Soprano Anastasia Kalagina graduated from the St. Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire and joined the Mariinsky Academy for Young Singers in 1998. Since 2007 she is a Mariinsky Theatre Soloist and a regular guest artist throughout the world. As a prize-winner at the International Vocalists' Competition in China in 2005 and the International Rimsky-Korsakov Young Opera Singers' Competition in St. Petersburg in 2001, Anastasia Kalagina has toured throughout Europe and the USA, as well as to Israel and Japan.