After a successful career in Italian repertoire, Maria Ghulegina excitedly added German operas to her vast repertoire. Some of her future debuts include operas by Richard Wagner.
Maria Ghulegina is considered one of the leading dramatic sopranos in the world and the only singer who has performed main roles in sixteen new productions at La Scala including “Manon Lescaut”, “Tosca”, “Un ballo in Maschera”, “MacBeth” etc.
Ghulegina has performed the main roles in “Aida”, “Turandot”, “Tosca”, “Norma”, “MacBeth”, “Nabucco”, “Andrea Chénier”, “The Queen of Spades”, “Cavalleria Rusticana” and other operas over 165 times at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
Proclaimed by critics as the “Queen of Opera”, she often performs at the most important opera theaters around the world such as the Vienna Staatsoper, the Mariinsky theatre, the Bavarian Staatsoper, “Deutsche Oper” Berlin, “Teatro Liceu”, “Covent Garden”, “Opera Bastille”, “Teatro Colon”, Bolshoi theater etc.
Dubbed the “Russian soprano with Verdi in her veins“, she’s the bearer of many prizes and awards among which the 2009 “Premio Puccini”, the “Giovanni Zenatello” award, the “Maria Zamboni” golden medal, a golden medal from the Osaka festival, the 2001 “Bellini” award, the “Arte e Operosita nel Mondo” Milano award etc.
For her social activity, she was awarded the “Saint Olga” order: the highest honor of the Russian Orthodox church.
Ghulegina is an honorary member of the International Paralympic committee board and a global ambassador of good will at UNICEF.
Her future plans include a new production of “Vespri siciliani“ at the Mariinsky theater, “Aida” in Amsterdam as a part of a stadium tour together with Placido Domingo as well as recitals all over the world including ones at Carnegie Hall, with the Berlin philharmonic, at the Moscow conservatory’s Great Hall and at fifteen other places.
