Albina Shagimuratova |
Albina Shagimuratova
Albina Shagimuratova was born in Tashkent. Graduated from the Kazan Musical College named after I. V. Aukhadeeva as a choral conductor and entered the Kazan State Conservatory. N. G. Zhiganova. From the third year she transferred to the Moscow State Conservatory. P. I. Tchaikovsky, in the class of Professor Galina Pisarenko. Graduated with honors from the conservatory and assistantship-internship.
Honorary graduate of the youth opera program at the Houston Grand Opera (USA), in which she studied from 2006 to 2008. At various times she took lessons from Dmitry Vdovin in Moscow and Renata Scotto in New York.
During her years of study in Moscow, she was a soloist of the Moscow Academic Musical Theatre. K. S. Stanislavsky and Vl. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko, on whose stage she performed the parts of the Swan Princess in The Tale of Tsar Saltan and the Shemakhan Empress in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Golden Cockerel.
International recognition came to Albina Shagimuratova in 2007, when she won the first prize and a gold medal at the competition named after. P. I. Tchaikovsky. A year later, the singer made her debut at the Salzburg Festival – as the Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Riccardo Muti. In this role, she then appeared on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, La Scala, the Vienna State Opera, the Bavarian State Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the San Francisco Opera, the Bolshoi Theater of Russia, etc.
Albina Shagimuratova’s repertoire includes roles in operas by Mozart and bel canto composers: Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor), Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), title roles in Semiramide and Anne Boleyn, Elvira (Puritans), Violetta Valerie (La Traviata), Aspasia (Mithridates, King of Pontus), Constanta (The Abduction from the Seraglio), Gilda (Rigoletto), Comtesse de Folleville (Journey to Reims), Neala (Pariah) Donizetti), Adina (Love Potion), Amina (La Sonnambula), Musetta (La Boheme), and Flaminia (Haydn’s Lunar World), title roles in Massenet’s Manon and Stravinsky’s The Nightingale, soprano parts in Rossini’s Stabat Mater, Mozart’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Mahler’s Eighth Symphony, Britten’s War Requiem, etc.
She has performed as a guest soloist at the Glyndebourne Festival, the Edinburgh International Festival, the BBC Proms, major European and American opera houses and concert halls.
In 2011, she performed the part of Lyudmila in Dmitri Chernyakov’s play Ruslan and Lyudmila, which opened the historical stage of the Bolshoi Theater of Russia after reconstruction (the performance was recorded on DVD).
She made her debut at the Mariinsky Theater in 2015 in a concert performance of Lucia di Lammermoor. In the 2018–2019 season, she became a member of the theater’s opera troupe.
• Honored Artist of Russia (2017) • People’s Artist of the Republic of Tatarstan (2009) and laureate of the State Prize of the Republic of Tatarstan. Gabdully Tukaya (2011) • Laureate of the XIII International Competition. P. I. Tchaikovsky (Moscow, 2007; XNUMXst prize) • Laureate of the XLII International Competition for Vocalists. Francisco Viñas (Barcelona, 2005; XNUMXrd prize) • Laureate of the XXI International Vocal Competition named after. M. I. Glinka (Chelyabinsk, 2005; XNUMXst prize)
