Tatiana Werestchagina studied musicology at the Moscow Conservatoire, and works as a musicologist, dramaturg and translator. She has contributed to publications including The Cambridge Stravinsky Encyclopedia and produced the first Russian translation of the diaries of Count Harry Kessler. She has worked on numerous opera productions with the director Dmitri Tcherniakov, including Der Ring des Nibelungen (2022) and Tristan und Isolde (2018) at the Berlin State Opera, Der fliegende Holländer (2021) at the Bayreuth Festival, Der Freischütz (2021) at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the double-bill Iphigénie en Aulide /Iphigénie en Tauride (2024) in Aix-en-Provence and Elektra (2021), Salome (2023) and Ariadne auf Naxos (2025) at the Hamburg State Opera.
In addition to academic publications, she regularly writes texts on music and opera history for institutions such as the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Paris Opéra, the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam and La Monnaie in Brussels.
