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Alexandra
Durseneva

Mezzo-Soprano
Alexandra Durseneva
Alexandra Durseneva is the owner of a deep, expressive voice, the wide range and timbre capabilities of which allow the singer to perform a contralto and mezzo-soprano repertoire, including various roles in Russian and Western operas: from Ratmir in Glinka's Ruslan and Lyudmila to Arzache in Rossini's Semiramide ".
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Alexandra Durseneva

Alexandra Durseneva uses her acting data with brilliance, embodying comedy roles, for example, Mrs. Quickly in Verdi's opera Falstaff, as well as performing lyrical and dramatic parts, such as Marfa in Mussorgsky's opera Khovanshchina or Lyubasha in Rimsky's The Tsar's Bride. Korsakov. Alexandra Durseneva was born in Kharkov, in the family of an opera singer. After graduating from the Kharkov Institute of Arts in 1991 in the class of Professor T. Veske, she became a soloist of the Kharkov Academic Opera and Ballet Theater, where she performed the main parts of the mezzo-soprano repertoire. In 1993, she became a laureate of the International Vocal Competition. Glinka, in 1994 she won 1st prize at the Amber Nightingale Chamber Singers Competition in Kaliningrad (Russia). In 1995, the singer became a laureate of the International Competition. Moniuszko in Warsaw. Since 1994, Alexandra Durseneva has been a soloist of the Bolshoi Theater of Russia, in which she sang such major roles as Vanya in Glinka's Ivan Susanin, Konchakovna in Borodin's Prince Igor, Basmanov in Tchaikovsky's Oprichnik, Martha in Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina , Lyubasha in Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride. Besides, in her repertoire as Clarice in Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges, Princess de Bouillon in Chilea's Adrienne Lecouvrere, Nanny in Eugene Onegin, Martha in Iolanthe. In 1995, she took part in Rimsky-Korsakov's The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia at the Bregenz Opera Festival (Austria). In 1997, Alexandra returned to Bregenz, participating in the performance of Rubinstein's opera The Demon. The following year she sang in the same opera conducted by V. Fedoseyev at the Vienna Konzerthaus. In 1997, Alexandra returned to Bregenz, participating in the performance of Rubinstein's opera The Demon. The following year she sang in the same opera conducted by V. Fedoseyev at the Vienna Konzerthaus. In 1997, Alexandra returned to Bregenz, participating in the performance of Rubinstein's opera The Demon. The following year she sang in the same opera conducted by V. Fedoseyev at the Vienna Konzerthaus. In January 2017, on the stage of the Chamber Hall of the Moscow International House of Music, Alexandra Durseneva presented her new author's multi-genre project with the participation of soloists of the Bolshoi Theater - a concert-offering to Camille Saint-Saens. In February, the artist participated in a concert of opera stars in Cyprus. In the spring, solo vocal evenings of the performer took place in the Mirror Hall of the Mosconcert at the Cannon and Small Halls of the Conservatory. Alexandra was one of the organizers of the summer "Opera Evenings" in the open air in the Petrovsky Travel Palace with the participation of the stars of the Bolshoi Theater. At the Bolshoi Theater, the artist performed the part of Balda in the opera The Tale of the Pope and his worker Balda, participated in the sensational production of the Bolshoi's Nureyev (the part of Mezzo and Wind), and also in a concert dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the birth of A.K. .Tolstoy. A significant event for Alexandra Durseneva in 2017 was the release of her second solo disc, recorded at the Melodiya company, "Romance of the 20th Century" (piano - V. Slobodyan and L. Orfenov), which included musical rarities - works by Stravinsky Prokofiev , V. Yurovsky Sr. and Mark Minkov. The presentation took place in December in the Great Hall of the Geological Museum. Vernadsky. In 2018 and 2019, the author's project of musical portraits of outstanding composers at the Moscow International House of Music, dedicated to Francesco Cilea and Mikhail Glinka, received a new continuation. Traditional vocal evenings took place: in the White Hall of the Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin, the Beethoven Hall of the Bolshoi Theatre, the Small Hall of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Petrovsky Palace, the State Literary Museum “House of I.S. Ostroukhov in Trubniki", the Lutheran Cathedral of Peter and Paul, the art club "Musik&Painting". The performance of the singer in the joint project of the minimalist composer Sergei Akhunov and the ensemble La Voce Strumentale under the direction of Dmitry Sinkovsky "SONGS & POEMS" brought a new interesting experience to the performance of modern music. In the summer of 2018, Alexandra Durseneva took part in a production of the opera "Boris Godunov" on the stage of the "Opera de la Bastille" in Paris (conductor - Vladimir Yurovsky, director - Ivo van Hoven). The beginning of 2019 was marked for Alexandra Durseneva by her participation in the world premiere of Alexander Vustin's opera The Devil in Love at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theater (Donya Mencia's part). On June 9, the singer took part in a concert performance of the opera "Boris Godunov" and the world premiere of Yuri Butsko's cantata "The Tale of the Pugachev Riot" on the stage of the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall (GASO). On October 30, on the same stage, she performed the part of Frikka in a concert performance of Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold (conductor Vladimir Yurovsky). In February 2020, the Bolshoi Theater hosted the premiere of the opera Sadko directed by Dmitry Chernyakov, where the singer performed the part of Foma Nazaritch's wife. A pleasant surprise for the fans of A. Durseneva was the premiere of the multi-genre performance “Kurt Weil “Yuokali”, which took place on February 26, 2020 at the new developed site – “LovelyLoft”. The singer successfully performed in it 10 works by the German-American composer Kurt Weill, which were written for cabarets and Broadway theaters, most of which were performed in Russia for the first time. Alexandra Durseneva has collaborated with outstanding conductors, including Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Vladimir Fedoseev, Yuri Temirkanov, Mark Ermler, Andrey Chistyakov, Mikhail, Vladimir and Dmitry Yurovsky, Alexander Vedernikov, Zoltan Peshko, Mikhail Pletnev, Elyahu Inball, Gintaras Rinkevičius, Evelino Pido, Timur Zangiev; worked with such directors as Garry Kupfer, Boris Pokrovsky, Sir Peter Ustinov, David Pountney, Tim Hopkins, Lamberto Pugelli, Graham Vick, Francesca Zambello, Temur Chkheidze, Alexander Sokurov, Valery Fokin, Eymuntas Nyakroshyus, Robert Karsen, Ivo van Hoven, Kirill Serebrennikov, Mikhail Eliseev, Dmitry Chernyakov.




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Mezzo-Soprano