Victoria Loukianetz
Loukianetz Victoria, Viktoria Loukianetz or Loukianets, Ukrainian Вікторія Лук'янець ( born November 20, 1966 in Kiev) is a Ukrainian opera singer in the vocal range soprano.
Career
Loukianetz began with five years of musical training and took piano lessons. Your vocal training began at fourteen. In 1989, she successfully completed her studies at the National Music Academy of Ukraine Peter Tchaikovsky. In the same year she became a soloist at the National Opera of Kiev. She made her debut there with the role of Marfa in the opera The Tsar's Bride by Rimsky -Korsakov. In the same game she made her debut in 1993 at the Bolshoi Theatre.
In 1990 she won first prize at the International Singing Competition Min-On in Tokyo and the International Mozart Competition. In 1991 she won the first prize at the International Maria Callas Competition in Athens. This was followed by debuts in Italy, France, Portugal, Japan and Greece.
In 1993 she made her debut at the Vienna State Opera as Queen of the Night in Mozart's opera The Magic Flute, where she remained until 2000 member of the ensemble. There she sang, among others, Gilda in Rigoletto, Violetta in La Traviata, Oscar in Un ballo in maschera, Adina in The Elixir of Love, the title roles in Linda di Chamounix and Lucia di Lammermoor, Elvira in I Puritani, Rosina in The Barber of Seville, Ophélie in Hamlet, Olympia in the Tales of Hoffmann, Musetta in La Bohème and 1998 Berthe in a new production of Meyerbeer's Le a Prophet with Placido Domingo and Agnes Baltsa.
In 1995 she made her debut at the Salzburg Festival as Violetta under the baton of Riccardo Muti. She has been known as one of the leading interpreters of this role, but also the entire bel canto repertoire.
Victoria Loukianetz guested on the following opera houses: the Metropolitan Opera ( debut in 1997 in La Traviata ), Scala di Milano (1995 in The Magic Flute, 1996 and 1998 as Woglinde in Das Rheingold, also in 1997 in Lucia di Lammermoor ), Covent Garden (2000 in La Traviata, Rigoletto, Il corsaro ), Opéra Bastille (1997 in La Traviata ), Salzburg Festival (La Traviata, Don Giovanni ), Tokyo ( Lucia di Lammermoor, 1999 in La Traviata, The Elixir of Love, Un ballo in maschera ), Bavarian State Opera Munich ( Il Barbiere di Siviglia ), Hamburg State Opera ( The Elixir of Love ), Nuremberg State Theatre (1999 as Violetta in La Traviata ), German Opera Berlin (2002 as Dirce in Medea, 2001 in Lucia di Lammermoor, La Traviata ), Aaltotheater Food (2002 as Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos ), Grand Théâtre de Genève ( 1997 Rigoletto ), New Israeli Opera (La Traviata ), at the Teatro Giuseppe Verdi in Trieste ( 2001 Ginevra di Scozia ), and at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège ( 2004/2005 as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, 2002/2003 as Gilda in Rigoletto ).
In the season 2006/2007 she sang Violetta at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. In addition, she appeared in the season 2006/2007 as Elettra in Mozart's Idomeneo at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin and 2007/2008 as Marie in the resumption of Bernd Alois Zimmermann's opera Die Soldaten at the New National Theatre Tokyo. In the season 2008/2009 she performed with the Violetta also at the Royal Opera in Copenhagen.
The voice of Victoria Loukianetz is also documented on several CDs ( Mozart's C Minor Mass and Haydn's Nelson Mass, in Josef Myslivecek oratorio Abramo ed Isacco, Russian opera arias ) and on DVD ( The Elixir of Love in Tokyo ).