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SopranLaura Meenen  |
Biographie / biography
Laura Meenen began the 2018/19 season at the Mariinsky Theater as a soloist in the young opera ensemble.
Her repertoire includes the role of Charmion from Massenet's CLEOPATRE, the second lady from Alexander Tchaikovsky's Schachkönig, Liponka in Sagdiev's Repka and Arminda in Mozart's La Finta Giardiniera.
In 2018 she appeared in the role of Nedda in the new production of Leoncavallo's I Pagliacci at the Rostock Volkstheater.
She also took part in the first “Sea Symphony” festival in Sochi under the direction of conductor Anton Lubchenko and director Hans-Joachim Frey and interpreted the role of Lola from Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticama.
In the autumn of that year she participated in the International Opera Workshop 2018 - Festival of Young Voices in Switzerland, where she interpreted excerpts from Handel's Giulio Cesare as Cleopatra, from Verdi's Traviata as Violetta and as Nedda from Mascagni's I Pagliacci.
During the 2016/17 season, Laura Meenen took part in various new productions of the Mariinsky Theater and Valery Gergiev's summer festival "The White Nights". In the summer of 2017 she was critically acclaimed as Contessa Almaviva in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro with the young Vienna Philharmonic in Vienna (Konzerthaus), Graz (Konzerthaus), Salzburg (Odeion) and Schloss Thalheim (a project of the Angelika Prokopp Summer Academy of the Vienna Philharmonic). .
Laura Meenen completed her postgraduate studies at Saint Petersburg Conservatory with Prof. T. Novitschenko in 2017 and completed her master's degree at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna with Prof. KS Elena Filipova and Niels Muus in 2019.
During her studies she sang the role of Euridice in Gluck's Orphee, the role of Tatyana in Eugen Onegin and the role of Iolanta in Tchaikovsky's opera of the same name, as well as the role of Contessa in Le Nozze di Figaro and the role of Vitellia in La Clemenza di Tito by Mozart.
She was a finalist and won special prizes in international competitions such as the Competizione dell'Opera 2017, the Fransisco Viñas Competition 2018 and the Ottavio Ziino Competition 2018.
She is the winner of Rimsky-Korsakov competition 2016, Pavel Lisizian competition 2016, Art Vocal competition 2015 and Sviridov competition 2014.
From 2009 to 2011, Laura Meenen was a fellow of the Gartow Foundation (Germany).
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