Oxana Shilova

• Prize-winner at the Stanislaw Moniuszko International Competition in Warsaw (1^st prize, 2007)
• Prize-winner at the III International Elena Obraztsova Competition (1^st prize, 2003)
• Prize-winner at the International Opera Singers' Competition in Geneva (2^nd prize and special prize for best performance of a French work, 2003)
• Prize-winner at the V International Rimsky-Korsakov Young Opera Singer's Competition in St Petersburg (2002)

Oxana Shilova was born in Russia. In 2000 she graduated from the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire, and became a soloist with the Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers in 1999.  In 2007, Ms. Shilova became a state soloist of the Mariinsky Theatre. 

Roles performed at the Mariinsky Theatre include:
Kseniya (Boris Godunov)
Swan Princess (The Tale of Tsar Saltan)
Tsarevna of Wondrous Beauty (Kashchei the Deathless, in concert)
Golden Cockerel (The Golden Cockerel)
Louisa (Betrothal in a Monastery)
Madame Cortese (Il viaggio a Reims)
Norina (Don Pasquale)
Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor)
Mrs Alice Ford (Falstaff)
Leïla (Les Pêcheurs de perles, in concert)
Ascagne (Les Troyens)
Frasquita (Carmen)
Ilia (Idomeneo, re di Creta)
Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro)
Zerlina (Don Giovanni)
Despina (Così fan tutte)
Pamina (Die Zauberflöte)
Klingsor's Flower Maiden (Parsifal)
Naiad (Ariadne auf Naxos)
Guard of the Entrance to the Temple (Die Frau ohne Schatten)
Belinda (Didon et Enée) 

The singer's repertoire also includes the roles of Prilepa (The Queen of Spades), Adina (L'elisir d'amore), Lucrezia (I due Foscari), Gilda (Rigoletto) and Violetta (La traviata). 

Oxana Shilova has toured with the Mariinsky Opera Company throughout Russia and abroad, also performing recitals with Larisa Gergieva in Belgium, Finland, the USA, France and Great Britain. She took part in a production of Shostakovich's operetta Moscow, Cheryomushki at the Opéra de Lyon, in 2006 she sang the role of Lucrezia (Lucrezia Borgia) at De Nederlandse Opera and in the 2008-2009 season she appeared in a new production of Rossini's opera Il viaggio a Reims, performing the role of Madame Cortese (Reims, Montpelier, Avignon, Bordeaux, Toulouse and Marseilles). 

Recently, Ms. Shilova performed Kseniya “Boris Godunov” with Dallas Opera and Zerlina “Don Giovanni” at the Mariinsky.   Future contracts include the Cockerel “Golden Cockerel” with Den Nye Opera.