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Marina SHAGUCH, soprano
Honoured Artist of Russia
1st Prize at the Rosa Ponselle International Singers Competition (USA,1992)
2nd Prize at the Tchaikovsky International Singers Competition (1990)
1st Prize at the Mussorgsky All-Russian Singers Competition (1989)
1st Prize at the Glinka All-Russian Singers Competition (1989)
Marina Shaguch was born in Krasnodar. She graduated from the St Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatoire in 1990 (class of Professor Tamara Novichenko) and was invited to join the Mariinsky Theatre company.
The roles she has sung at the Mariinsky Theatre include: Lyudmila (Ruslan and Lyudmila), Parasia (Sorochinsky Fair), Tatianа (Eugene Onegin), Iolanthe (Iolanthe, concert performance), Volkhova (Sadko), Маrfa (The Tsar's Bride), Fevronia, Sirin (The Tale of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maid Fevronia), Princess (Kashchei the Immortal), Leonora (Il trovatore), Priestess (Aida), Desdemona (Otello), First Lady (Die Zauberfl?te), Аriadna, Primadonna (Ariadna auf Naxos).
Her repertoire also includes the parts of Antonida (A Life for the Tsar), Donna Anna (The Stone Guest), Maria (Mazepa), Мlada (Mlada), Oxana (Christmas Eve), Zemfira (Aleko), Francesca (Francesca da Rimini), Leonora (La forza del destino), Elisabeth (Don Carlo), Мimi (La boh?me), Liu (Turandot), Маrguerite (Faust), Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Countess (Le nozze di Figaro) and Elsa (Lohengrin).
Marina Shaguch's concert repertoire includes the soprano parts in cantatas and masses, Bach's Passions, Pergolesi's Stabat mater, Mozart's Requiem and masses, Beethoven's 9th Symphony and Missa Solemnis, Brahms's Ein deutsches Requiem, Rossini's Stabat mater, Schubert's Salve regina and masses, Verdi's Requiem and Te Deum, Bruckner's Te Deum, Dvorak's Stabat mater, Faure's Requiem, Mahler's 2nd, 3rd and 8th Symphonies, Rakhmaninov's vocal-symphonic poem The Bells, Poulenc's Stabat mater, Britten's War Requiem, Shostakovich's 14th Symphony, Szymanowski's Stabat mater and Tsemlinsky's Lyrical Symphony; also vocаl cycles, romances and songs by Strauss, Berg, Schoenberg, Mussorgsky and Shostakovich.
Мarina Shaguch has toured in Germany, France, Italy, the USA, Scotland, Finland, the Netherlands and Israel. She has appeared with the Tokyo, San Francisco, Hartford, Houston and Rotterdam Symphony Orchestras, the American Symphony Orchestra, the Las Vegas Philharmonic Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and the Royal Scottish Orchestra. She has worked with many outstanding contemporary musicians, including the conductors Leon Botstein, James Conlon, Michael Tilson Thomas, Valery Gergiev, Eri Klas, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Andreas Delfs, Christoph Eschenbach, John Ashling, Eliahu Inbal and Alexander Vedernikov, the singers Sergey Leiferkus, Placido Domingo, and many others.
Marina Shaguch made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in the 1995-96 season in the role of Tatiana (Eugene Onegin). In the 1998-99 season she sang at Buckingham Palace, performing the second act of Otello with Placido Domingo and Valery Gergiev.
Recordings featuring Marina Shaguch have been released by major labels such as Philips Classics, BMG, Conifer, Chandos, Octavia, Supraphon and Hanssler.
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