Olga Bezsmertna

The Ukrainian soprano Olga Bezsmertna was born in 1983 in the Kiev region and studied with Evgenia Miroshnichenko at the National Music Academy of Ukraine in Kiev. In 2003 she was a prize-winner at the national vocal competition “New Names of Ukraine” in Kiev. In 2006 she won a prize at the International Rimsky-Korsakov Vocal Competition in St. Petersburg. At the European Vocal Competition DEBUT in 2008 she won the First Prize as well as the Audience and the Puccini Awards. In 2010, Olga Bezsmertna was among the finalists at the International Hans Gabor Belvedere Vocal Competition in Vienna.

In 2007, Olga Bezsmertna performed the role of Rosina in Paisiellos’ Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Oper Oder-Spree Festival.

Olga Bezsmertna’s role repertoire includes the Countess in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Pamina in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Micaëla in Bizet’s Carmen, Marguerite in Gounod’s Faust, Nedda in Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, Marfa in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride, Tatyana in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, Elvira in Verdi’s Ernani and the title role in Puccini’s Tosca.