Larissa Yudina

Possessed with lighting fast and accurate coloratura, soprano Larissa Yudina has been an audience favorite since her arrival at the Mariinsky Theatre in 1998. Ms. Yudina is a prize winner of the Diaghilev Opera competition (1998), the Rimsky-Korsakov competition (1998, 2000) and the Elena Orbraztsova competition (2005). Ms. Yudina was also a diploma recipient from the Russian Ministry of Culture for performances at the Mariinsky Theatre. In 2006, Ms. Yudina was nominated for a “Golden Mask” (best female role) Russia’s most important theatre prize for Contessa di Folleville in “Il viaggio a Reims.”

Ms. Yudina has been a soloist of the Mariinsky Theatre since 1998. Her repertoire includes Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Olympia (Les contes d’Hoffmann), Queen of Shemakha (The Golden Cockerel), the Nightingale (Le Rossignol), Gilda (Rigoletto), the Bird (Siegfried), Zerbinetta (Adriane auf Naxos), Amina (La Sonnambula), the Queen of the night (Die Zauberflöte), Konstanze (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Nornia (Don Pasquale), and Musetta (La Boheme).

In 2006 Ms. Yudina will appear in a DVD production of the Bastille Opera (Paris) Il viaggio a Reims. Ms. Yudina will sing three performances of Leila in Les Pêcheurs de Perles at Seattle Opera January 2009 and is currently touring with the Mariinsky Theatre through out the world in Il viaggio a Reims.