg; she made her debut in Rossini in Wilbad where she performed the role of Falliero in Bianca e Falliero; again at the Rossini Opera Festival for the Messa di Gloria under maestro Donato Renzetti besides Juan Diego Flórez, Jessica Pratt and Mirco Palazzi; Romeo in I Capuleti e i Montecchi at the Moscow Novaya Opera Theatre; she made her debut at the Opera in Florence as Isabella in L’Italiana in Algeri under Bruno Campanella.
Moreover she was Zulma in L’Italiana in Algeri and gave a recital (G.Handel, V. Bellini, G. Rossini, P. Tchaikovsky) at Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse; Demetrio in Rossini’s Demetrio e Polibio and Calbo in Rossini’s Maometto II in Wildbad; Dorabella in Mozart’s Così fan tutte in the As.Li.Co circuit; Isabella in L’Italiana in Algeri in Rennes and on tour in France; Pippo in Rossini’s La gazza ladra in Bari and Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia at Finnish National Opera in Helsinki and at Mussa Djalil Tatar State Opera and Ballet Theatre (Kazan); Ljubava in Rimskij-Korsakov’s Sadko in Gent and also gave the recitals in Antwerp and Gent (N.Rimsky – Korsakov, S. Rachmaninov); Isaura in Rossini’s Tancredi in Marseille (concert version); Fenena in Verdi's Nabucco in Moscow, Lille and Dijon; Juno in Handel's Semele in Munchen; Zomira in Ricciardo e Zoraide and Melania in La Riconoscenza at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro; Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Isabella in L'Italiana in Algeri in Santiago (Chile); Petite Messe Solennelle in Moscow; Mozart's Requiem in Ravenna; La Cenerentola in Las Palmas. At the Novaya Opera in Moscow she took part in Il Barbiere di Siviglia; Eugene Onegin (Olga); Nabucco (Fenena); Cenerentola and Madama Butterfly (Suzuki).
Her discography includes: G. Rossini's Demetrio e Polibio (DVD) – Siveno /Rossini Opera Festival 2010; G. Rossini's Bianca e Falliero (CD/Naxos) – Falliero /Rossini in Wildbad – Belcanto Opera Festival 2015; G. Rossini Demetrio e Polibio (CD/Naxos) – Siveno / Rossini in Wildbad – Belcanto Opera Festival 2016; G. Rossini Maometto II (DVD/Naxos) – Calbo / Rossini in Wildbad – Belcanto Opera Festival 2017.
Plans include Ermione (Andromaca) and "Il vero omaggio" at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro.
August 2024