Olesya Golovneva
Soprano
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The Russian soprano Olesya Golovneva is back at Oper Frankfurt, where she sang for the first time in 2015 in the title role in Rusalka, which was followed by Mimì (La Bohème), Desdemona (Verdi’s Otello), Elisabetta (Don Carlo) and, during corona shutdown, in an online Christof Loy Tchaikovsky evening: Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt, to sing the title role in the first new production of Turandot here for many years. Recent highlights have included Silvana (La fiamma), Els (Der Schatzgräber) and Valentine (Les Huguenots) – all role debuts, at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Salome at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, Turandot at the Staatstheater in Wiesbaden and Theater Basel and Káťa Kabanova at the Hamburg State Opera. She also sang Tatjana in Eugene Onegin at places including De Norske Opera in Oslo, and Rusalka at the Teatro Real Madrid, the Palau de les Arts in Valencia and Semperoper in Dresden, a role for which she was nominated for the 2019 FAUST theatere prize. She works regularly at the Staatstheater in Wiesbaden, where she directed her first opera, Rusalka, in 2022/23. She also enjoys close relationships with the Deutsche Oper am Rhein (where roles have included Maria Stuarda, Gilda, Elisabetta, Luisa Miller, Donna Anna and Violetta) and Cologne Opera, where you can hear her as Turandot later this season. Recent concert work has included Rachmaninov’s The Bells in the Konzerthaus in Dortmund, Dvorak’s Te Deum in Utrecht and Amsterdam, with the WDR and Andrés Orozco-Estrada, the Musikverein in Vienna under Franz Welser-Möst and the Philharmonie and Konzerthaus in Berlin. Other leading conductors with whom Olesya Golovneva regularly works include Joana Mallwitz, Daniel Harding, Yoel Gamzou, Axel Kober, Marc Albrecht, Cornelius Meister, Carlo Rizzi, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Josep Pons and Erik Nielsen.