Olga Bezsmertna

Since her spectacular role debuts as Rusalka next to Piotr Beczala and as Rachel in La Juive next to Neil Shicoff's legendary Eléazar at the Vienna State Opera in 2014/15, the "magnificent voice" (Die Presse) Olga Bezsmertna has established herself as one of today’s most impressive young singers. In the 22/23 season, Olga Bezsmertna will perform the title role in Rusalka at La Scala. She will also be heard as the Duchess of Parma at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino next season (Doctor Faust). In the 2021/22 season Olga Bezsmertna sang Ghita in a concert version of Zemlinski's Der Zwerg at the George Enescu Festival in Bucharest and made her house and role debut as Diana in Cavalli's La Calisto at La Scala in Milan. She returned to Scala in May ’22 as Echo in Ariadne auf Naxos. Many planned engagements in 2020/21 fell victim to the Covid-Pandemic cancellations, and amongst them with Teatro Liceu in Barcelona as Tatjana (Eugene Onegin), with Teatro dell’Opera di Roma as Jenufa, and with the Munich Staatsoper as Alice (Falstaff). Ms Bezsmertna sang concerts with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken and the Hessisches Staatsorchester Wiesbaden. In 2015 Olga Bezsmertna made her Salzburg Festival debut as Marzelline in a new production of Fidelio alongside Jonas Kaufmann and Adrianne Pieczonka. She also appeared at the Salzburg Festival in Strauss' Die Liebe der Danae. After graduating from the Kiev National Academy of Music in 2010 and after her brilliant victory in the Bertelsmann Foundation's "Neue Stimmen" competition in 2011 Olga Bezsmertna was engaged as an ensemble member at the Vienna State Opera (till 2020), where she has since sung numerous important roles, including Contessa (Le nozze di Figaro), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Liù (Turandot), Mimì (La bohème), Mélisande (Pélleas et Mélisande), Tatjana (Eugene Onegin), Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus) and Alice Ford (Falstaff).