Olga Kulchynska

Olga Kulchynska is one of the most sought-after lyric sopranos of her generation. Alongside her Salzburg Festival debut as Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare, in the 2024/25 season she has appeared as Mathilde (Guillaume Tell) at the Opéra de Lausanne, as Mimì (La bohème) at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, as Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and as Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte) at the Bavarian State Opera, as well as in a recital at the Munich Künstlerhaus.

Recent engagements have included Micaëla (Carmen) at Covent Garden, the Vienna State Opera and the Arena di Verona; Musetta (La bohème), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) and Liù (Turandot) at the Met; Ilia (Idomeneo), Susanna, Adina (L’elisir d’amore), Pamina and Natasha (War and Peace) in Munich; the Swan-Princess in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tale of Tsar Saltan at La Monnaie in Brussels; Ginevra (Ariodante) and Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia) at the Paris Opéra; Mimì, Musetta, Adina, Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Blanche de la Force (Dialogues des Carmélites) and Giulietta (I Capuleti e i Montecchi) at the Zurich Opera House; Goose-Girl (Königskinder) at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam; Juliette (Roméo et Juliette) at the Opéra de Rouen; Musetta at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome; Volkhova in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sadko at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow and Pamina at the Hamburg State Opera and the Festival Castell de Peralada. She also appeared at the Royal Theatre Carré in Amsterdam in Marina Abramović’s 7 Deaths of Maria Callas.

In concert she has appeared in Rachmaninoff’s choral symphony The Bells in Utrecht, Amsterdam and at the Edinburgh Festival, in Rossini’s Stabat Mater in Ljubljana and as the title role of Iolanta in Bournemouth, and has sung the soprano solo in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra under Keri-Lynn Wilson at the Polish National Opera in Warsaw and in the Schönhausen Palace Gardens in Berlin.

Olga Kulchynska graduated from the Young Artists Opera Programme at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, where she subsequently appeared in roles such as Marfa in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride, Corinna (Il viaggio a Reims), Gilda (Rigoletto) and Susanna.

She studied at the R. M. Glière State Institute of Music and the Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music in Kyiv. She has won prizes in numerous singing competitions, including the Tenor Viñas Singing Competition, Plácido Domingo’s Operalia Competition, and the Bulbul International Vocal Competition and Mykola Lysenko International Music Competition, held in Baku and Kyiv respectively.