Teona Todua
soprano
© Olesya Dyatlova
This young soprano from Georgia studied piano in Donetsk (Ukraine), her home town, before training to be a singer at Ukraine's Peter Tchaikovsky National Music Academy in Kyiv. She won prizes at leading international singing competitions such as the 2020 Grandi Voci competition in Istanbul, the 2021 Wassyl Slipak competition for young singers in Lviv (Ukraine) and 2024 NEUE STIMMEN competition in Gütersloh. She furthered her studies at the »Dolora Zajick Institute for Young Dramatic Voices« in the USA in 2021 and Polish National Opera's Academy in Warsaw, run by Olga Pasichnyk, before joining the Académie de Opéra national in Paris. An artistic exchange organised by the »Lindemann Young Artist Development Program« took her to the Metropolitan Opera New York in 2023. She has enjoyed great success in concerts and operas throughout Europe.