Lolitta Semenina, Soprano. Born in Moscow. APA Artists' Management Alexandra Mercer - www.apaartistsmanagement.com/lolittasemenina/ Antonia Cifrone** Cellia Costea Anna Dragan Abbie Furmansky Vassiliki Karayanni Elena Kelessidi** Irini Kyriakidou Irina Samoylova* Lolitta Semenina Anna Shafajinskaia** Svetlana Sozdateleva* Nina Warren Anne Williams-King Elena Zelenskaya* Fredrika Brillembourg** Louise Callinan** Irina Dolzhenko* Irini Karaianni** Alexandra Durseneva* Thomas Michael Allen (IT) Fernando del Valle** Howard Haskin Antonis Koroneos** Vadim Zaplechny* Marcin Bronikowski** Mauro Buda** Massimiliano Gagliardo** Yasuo Horiuchi Marcello Lippi** George Mosley** Dimitri Platanias Sergei Stilmachenko** Johannes von Duisburg** Matteo De Monti** Askar Abdrazakov** Andrey Antonov* Arutjun Kotchinian** Christophoros Stamboglis Mikhail Svetlov** Manlio Benzi** Alistair Dawes (IT) Niels Muus** Sergio La Stella (IT) Benjamin Davis Bronowski Productions Audio (Mp3): Turandot (Puccini) Lolitta Semenina is one of the leading stars representing the new generation of Russian singers. Born in Moscow she graduated from the Russian Music Academy in 1986. An important period in her professional career was working in chamber music. She has sung in very prestigious concert halls in France, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Germany, Switzerland and South Africa. In 1995 she became a prizewinner of the M.Glinka International Competition in Moscow, which proved a turning point in her career and in 1998 she won the J. B. Viotti International Competition in Vercelli (Italy). In 1999 she was accepted by the Bolshoi Theatre as a resident soprano and she made her debut there as Musetta LA BOHEME in 2000. She has gone on to sing the following roles with the Company: Puccini: LA BOHÈME - Mimi; Musette Puccini: TURANDOT - Liu Tchaikovsky: EUGENE ONEGIN - Tatiana Tchaikovsky: IOLANTA - Iolanta Rimsky-Korsakov: THE TSAR'S BRIDE - Marpha Rubinstein: THE DEMON - Tamara Verdi: OTELLO - Desdemona Bizet: CARMEN - Micaëla Verdi: FALSTAFF - Alice Ford Puccini: MADAMA BUTTERFLY - Cio-Cio-San Among recent successes was her appearance as Liù TURANDOT directed by Francesca Zambello for which she received excellent reviews in the press and which she repeated at the Mariinskiy Theatre in St Petersburg. In February 2005 Lolitta Semenina took part in the Premier performance of Verdi's FALSTAFF, which was staged by the celebrated Italian director, Giorgio Strehler and in June that year she appeared singing the title role in the premier of MADAMA BUTTERFLY, staged by Robert Wilson at the Bolshoi Theatre. In November 2006 she took part in the master-class of Renata Scotto at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. In concert her repertory includes: J.S.Bach - Messa H-moll, Magnificat; G.Rossini - Messa Solennelle; W.A.Mozart - Requiem, Messa C-moll, Vesperae sollennes de confessore; G.Verdi - Requiem; J.Brahms - Ein Deutsches Requiem; F.Shubert - Stabat Mater, Messa G-dur; G.Pergolesy - Stabat Mater; A.Vivaldi - Gloria; F.Mendelsohn - Lobgesang; L.V.Beethoven - Symphony N°9. Among the conductors with whom she has worked are: Vladimir Fedoseev, Mikhail Pletnev, Saulus Sondeskis, Vladimir Spivakov and Wolfgang Gonnenvein. --> Download (Pdf) APA Artists' Management / Alexandra Mercer 25E Frognal - London NW3 6AR, UK - Tel: +44 (0)207 794 7633 - Fax: +44 (0)207 431 7320