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Biographie / biography
Born in Leningrad, mezzo soprano Julia Gertseva studied singing, piano and choral conducting at the Conservatory in her hometown. She was engaged by the Mussorgsky Theatre in St.Petersburg, a Company she left in 2003 to follow an international career.
In 2002 she made her Italian debut at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice as Vavara in Katja Kabanova. She sang Ulrica at Deutsche Oper Berlin, Santuzza in Cape Town and Joan in Tchaikovsky’s Maid of Orleans in Palermo. She took part in the Berlin AIDS Gala conducted by Christian Thielemann.
The following seasons she had her Paris debut with the Orchestre National de France with the role of Cecri in Alaleona´s Mirra conducted by Juraj Valcuha. She sang in Prokofiev’s Alexander Newsky in Catania, Charlotte in Werther at the Teatro Comunale Bologna, Carmen at La Scala, Milan and at the Hamburg Staatsoper, Berlioz’ Romeo et Juliette at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam conducted by Sir Colin Davis, Beethoven´s 9th symphony conducted by Myung Whun Chung in Rome and on tour, Fenena in Nabucco at the Vienna Staatsoper, as well as Polina in Tchaikovsky’s Pique Dame at La Scala, Milan.
Between 2006 and 2011 she sang the title role in Carmen conducted by Georges Prêtre at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome and at the Semperoper in Dresden, Laura in La Gioconda in Catania, Carmen at the Teatro Regio in Turin, Fenena at the Teatro Comunale Bologna, Suzuki at the Chorégies Festival in Orange, Carmen in Valencia conducted by Lorin Maazel, Preziosilla in La Forza del destino and Carmen at the Teatro Communale in Florence, as well as Eboli in Don Carlo in Tel-Aviv, three productions under the direction of Zubin Mehta, Dalila at the Teatro Comunale Bologna and Santander with the Comunale conducted by Eliahu Inbal, Tigrana in Puccini’s Edgar at the Teatro Regio in Turin and Verdi’s Requiem with the Oslo Philharmonic conducted by Fruhbeck de Burgos.
In 2009/10/11 she sang Marina in Boris Godunov in Venice´s La Fenice and at Teatro Comunale Firenze, cond. Semyon Bychkov, Carmen in Tokyo as well as in Modena, Piacenza, Ferrara and Ravenna, Polina in Pique Dame at the Teatro Regio Turin, and took part in Opera galas with the Teatro la Fenice conducted by John Fiore in the first two seasons of Abu Dhabi Classics.
She also sang Dalila in Samson et Dalila in Liège, Carmen at Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, Venus in Tannhäuser at Teatro La Scala, conducted by Zubin Mehta.
2011/12 : Herodiade in Massenet´s opera in Antwerpen as well as Verdi Requiem with Frühbeck de Burgos in Copenhague, Amneris, Carmen and Santuzza in St Petersburg as well as Carmen at the Royal Opera in Oman (prod Gianni Quaranta).
2012/2013 : Marina in Boris Godunov at Teatro Real Madrid and Ulrica (Ballo in Maschera) at Teatro Regio Parma; Verdi Requiem with Oslo Philharmonic, Amneris in Aida in St-Petersburg.
2013/14 she appeared at the Maggio Musicale in Florence in Prokofievs The love for three Oranges (Princess), in Budapest Wagner Festival as Venus in Tannhäuser, in Paris for the first recording of Saint-Saens Les Barbares, in St Petersburg as Liubasha in Rimsky-Korsakov´s Tsars Bride.
2014/2015 : Marfa in Khovancina at Flanders Opera, Ulrica at Teatro Comunale Bologna, Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky in Florence cond. Zubin Mehta.
