Irina Makarova

Education
Conservatory of Voronezh

Debut
Opera of Voronezh

Highlights
Bolsjoi Theatre, Mariinski Theatre
Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 2005 - 2007
Marfa/Khovantsjina; Moessorgski’s Salammbo; Amneris/Aida; Solokha/Cerevicki (Teatro alla Scala), Helen Bezuhova/War and Peace (Bolsjoi); Azucena/Il Trovatore (Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania); Eboli/Don Carlo (Bielefield), Fenena/Nabucco; Principessa di Bouillon/Adriana Lecouvreur; Santuzza/Cavalleria rusticana; Dalila/Samson et Dalila; Charlotte/Werther; Olga/Jevgeni Onegin; Pauline/Pikovaja Dama; Ljoebov/Mazeppa; Ljubasha/De bruid van de staar; Marina Mnishek/Boris Godoenov; Carmen.

Prizes
Winner of the Tchaikovskysinging competition (Moscow), Boris Christof competition (Sofia), Elena Obraztsova competition (St.Petersburg), Stanislav Monushko competition (Warsaw)

Worked with
Mtislav Rostropovitsj, Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Spivakov, Kazushi Ono, Theodor Currentzis, Daniel Lipton, Gianandrea Noseda, Marco Guidarini, Mikail Pletnev.