Olga Makarina
(United States/Russia)


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Metropolitan Opera Soprano

Olga teaches in:
  • English
  • Russian

Course Focus:

  • Bel Canto and Italian Operas
  • "Behind the curtains" - the practical issues of Opera production everyone needs to know
  • Stage Presentation
  • The importantce of Body Language



Born in Archangel, Russia, Metropolitan Opera soprano Olga Makarina, made her first New York appearances at New York City Opera as Lucia di Lammermoor and has performed there as Gilda in Rigoletto , Konstanze in Mozart’s Abduction from the Seraglio and Olympia in Les Contes d’Hoffmann . Other roles in Ms Makarina’s repertoire include Ilia in Idomeneo (Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival), Violetta in La Traviata ( Kirov Opera) and Eudoxie in La Juive (Opera Orchestra of New York) . Ms Makarina has also appeared as Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos with the Minnesota Orchestra and in Orff’s Carmina Burana as well.

Olga Makarina appeared twice at the Bard Festival’s Franz Liszt Commemoration in an opera gala singing scenes from Meye rbeer’s Robert le Diable and Les Huguenots as well as the final scene of Norma and then as soloist in the Grand Messe of Franz Liszt. In the fall of 2006, she took on the demanding role of Elettra in Mozart’s Idomeneo at the Metropolitan Opera with James Levine conducting. She sang the role of Gilda in both the Met in the Parks and during the house season and Elvira in I puritani. At Opera Pacific she was Adina in the Jonathan Miller production of Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore . In November 2007 she sang Be llini’s Norma in a new production at the National Theater Prague, the title role in Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia at the Slovak National Opera in Bratislava, Adina in Palm Beach, Lucia in Warsaw and performed in recital with Yefim Bronfman. She sang Marfa in Rimsky - Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride with Olga Borodina with Opera Orchestra of New York at Carnegie Hall in October 2008 and returned to the Metropolitan for Gilda, Manon, Thais and Lucia in the 2008 - 09 season. In 2009 - 10 she will be Antonia in Les Contes di’Hoffmann and Violetta. During the 10 - 11 season she returned to the Met for Gilda, Lucia and Antonia and recently added Mozart’s Donna Elvira and Vitellia plus the title roles of Anna Bolena and Maria Stuarda of Donizetti to her Met assignments.

In 199 7, Olga Makarina returned to Russia to debut at the Kirov Opera as Lyudmila in Glinka’s Ruslan and Lyudmila . In October 1999, she sang her first Pamina in Mozart’s Die Zauberflote in a series of special gala performances conducted by Eve Queler and the Ope ra Orchestra of New York at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Temple of Dendur. Her repertoire at the Metropolitan Opera during recent seasons has included Gilda, Violetta, Eudoxie, Elvira, Rossignol and Lucia. She also performed concerts and solo recitals in Tokyo and Nagoya, Japan and sang the opening night gala of the Cesky Krumlov Festival with the Brno Philharmonic in Czech Republic that was televised in Eurovision.

In recent se asons Ms Makarina returned to Palm Beach Opera as Elvira in Puritani, a role she also sang in Spain at La Coruna and at the Metropolitan. She was the Princess in Respighi’s Bella Dormente at Spoleto USA repeated with exquisite success at the Lincoln Center Festival in 2005, and opened the Rome Opera’s 2005 - 06 season in November as Amina in La Sonnambula , returned there in February 2006 as Gilda in Rigoletto. Rome’s Messaggero praised her ‘pure and beautiful phrasing’ and “melancholy expression,’. A success ful debut at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires as Mimi in La boheme came in April 2006; Mimi was also the role of her debut at Mexico City’s Teatro Bellas Artes opposite tenor Fernando de la Mora. In 2008 she was Norma at the National Theater in Prague and Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia at the National Opera in Bratislava as well as Lucia at Warsaw’s Grand Theater.

A CD of Italian Opera Arias featuring Ms Makarina was released By Romeo Records and was cited by Opera News as ‘exquisite’ and Fanfare magazine as ‘a revelation of bel canto style.’ A second CD dedicated to Mozart’s motet ‘Esultate Jubilate’, a concert aria and operatic arias from Don Giovanni , Abduction from the Seraglio , Die Zauberflote and Le nozze di Figaro was released in spring 2003 and a rec ital of songs by Liszt, Tchiakovsky, and Rachmaninov was released in May 2004.


More about Olga Makarina:
http://www.olgamakarina.com/

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