Zotova, Alexandra
No. 65
Voice type: Soprano
Country: Russia
Date of birth: 7 January, 1994
Alexandra Zotova currently studies at the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre in the class of Makvala Kasrashvili. She won the 6th International Singing Competition Margarita Landa and the 20th Moscow Chaliapin International Academic Solo Singing Competition, as well as received 2nd prize at the 15th VIVA-MUSIC International Competition of Classical Music. She has sung at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich–Danchenko Music Theatre in Moscow, the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory with the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra led by Alexander Rudin and at the Diaghilev Festival in Perm, and she has worked with Theodor Currentzis. In 2023 Alexandra made her role debut at the Vishnevskaya Opera Centre as Musetta (La bohème) and is going to perform Yniold (Pelléas et Mélisande) at Irkutsk Philarmonie. In 2024 she sang under the direction of Dmitri Jurowski on the stage of the Residence of the German Ambassador.
Competition Repertoire
Preliminary
Liszt: In Liebeslust
Rimsky-Korsakov: S podruzhkami po yagodu khodit’ – Snow Maiden’s aria from The Snow Maiden
Verdi: Tu puniscimi, o Signore – Luisa’s aria from Luisa Miller
Semi-final
Donizetti: Ah! tardai troppo… O luce di quest’anima – Linda’s recitative and aria from Linda di Chamounix
Mozart: Crudele?... Non mi dir – Donna Anna’s recitative and aria from Don Giovanni
Final
Puccini: Quando me’n vo’ soletta per la via – Musetta’s waltz from La bohème
Donizetti: Prendi, per me sei libero – Adina’s aria from L’elisir d’amore
Gounod: Je veux vivre dans le rêve – Juliette’s waltz from Roméo et Juliette