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Born in
St.Petersburg Marianna Tarasova graduated from the local conservatory
and took Master classes with Galina Vishnevskaia. She won many prizes in
international competitions, including first prizes in the International
Dvorak Competition in Karlsbad (1990), the Maria Caniglia Competition in
Italy (1992) and the ARD competition in Munich (1993).
In 1993
Valery Gergiev invited her to join the Mariinsky Theatre. She has toured
extensively with the company performing leading roles, particularly
Carmen, Preziozilla, Amneris, Konchakovna
(Prince Igor) and Liubov (Mazeppa).
Marianna
Tarasova has collaborated with such conductors as James Levine, Claudio
Abbado, Mariss Janssons, Yuri Temirkanov, Antonio Pappano, Vladimir
Jurowsky, James Conlon, Simone Young, Semen Bytchkov, Fabio Luisi and
such directors as Elijah Moshinsky and Francesca Zambello.
She has
appeared at the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Covent Garden,
Salzburg Festival, La Scala, Teatro Comunale in Florence, Teatro
Comunale in Bologna, Teatro Lirico in Cagliari, Netherlands Opera,
Monte-Carlo Opera, Graz Opera.
A busy
concert singer and recitalist, Marianna Tarasova has performed with the
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Abbado in Berlin, Salzburg, Paris
and in Japan, with London Philharmonic, Baltimore Symphony, the Russian
National Orchestra, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Rotterdam
Philharmonic and San-Francisco Symphony.
Recordings
are available on Philips Classics (Rimski Korsakov’s “Sadko” with Kirov
Opera),
excerpts from Mussorgsgy’s
Khovanshchina with the Berlin Philharmonic and Claudio Abbado on Sony
Classics, as well as Shostakovich's complete compositions for
mezzo-soprano with BBC.
Recent
and upcoming performances include Boris Godunov in Mannheim,
Rusalka at the Israel Opera, Aida in Tallinn, the opening of
the new festival “Baltic Seasons” with the St Petersburg Philharmonic,
Khovanschina at the Finnish National Opera, Cavalleria
Rusticana at the Welsh National Opera and Samson et Dalila at
the Israel Opera.
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