Nina Solodovnikova

The Russian soprano Nina Solodovnikova is a rising star on the European opera scene. She won a special prize at the Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition and in 2024/25 held a scholarship at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. In the 2025/26 season she became a permanent member of the ensemble there, and has sung roles including Violetta (La traviata), Musetta (La bohème), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Micaëla (Carmen), Gilda (Rigoletto) and, most recently, Woglinde (Götterdämmerung) and Liù (Turandot).

Other highlights of the 2025/26 season include(d) Giulietta in Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi at the Braunschweig State Theatre, an aria recital at the Musashino Hall in Tokyo and her debut at the Salzburg Festival as Giunia (Lucio Silla). In the coming season she will open the season at the Lyric Opera of Chicago singing Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) under Enrique Mazzola.

Previous appearances included Adina (L’elisir d’amore) at the Daegu Opera House in South Korea, Violetta at the Ópera de Tenerife, Pietro il Grande, kzar delle Russie under Rinaldo Alessandrini at the Donizetti Opera Festival in Bergamo, Valencienne in Lehár’s Die lustige Witwe and Fannì in Rossini’s La cambiale di matrimonio under Daniel Oren at the Teatro Verdi in Salerno, Musetta in a production by Graham Vick at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Aspasia (Mitridate, re di Ponto) at the Teatro Olimpico di Vicenza and Oscar (Un ballo in maschera) under Yves Abel at the Auditorio Baluarte in Pamplona. She has also sung Despina (Così fan tutte) at the Tyrol Landestheater, Giunia and Leïla (Les Pêcheurs de perles) at the Salzburg Landestheater and Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte) at the Teatro Mayor in Bogotà.

From 2016 to 2018 she was a member of the Scuola dell’Opera of the Teatro Comunale in Bologna and in 2017 she was a member of the Opera (e)Studio of the Ópera de Tenerife.

Nina Solodovnikova was born in Moscow, initially studied singing in her home city and continued her training at the Conservatorio di Bologna and at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana with William Matteuzzi. She also specialized in Baroque repertory at the Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna with Romina Basso, pursued further training with Luciana Serra at the Accademia Teatro alla Scala and participated in masterclasses with Mariella Devia, Luciana D’Intino and Giulio Zappa.