FULL Yulia Matochkina Recital St.Petersburg 2023
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Yulia Matochkina Recital
- Composer: various
- Libretto: various
- Venue & Opera Company: Mariinsky Theatre Concert Hall, St.Petersburg, Russia
- Recorded: December 20, 2023
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Yulia Matochkina
- Conductor:
- Orchestra: Anatoly Kuznetsov, PIANO
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Mariinsky Theatre
- Date Published: 2023
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Songs and romances by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Sergei Taneyev, Alexander Gretchaninov, Vasily Kalinnikov, Nikolai Tcherepnin, Valery Gavrilin, Georgy Sviridov, Mark Minkov, Pyotr Falbinov.
YULIA MATOCHKINA
Mezzo-soprano
• Prize-winner at the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition (Moscow – St Petersburg, 2015; 1st prize)
• Prize-winner at the 9th Rimsky-Korsakov International Competition for Young Opera Singers (Tikhvin, 2015; 1st prize)
• Prize-winner at the Competition of Competitions of Vocalists of the XXVI Sobinov Musical Festival (Saratov, 2013; 1st prize)
Yulia Matochkina was born in the town of Mirny (Arkhangelsk Region). Graduated from the Petrozavodsk State Glazunov Conservatoire (class of Professor Viktoria Gladchenko). Her operatic career has been constantly linked with the Mariinsky Theatre where she began as a student of the Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers (2009–2015) before becoming a lead soloist with the opera company proper (since 2015). The artist made her Mariinsky Theatre debut in Die Zauberflöte in 2009.
Yulia gained an international recognition after winning the Tchaikovsky Competition in 2015. She performed major parts at the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia (where she made her first appearance in 2018, portraying Carmen), the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Los Angeles Opera, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the festivals in Edinburgh, Verbier, Baden-Baden, the BBC Proms in London, Gergiev’s festivals in Mikkeli (Finland) and Rotterdam, the Festival Berlioz in La Côte-Saint-André (France). In the summer of 2019 Yulia made her debut at the Salzburg Festival, where she sang the role of Federica in a concert performance of Verdi’s Luisa Miller.
In the 2021–22 season the artist made her first appearance at the Opéra national de Paris (Marfa in Khovanshchina), the Metropolitan Opera (Maddalena in Rigoletto), the Teatro alla Scala (Ulrica in Un ballo in maschera) and the Arena di Verona Opera Festival (title part in Carmen; Verdi Opera Night with Plácido Domingo), as well as she portrayed Ulrica in Chicago’s concert performance of Un ballo in maschera conducted by Riccardo Muti and sang at the Staatsoper Hamburg (Federica in Luisa Miller), the Deutsche Oper Berlin (Princess Eboli in Don Carlo) and in Utrecht (Verdi’s Requiem). The 2022–23 season saw the singer’s debut as Azucena (Il trovatore) at the Opernhaus Zürich. In November 2022 she appeared as Princess Eboli at the Metropolitan Opera, in early 2023 Yulia performed the mezzo-soprano part in Verdi’s Requiem at the Dutch National Opera (Amsterdam), the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma and Baltimore’s Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall and the role of Ulrika under the baton of Riccardo Muti in Tokyo, in April of the same year she portrayed Ortrud (Lohengrin) at the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia, and in the summer of 2023 the artist made her debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, playing Azucena (under the baton of Sir Antonio Pappano) and Princess Eboli, and participated in a performance of Verdi’s Requiem conducted by Daniele Gatti at the Verbier Festival.