Competitions
Prize-winner at the II International Pechkovsky Opera
Singers´ Competition (St Petersburg, 1996, 1st prize)
Prize-winner at the II International Rimsky-Korsakov Competition
(St Petersburg, 1998, 3rd prize)
Prize-winner at the XI International Tchaikovsky Competition (Moscow,
1999, 4th prize)
Biography
Graduated from the St Petersburg
State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire in 1995
(class of Professor Levando), continuing as
a post graduate student in chamber singing (class of Professor Izotov).
Trained at the Stuttgart Academy of Music. Soloist with the Music
Theatre of the St Petersburg Conservatoire
from 1994 – 1995. Made her Mariinsky Theatre debut in 1996
as Siebel (Faust). Mariinsky Theatre soloist from the same year.
Repertoire includes:
Vanya (A Life for the Tsar)Ratmir (Ruslan and Lyudmila)Tsarevich
Fyodor (Boris Godunov)Konchakovna (Prince Igor)Olga
(Eugene Onegin)Polina, Milovzor (The Queen of Spades)Lel
(The Snow Maiden)Lumir (Mlada)Nezhata (Sadko)Lyubasha
(The Tsar´s Bride)Boy (The Legend of the Invisible
City of Kitezh)Jocasta (Oedipus Rex)Frosia (Semyon
Kotko)Sonya, Princess Maria Bolkonskaya (War and Peace)Testor
(Cephal i Prokris in concert)Fenena (Nabucco) Preziosilla
(La forza del destino)Princess Eboli (Don Carlo) Amneris
(Aida) Emelia (Otello) Ascanio (Benevento Cellini in
concert) Delilah (Samson et Delilah) Carmen (Carmen)
Nicklausse (Les Contes d´Hoffmann) Orfeo (Orfeo ed
Euridice in concert) Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro)Erda
(Das Rheingold, Siegfried)Flosshilde, Waltraute (Götterdämmerung)
Her concert repertoire includes cantata-oratorio works by Bach, Pergolesi,
Mozart, Verdi, Berlioz, Wagner, Mahler and Prokofiev.
Recordings
Boris Godunov with Maestro Valery Gergiev
Love of Three Oranges with Maestro Valery Gergiev
Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov and
Prokofiev´s Love for
Three Oranges (conducted by
Valery Gergiev with the Mariinsky
Theatre Orchestra) for Philips
Classics and Pergolesi´s
cantata Stabat Mater and Slave
Regina (conducted by Alexander Titov with the St Petersburg
Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra).
Other Highlights
In 2003 she performed Mahler´s Third Symphony with
the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Maestro Gianandrea Noseda
in Manchester and also with the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra
and Valery Gergiev at the NHK Hall in Tokyo.
Regular participant in the Road to Peace project and in 2004
she performed Mahler´s Second Symphony with the Hiroshima Symphony
Orchestra (Japan).
Has toured with the Mariinsky Opera Company to Europe, the USA, Latin
America and Japan.
Later in 2009, Ms. Boulycheva will sing Anna “Les
Troyens” with Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, Fundació de
la Comunitat Valenciana. |
