Recent and upcoming engagements

Anna’s recent and upcoming engagements include Manon in Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, Mimi in La bohème, Yaroslavna in Prince Igor, Micaela in Carmen (Bolshoi Theatre Moscow), Tatiana in Eugene Onegin for Festival d’Aix en Provence and Savonlinna Opera Festival, the title role in Iolanta for Savonlinna Opera Festival, Polina in The Gambler (Opera Vlaanderen), soprano part in Britten’s War Requiem at Staatsoper Berlin (conducted by Antonio Pappano), Liza in The Queen of Spades at Teatro San Carlo di Napoli, Tatiana in Eugene Onegin at Washington National Opera, Polish National Opera, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow and Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival, Japan.

She has a busy series of engagements in the upcoming seasons including house debut at the Metropolitan Opera, NY, and her return to La Monnaie, Brussels.

Operatic engagements

Manon in Manon Lescaut (Staatsoper Berlin and Mikhailovsky Theatre St Petersburg), Tatiana Eugene Onegin (Mikhailovsky St Petersburg, Perm, Bolshoi Theatre Moscow), Lisa The Queen of Spades (Stanislavsky Moscow, Bolshoi Theatre Moscow), Iolanta (Perm, Bolshoi Theatre Moscow, All together Opera St Petersburg International Festival), Lauretta Gianni Schicchi, Nastasya The Enchantress, Liu Turandot, Yaroslavna Prince Igor, Élisabeth de Valois Don Carlo (Bolshoi Theatre Moscow), Nedda Pagliacci, Katya Kabanova, Rusalka Dvorak (Mikhailovsky St Petersburg), Elizabeth Tannhäuser (Freiburg), Aida (Stanislavsky Moscow), Leonora Il trovatore (Riga)

Concert engagements

Soprano The Childhood of Christ Berlioz, The Bells Rachmaninov (Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra), Symphony No. 2 Resurrection Mahler (Perm)

Conductors

Fabio Mastrangelo, Alexander Lazarev, Teodor Currentzis, Peter Feranec, Daniele Rustioni, Mikhail Tatarnikov

Directors

Yuri Alexandrov, Liliana Cavani, Igor Kaniaev, Niels-Peter Rudolph, Alexander Titel, Adrian Noble, Kirsten Dehlholm

Awards

9th Worldwide Madame Butterfly Competition, Chisinau (2nd Prize, 2007), Golden Spotlight theatrical award nominee (Rusalka, 2010), Moscow Theatre Festival Award nominee (Tatiana Eugene Onegin, 2004)

Masterclasses

Elena Obraztsova, Makvala Kasrashvili, Liubov Orfenova, Gemma Visser, Badri Maisuradze, Harry Peters

Study

Saratov State Conservatory, M.V. Lysenko Music College, Poltava

She performed Tatiana in Eugene Onegin (Mikhailovsky St Petersburg, Perm, Bolshoi Theatre Moscow), Lisa in The Queen of Spades (Stanislavsky Moscow, Bolshoi Theatre Moscow), Iolanta (Perm, Bolshoi Theatre Moscow, All together Opera St Petersburg International Festival), Violetta in La traviata (Saint Petersburg Opera), Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi, Liu in Turandot, Yaroslavna in Prince Igor, Élisabeth de Valois in Don Carlo and Nastasya in The Enchantress (Bolshoi Theatre Moscow), Nedda in Pagliacci, Katya Kabanova, Dvorak’s Rusalka (Mikhailovsky Theatre St Petersburg), Manon in Manon Lescaut (Staatsoper Berlin and Mikhailovsky Theatre St Petersburg)​, Elizabeth in Tannhäuser (Freiburg), Zemfira in Aleko and Francesca in Francesca da Rimini (La Monnaie, Brussels), Aida (Stanislavsky Moscow), Leonora in Il trovatore (Riga) as well as the soprano parts in Berlioz’s The Childhood of Christ Oratorio, Rachmaninov’s The Bells Symphonic Poem (Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra), and Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 Resurrection (Perm).

In 2012, Anna made her debut at Bolshoi Theatre Moscow, singing the role of Nastasya in The Enchantress and the same year she became a soloist with the ensemble of the Bolshoi company.

Anna Nechaeva graduated from Saratov State Conservatory and took master classes with Elena Obraztsova, Makvala Kasrashvili, Liubov Orfenova, and Gemma Visser.

She is the laureate of Worldwide Madame Butterfly Competition in Chisinau (2nd Prize, 2007) and a nominee for the Golden Spotlight theatrical award for Rusalka (2010) and the Moscow Theatre Festival Award for Tatiana in Eugene Onegin (2004).