NORSKE OPERA OSLO
Tchaikovsky - Eugene Onegin - Tatiana
Oct 19/23/25/29, Nov 2/8/13/15 - 2025
DEUTSCHE OPER BERLIN
Schreker - The Treasure Diggers - Els
Jan 30; Feb 7, 12 - 2026

OPER FRANKFURT
Puccini - Turandot - Turandot
PREMIERE May 1, 2026
May 23/29, June 4
COLOGNE OPERA
Puccini - Turandot - Turandot
May 27, June 2/7

Biography

Russian soprano Olesya Golovneva, already named Best Singer of the Year for her performances as Anna Bolena and Luisa Miller, was nominated for the German Theatre Award FAUST for her interpretation of Rusalka at the Cologne Opera. Her enthusiastically received portrayal of Silvana in Respighi’s La Fiamma, with which she opened the previous season at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, is now available on DVD.

Olesya Golovneva opens the 2025/26 season in one of her signature roles, Tatiana in Christof Loy’s production of Eugene Onegin at Den Norske Opera Oslo. Later in the season, she will appear in two roles in which she recently made successful debuts: she will sing Salome in concert performances of the opera with the Orquestra de Jalisco in Mexico, and she is engaged as Turandot at both the Cologne Opera and the Frankfurt Opera.
Important engagements of recent seasons include her acclaimed role debuts as Silvana (La Fiamma) at the Deutsche Oper Berlin (Loy–Rizzi), as Salome at the Grand Théâtre de Genève (Mundruczó–Saraste), as Turandot at the Staatstheater Wiesbaden (Kerck–Gamzou), and as Katia Kabanova at the Hamburg State Opera. She also performed Valentine alongside Juan Diego Flórez in Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots, and sang the soprano part in Christian Spuck’s choreography of Verdi’s Requiem at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
She made her triumphant house debut as Rusalka at the Teatro Real Madrid and at the Palau de les Arts Valencia, and later directed this opera for the first time at the Staatstheater Wiesbaden, where she also debuted in the major soprano roles of Puccini’s Il Trittico. Other notable performances include Desdemona in Otello, opposite Roberto Saccà at the Frankfurt Opera and Gregory Kunde at the Staatstheater Wiesbaden; Tatiana in Eugene Onegin in productions at the Hamburg State Opera, Finnish National Opera Helsinki, Cologne Opera, and Staatstheater Wiesbaden, where she also appeared as Vitellia in La clemenza di Tito.
The artist maintains a particularly strong relationship with the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, where she has celebrated major successes as Maria Stuarda, Gilda, Elisabetta, Luisa Miller, Donna Anna, and Violetta (La Traviata). She also collaborates regularly with the Cologne Opera, which has presented her as Natasha in War and Peace, Anna Bolena, Lucia, Tatiana, and Vitellia.
Her interpretation of La Traviata has taken her to Dresden, Munich, Prague, the Wiesbaden May Festival, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Bonn, and Antibes. Further important Verdi roles include Luisa Miller, which she debuted at the Malmö Opera, Simone-Amelia, with which she made her debut at the Opéra de Marseille, and Gilda, which she has sung at the Zurich Opera and the Deutsche Oper Berlin. At the Malmö Opera, she also sang her first Mimì in La Bohème, a success she repeated at the Frankfurt Opera, where she has also been heard as Rusalka and Elisabetta (Don Carlo).
In concert, Olesya Golovneva was most recently heard with Rachmaninov's The Bells in the Konzerthaus Dortmund, in Beethoven's 9th Symphony in Lausanne, in Dvorak's Te Deum in Utrecht and Amsterdam, with the WDR with Andrés Orozco-Estrada and in the Vienna Musikverein under Franz Welser-Möst.
Recordings of the artist currently include Iolanta with Dmitri Kitajenko as CD and Luisa Miller and La Boheme as DVD of the Malmö Opera.
Born in Pskov, Russia, Olesya Golovneva completed her studies in St. Petersburg and at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, where she graduated with distinction under Prof. Robert Holl in Lied and Oratorio. She is a prizewinner of the Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Competition and the International Vocal Competition 's-Hertogenbosch.
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