Vasilisa Berzhanskaya
Vasilisa appears on the stages of the Vienna State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Royal Ballet and Opera House Covent Garden, Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Teatro dell’opera di Roma, Opera National de Paris, Teatro Massimo Palermo, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Salzburg Festival, Aix-en-Provence Festival, “Arena di Verona” festival, Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich and many others.
The repertoire includes principal roles in belcanto, baroque and French operas: Norma and Adalgisa in “Norma” and Romeo in “I Capuleti e i Montecchi” by Bellini, Sara in “Roberto Devereux” and Giovanna Seymour in “Anna Bolena” by Donizetti, Anna in “Maometto Secondo”, Sinaide in “Moise et Pharaon”, Corinna in “Il Viaggio a Reims”, Angelina in “La Cenerentola” and Rosina in “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” by Rossini, Carmen in “Carmen” by Bizet, Charlotte in “Werther” by Massenet, Alcina in “Alcina” by Handel, Tatiana in “Eugene Onegin” by Tchaikovsky and many others.
Among her recent debuts: Semiramide in “Semiramide” by Rossini, Medea in “Medea” by Cherubini, Elena in “La Donna del Lago” by Rossini, Agrippina in “Aggrippina” by Handel, the title role of Anna Bolena by G.Donizetti and Leonora in Verdi’s “Il Trovatore”, Fiordiligi in “Così fan tutte” by Mozart, soprano solo in Messa per Rossini by Verdi and many others.
During the years she collaborated with conductors such as Alberto Zedda, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Chailly, Marco Armiliato, Daniele Gatti, Giacomo Sagripanti, Donald Runnicles, Maris Jansons, Michele Mariotti, Enrique Mazzola, Dmitry Jurowski, Stefano Montanari, Mark Elder, Andrea Marcon, Dmitry Korchak, Daniel Oren, Daniele Rustioni, Roberto Abbado, Gianluca Capuano, Asher Fisch, Emmanuel Villaume, Diego Mateuz, George Petrou, and many others.