Marina Karpechenkosoprano
Marina Karpechenko was born in Moscow, graduated from the Gnessins State Musical College, the Gnessins Russian Academy of Music and completed the postgraduate studies. Her vocal teachers were L. Dianova, A. Petrova, A. Davtyan, T. Chachava.
She is a Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (2006). In 1994 she joined the theatre company of Helikon-Opera, where she made her debut as Aida and later on she played this role at the International Music Festival in Saltsburg (Austria). Marina Karpechenko also participated in the Riccardo Muti Summer Festival in Ravenna (Italy), sang on the stages of the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (France), Albert Hall (Great Britain), the Teatro Dante Alighieri (Italy), and played the part of Abigail (“Nabucco” by G. Verdi) on the stage of the Moscow International House of Music (2009). In 2011 Marina for the first time performed a Wagner part (Isabella in the play “Das Liebesverbot”), for which she was nominated for the “Zolotaya Maska (The Golden Mask)” Award.
Marina Karpechenko is an active concert performer. Having a wide chamber repertoire, she regularly appears in the halls of the Moscow Conservatory, the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, and the Moscow International House of Music. In 2006 Marina recorded the best songs by G. Mahler orchestrated by B. Tischenko (the first performance). As a part of the Year of Germany in Russia she presented the program “The Voice of Romanticism” on the stage of the Prokofiev Concert Hall of the Glinka Museum of Musical Culture (2012).
Performances at the Opera Festival:
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