Voice type: Soprano
Country: Ukraine
Date of birth: 7 July, 1989
Ms Ushanova started her music studies at Lugansk Regional College of Culture and Arts in choral conducting and vocal studies. In 2015, she graduated with an MA as opera singer at the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine. In the same year, she began a teacher training course, which she has been pursuing ever since. Since 2013, she has been a regular guest in prestigious concert halls, for example at the National Philharmonic of Ukraine, the Lviv Philharmonic Hall or the North Bohemian Theatre of Opera and Ballet. She has sung soprano parts in numerous operas, such as the Second witch in Dido and Aeneas, Flora in La traviata, Bastienne in Bastien et Bastienne, the female protagonist in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice as well as Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, Fulvia in Rossini’s La pietra del paragone and Tatiana in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin.
Competition Repertoire
Preliminary
Liszt: Der Fischerknabe (F. S chiller)
Mozart: In quali... Mi tradi quell'alma ingrata – Donna Elvira’s Aria from Don Giovanni
Massenet: Il est doux, il est bon – Salomé’s Aria from Hérodiade
Semi-final
Gluck: Divinites du Styx – Alceste’s Aria from Alceste
Verdi: Tacea la notte – Leonora’s Aria from Il trovatore
Final
Mozart: E Susanna non vien!.. Dove sono i bei momenti – Almaviva’s Aria from Le nozze di Figaro
Gounod: Jewel Song (Ah! je ris de me voir si belle en ce miroir) – Marguerite’s Aria from Faust
Tchaikovsky: Tatiana's Letter Scene (Puskay pogibnu ya, no prezhde // Let me die, but first) – Tatiana’s Aria from Eugene Onegin