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Anastasia Souporovskaja was born in Leningrad. She began her serious musical studies already in her high school. In 1991 she entered the St. Petersburg Academy of Music and studied there in the opera class, performing at the St. Petersburg Musical Theatre connected to the Academy where she sang among others the parts of Olga in Yevgeny Onegin, Palina in Pique Dame, Dido in Dido and Aeneas by Purcell and The Angel in The Demon by Rubinstein.

Ms. Souporovskaja completed her studies in 1996 but was already since 1995 engaged by maestro Valeri Gergiev to the Marinsky Theatre as young soloist, where she sang among others Flora in La Traviata, Page in Salome. In 1996-97 she completed her studies at the International Mozart Academy in Poland with the Swedish mezzo-soprano Kerstin Mayer.

Anastasia Souporoskaja has participated successfully in international singing competitions in Austria, Poland and Slovakia. After the Belvedere Competition in Vienna in 1996 she was engaged by the Deutsche Oper Berlin (1997-99) where she performed among other roles Third Lady in the Magic Flute, Gaea in Richard Strauss’ Daphne and Grimgerde in Wagner’s Die Walküre.

Anastasia Souporovskaja is now based in Switzerland, where she is contracted at the Sankt Gallen Opera.  She sings frequently in concerts all over the Europe. Besides Switzerland and Germany Ms. Souporovskaya has visited as an opera- and concert soloist in Italy (Ravello festival), England, France, Poland, Slovakia and Czech Republic and Finland. She sang among others the Jewish Songs by Shostakovitsh at the Théâtre de Champs-Elysées in Paris, Dalila in Saint-Saëns’ Samson et Dalila in Biel and Friedrichshafen (2000), visited at the Tampere Opera, Finland in the role of Olga in Tchaikovsky’s Eugen Onegin (2001) and in the same role in Beijing with the China National Orchestra conducted by maestro Muhai Tang singing alongside with Galina Gorchakova and Vasily Gerelo. In 2001 she sang Carmen in Plowdiw, Bulgaria and Maddalena in Rigoletto at the Mondschein Festival in Germany. In Spain she toured as Fenena in Nabucco and returned to Finland as the soloist of Alexander Nevsky Oratory by Prokofiev.  Her future engagements include Erda in Wagners Rheingold in Mexico City, Azucena in Verdi’s Il trovatore and La Campana Sommersa by Respighi at the Montpellier Opera.

Anastasia Souporovskajas concert program includes also Das Lied von der Erde by Mahler, Tshaikovsky’s Moscow-cantata, Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevski, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis and Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater.

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