Kolesnikova, Nadezda
No. 32
Voice type: Soprano
Country: Russia
Date of birth: 22 September, 1982
Nadezda Kolesnikova was accepted by the Moscow State University of Culture and Arts (Russia) from where she graduated in 2008. In 2010 she participated in several masterclasses of Monserrat Caballé. Since 2011 she has been studying under the guidance of Benedetta Pichioli and Leonardo de Lisi at the Statale di Musica Luigi Cherubini.
Her repertoire includes Snegurochka in Rimsky-Korsakov's The Snow Maiden, Marfa in The Tsar's Bride, Lyudmila in Glinka's Ruslan and Lyudmila, Antonida in A Life for the Tsar, Tata in Eugene Onegin by Tchaikovsky, Zerlina and Donna Elvira in Mozart's Don Giovanni, Susanne in Le nozze di Figaro, Adeli in Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss and Amore in Orfeo ed Euridice by Gluck.
Competition Repertoire
Preliminary
Liszt F.: I' vidi in terra angelici costumi (F. Petrarca)
G. Donizetti: Linda di Chamounix - Ah tardai troppo... O luce di quest'anima
G. Verdi: Rigoletto - Caro nome
Semi-final
G. Verdi: La traviata - È strano! È strano…
G. Puccini: La bohéme - Sì, mi chiamano Mimì
Final
G. Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor - Regnava nel silenzio
V. Bellini: I Capuleti e Montecchi - Eccomi in lieta vesta… O quante volte
Ch. Gounod: Faust - Je voudrais, bien savoir… II était un Roi de Thule… Ah! Je ris de me voir