Young soprano Antonina Vesenina graduated as a vocalist from Voronezh State Academy of Arts. At the opera studio she performed the role of Marfa in The Tsar’s Bride. She took part in master classes with Elena Obraztsova, Gegam Grigoryan and Larissa Gergieva.
In 2018/19 she sang Queen of the Night in Semperoper Dresden and Staatsoper Hamburg.
Performances at the Mariinsky Theatre: Queen of Shemakha in The Golden Cockerel, Gilda in Rigoletto, Maria Mironova in The Captain’s Daughter (concert), Mademoiselle Silberklang in Der Schauspieldirektor, Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte, Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Clorinda in La Cenerentola (concert) and Countess Olga Sukarev in Fedora (concert).
In the season of 2017/18 Ms Vesenina reprised the role Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte at Deutsche Oper am Rhein.
In 2016/17 she sang Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte (Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Komische Oper Berlin, Mariinsky Theatre) and the premiere of The Golden Cockerel (Queen of Shemakha) at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. Her other performances at the Mariinsky that season include Clorinda in La Cenerentola, Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia and Queen of Shemakha in The Golden Cockerel.
In 2011 she became the soloist of the Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers. On the stage of Mariinsky theatre has performed such parts as Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte (2014) and Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia (2014/premiere), Queen of Shemakha in Golden Cockerel (2015/premiere) and Clorinda in Cinderella (2015), as well as in concerts by the Academy on tour in Russia, Great Britain, Italy, Spain, France, Austria.
In the season 2010/2011 Antonina Vesenina joined the theatre «St. Petersburg Opera» where she performed the roles of Gilda in Rigoletto, Genovieffa in Suor Angelica and Lucia in Benjamin Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia in addition to performing in concerts.
Her repertoire also comprises Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos, Olympia in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Oscar in Un ballo in maschera, Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor, Swan-Bird in The Tale of Tsar Saltan, and arias and romances by Russian and European composers.
Antonina Vesenina is the laureate of XV Chaikovsky competition (2015) and several national and international competitions.
Repertoire
Bellini – I Puritani – Elvira – Mariinsky (premiere) 2024
Bellini – Beatrice di Tenda – Beatrice di Tenda – Mariinsky (concert) 2020
Berlioz – Benvenuto Cellini – Teresa – Mariinsky (premiere) 2021
Meyerbeer – Les Huguenots – Marguerite de Valois – Mariinsky, Bolshoi (premiere) 2024
Delibes – Lakme – Lakme – Mariinsky (premiere) 2021
Offenbach – Les Contes d’Hoffmann – Olympia – Mariinsky (premiere) 2022
Massenet – Cendrillon – La Fee – Mariinsky (concert) 2018
Mozart – Die Entfuhfung aus dem Serail – Konstanze – Mariinsky (premiere) 2023
Mozart – Don Giovanni – Donna Anna – Mariinsky 2022
Mozart – Idomeneo – Ilia – Mariinsky (premiere) 2022
Mozart – Die Zauberflöte – Königin der Nacht – Diaghilev Fest (Perm)(premiere) 2024
Mozart – Die Zauberflöte – Königin der Nacht – Theater Dortmund (premiere) 2022
Mozart – Die Zauberflöte – Königin der Nacht – Theater St. Gallen (premiere) 2022
Mozart – Die Zauberflöte – Königin der Nacht – Oper Köln (premiere) 2020 – 2021
Mozart – Die Zauberflöte – Königin der Nacht – Deutsche Oper Berlin 2020
Mozart – Die Zauberflöte – Königin der Nacht – Staatsoper Hamburg 2020
Mozart – Die Zauberflöte – Königin der Nacht – Semperoper Dresden 2019 – 2020
Mozart – Die Zauberflöte – Königin der Nacht – Deutsche Oper am Rhein 2014 – 2021
Mozart – Die Zauberflöte – Königin der Nacht – Komische Oper Berlin 2016 – 2021
Mozart – Die Zauberflöte – Königin der Nacht – Mariinsky 2014 – 2023
Mozart – Die Zauberflöte – Königin der Nacht – Chekhov fest. Moscow/Komische Oper Berlin 2017
Mozart – Il Re Pastore – Elisa – Mariinsky (concert) 2018
Mozart – Der Schauspieldirektor – Mlle Silberklang – Mariinsky 2017
Donizetti – Linda di Chamounix – Linda – Mariinsky (concert) 2019
Donizetti – Don Pascuale – Norina – Mariinsky (premiere) 2022
Rossini – Il Barbiere di Siviglia – Rosina – Mariinsky (premiere) 2014
Rossini – Il Viaggio a Reims – Contessa de Folleville – Mariinsky 2023
Rossini – Il Barbiere di Siviglia – Rosina – Bolshoi Theatre (premiere) 2018 – 2024
Rossini – Il Barbiere di Siviglia – Rosina – Shalyapin Fest (Kazan) 2022
Rossini – La Scala di Seta – Giulia – Mariinsky (concert) 2018
Verdi – Rigoletto – Gilda – Mariinsky 2018
Verdi – Rigoletto – Gilda -Komische Oper Berlin 2017
Verdi – Rigoletto – Gilda – «St. Petersburg Opera» Theatre 2010
Stravinsky – Nightingale -Nightingale – Mariinsky 2024
Glinka – Ivan Susanin – Antonida – Mariinsky 2019
Rimsky-Korsakov Golden Cockere l- Queen of Shemakha – Deutsche Oper am Rhein (premiere) 2016
Rimsky-Korsakov Golden Cockere l- Queen of Shemakha – Mariinsky (premiere) 2015
Rimsky-Korsakov Snow Maiden – Snow Maiden – Mariinsky 2019
Rimsky-Korsakov – Koshey the Immortal – Prin. Unearthly-Beauty – Warsaw National Philarmonic 2018
Rimsky-Korsakov – Koshey the Immortal – Prin. Unearthly-Beauty – Mariinsky 2022
Rimsky-Korsakov – The Tale of Tsar Saltan – Swan Princess – Mariinsky 2022
I.Strauss – Die Fledermaus – Adele – Mariinsky (premiere) 2020
Education/Experience
Since 2011 – Soloist, Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers, Mariinsky Theatre (St. Petersburg)
2010 – 2011 Soloist, «St. Petersburg Opera» Theatre, (St. Petersburg)
2005 – 2010 N. Savitskaya, Voronezh State Academy of Arts (Voronezh, Russia)
Festivals
2015 Festival de l’Art Russe, Cannes, France.
2015 Orfeo Music Festival, Vipiteno, Italy.
2014 Opera Without Borders, Krasnodar, Russia
2014, 2015 Stars of the White Nights Festival, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Competitions
2016 – 3 rd Prize, 51re Concours International de Chant de Toulouse, Toulouse, France.
2015 – 4 th Prize, XV International Tchaikovsky Competition, Moscow – St. Petersburg, Russia.
2014 – Grand-Prix, I International Young Opera Singers Competition “Opera without Borders”, Krasnodar, Russia.
Recording
Rimsky-Korsakov, Koshey the Immortal, Princess (Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra/L.Borowicz)
Collaboration
Antonina Vesenina has collaborated with well known conductors: Valery Gergiev, Pavel Smelkov, Zaurbek Gugkaev, Christian Knapp, Mikhail Sinkevitch, Pavel Petrenko, Giuliano Betta, Axel Kober, Wen-Pin Chien, Marc Piollet.