Natalia EVSTAFIEVA, mezzo-soprano

Natalia Yevstafieva graduated from the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire in 1999. From 1997-2000 she was a soloist with the St Petersburg Musorgsky Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet where she performed as Marina Mnishek (Boris Godunov), Konchakovna (Prince Igor), Olga (Eugene Onegin), Polina (The Queen of Spades), Flora (La traviata), Carmen (Carmen) and Prince Orlovsky (Die Fledermaus).

Soloist with the Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers from 2001, making her Mariinsky Theatre debut the same year as Marfa (Khovanshchina). Natalia Yevstafieva has been a Mariinsky Theatre soloist since 2008.

She is prize-winner at the IV International Rimsky-Korsakov Competition (2000), diploma-recipient at the Barcelona International Vocalists' Competition (2000), recipient of the Golden Sofit, St Petersburg's most prestigious theatre prize (1998).

Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre includes: Marina Mnishek (Boris Godunov), Marfa (Khovanshchina), Konchakovna (Prince Igor), Olga (Eugene Onegin), Polina (The Queen of Spades), Lel (The Snow Maiden), Lyubava (Sadko), Weaver, Cook (The Tale of Tsar Saltan), Kashcheyevna (Kashchei the Immortal in concert), Boy (The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia), Angel (The Demon), Nicoletta, Clarice (Love for Three Oranges), Agrafena Alexandrovna (The Brothers Karamazov), Fenena (Nabucco), Maddalena (Rigoletto), Flora Bervoix (La traviata), Lola (Cavalleria rusticana), Suzuki (Madama Butterfly), Suor Dolcina (Suor Angelica), Concepciуn (L'Heure espagnol), Didon (Les Troyens), Idamante (Idomeneo, re di Creta), Second Lady (Die Zauberflоеte), Waltraut (Die Walkuere), Judith (Bluebeard's Castle in concert).

The singer's concert repertoire includes the mezzo-soprano roles in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Verdi's Requiem and arias and romances by Russian, German, Italian and French composers.

Natalia Yevstafieva has toured with the Mariinsky Opera Company to Germany, France and the USA. She has performed as Olga (Eugene Onegin) at Paris' Thеаtre du Chаtelet and as Carmen (Carmen) at the Coliseu de Lisboa (Portugal).