Matrenina, Anna

Voice type: Mezzo-soprano

Country: Russia

Date of birth: 29 August, 1992

Anna Matrenina graduated as a choir conductor from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory in 2016 with distinction. From 2014 to 2016 she worked as a choir singer at the Moscow State Academic Children’s Musical Theater.

In 2016 she began studying operatic singing at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden. After successfully completing her Bachelor’s degree, she now studies Master’s and has already attended several master classes such as: International Summer Academy at the Mozarteum (Salzburg) by Prof. Lorraine Nubar, Belcanto by Peter Berne, “Schumann, Myrthen” by KS Prof. Olaf Bär and Lucja Zarzycka.

Since December 2018 Anna Matrenina has been engaged by the Dresden State Operetta as a guest soloist. She portrayed Third boy in Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” and an Art student in “One Touch of Venus” by Kurt Weill. The mezzo-soprano gained her first major stage experience during her Master’s course in the university production of “Alcina”, where she could be heard as Bradamante in April/May 2021.

Since May 2021 she has been singing in the solo quartet in “Die Entführung aus dem Serail” at the Theater Chemnitz. In September 2021 she became a finalist of the International Anton Rubinstein Competition (Düsseldorf, Germany).

 

Competition Repertoire

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Semi-final

Final