NORWEGIAN OPERA OSLO
Tchaikovsky - Eugene Onegin - Tatiana
Oct 19/23/25/29, Nov 2/8/13/15

ORQUESTRA FILARMONICA DE JALISCO
Strauss - Salome - concert version - title role
Jan - Feb 2026

OPER FRANKFURT
Puccini - Turandot - Turandot
PREMIERE May 1
May 23/29, June 4

COLOGNE OPERA
Puccini - Turandot - Turandot
May 27, June 2/7

Biography

The 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 Prize FAUST for her interpretation of Rusalka at the Cologne Opera. Her enthusiastically celebrated performance as Silvana in Respighi's La Fiamma, with which she started the previous season at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, is now available on DVD.

Olesya Golovneva opens the 2025/26 season with her signature role of Tatjana in Christof Loy's production of Eugene Onegin at the Norske Opera Oslo. Later in the season, she can be seen in two roles in which she recently made her successful debuts: she sings Salome in concert performances of the opera with the Orquestra de Jalisco in Mexico and as Turandot at both the Cologne Opera and the Oper Frankfurt obligated.
Among the important engagements of the past seasons are her celebrated role debuts as Silvana ( La Fiamma ) at the Deutsche Oper Berlin (Loy-Rizzi), as Salome at the Grand Théâtrre de Genève (Mundruzco-Saraste), as Turandot at the Staatstheater Wiesbaden (Kerck-Gamzou) and as Katia Kabanova at the Staatsoper Hamburg, as well as Valentine alongside Juan Diego Florez in Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots and the soprano part in Christian Spuck's choreography of the Verdi Requiem at the Deutsche Oper Berlin; her triumphant house debut as Rusalka at the Teatro Real Madrid and at the Palau de les Arts Valencia, as well as her directorial debut with this opera at the Staatstheater Wiesbaden, as well as her debut in the major soprano roles of Puccini's Trittico at the same house; furthermore, Desdemona in Otello alongside Roberto Saccà at the Oper Frankfurt and alongside Gregory Kunde at the Staatstheater Wiesbaden; Tatjana in Eugene Onegin in productions of the Staatsoper Hamburg, the Finnish National Opera Helsinki, the Cologne Opera and the Staatstheater Wiesbaden, where she was also heard as Vitellia in Clemenza di Tito . The artist has a special connection with the Deutsche Oper am Rhein and has enjoyed great success there as Maria Stuarda, Gilda, Elisabetta, Luisa Miller , Donna Anna and Traviata . There is also a regular collaboration with the Oper Cologne, which presented the soprano as Natascha in War and Peace , as Anna Bolena, Lucia, Tatjana and Vitellia. She has sung Traviata in Dresden, Munich, Prague, at the Wiesbaden May Festival, in Düsseldorf, Cologne, Bonn and Antibes. Other important Verdi roles are Luisa Miller , with which she made her debut at the Malmö Opera, Simone -Amelia, with which she made her debut at the Opéra de Marseille and Gilda, with which she performed at the Zurich Opera and the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Also at the Malmö Opera, the artist sang her first Mimi in La Bohème and was able to build on her success in the role at the Oper Frankfurt where she was also successful as Rusalka and Don Carlo -Elisabetta.
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.
Olesya Golovneva comes from Pskov in Russia and completed her studies in St. Petersburg and at the University of Music in Vienna with Prof. Robert Holl in the subject of Lied and Oratorio with distinction. She is a prize winner of the N. Rimskyj-Korsakow Competition and the International Vocal Competition’s - Hertogenbosch.
2025/26
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