Russian Light Olga Peretyatko

• Michail Glinka (1804 - 1857):
• 1 Ruslan and Lyudmila: Lyudmila's Cavatina, "Grustno mne, roditel' dorogoy!" 07:58
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908):
• 2 The Golden Cockerel: Hymn to the Sun, "Otvet' mne, zorkoye svetilo!" 05:21
• 3 The Snow Maiden: Snow Maiden's Aria, "S podruzhkami po yagodu khodit" 03:43
• 4 Sadko: Volkhova's Lullaby, "Son po berezhku khodil" 04:17
• 5 The Tsar's Bride: Marfa's Aria, "Ivan Sergeich, khochesh', v sad poydyom" 05:42
• 6 Plenivshis' rozoj, solovey, Op. 2, No. 2 03:18
• Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 - 1943):
• 7 Eshchyo v polyakh beleyet sneg, Op. 14, No. 11 02:17
• 8 Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14 06:09
• 9 Ne poy, krasavica, Op. 4, No. 4 04:39
• 10 Zdes' khorosho, Op. 21, No. 7 02:32
• Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1972):
• 11 The Nightingale: Nightingale's Song, "Akh! Serdce dobroye" 03:49
• Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975):
• 12 Moscow, Cheryomushki: Lidochka's Song, "Ya v shkolu kogda-to khodila" 02:41
• 13 Moscow, Cheryomushki: Lidochka's Song, "Chasy na ploshchadi zazhglis" 02:19
• Total Runtime 54:45

Info for Russian Light

On her new album “Russian Light”, Olga Peretyatko presents favourite arias and songs from her homeland Russia – by Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov, Stravinsky and Shostakovich. Many of them are well known (Rachmaninov’s Vocalise) but there are also unknown rare jewels on the album like the songs from Rachmaninov or the opera arias by Shostakovich. She teamed with the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra, one of the best orchestras in Russia, and excellent for this kind of repertoire with conductor Dimitry Liss, specialist for this repertoire.

The main focus of “Russian Light” falls on excerpts from operas that have left a deep imprint on Russia’s national music. Among these are Glinka’s Ruslan and Ludmila as well as Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Golden Cockerel, The Snow Maiden and The Tsar’s Bride. The latter piece represents a personal triumph for Ms Peretyatko, for she sang the role of Marfa under Daniel Barenboim to open the 2013 season at the Berlin State Opera. With her silvery timbre and solid mastery of coloratura she thrilled not only the audience but the critic of Der Tagespiegel: “Olga Peretyatko projects Marfa as a being so delicate and other-worldly that it strikes the knowledgeable listener to the core.”

Other excerpts on “Russian Light” are taken from operas by Stravinsky and Shostakovich that likewise accompanied Ms Peretyatko on her rise to stardom. In 2009 she stepped in at short notice for an indisposed colleague to sing the role of Lidochka in Shostakovich’s operetta Moscow, Cheryomushki at the Opéra de Lyon. Though she had only two days’ time before the première, she won acclaim for her breathtaking character depiction. In 2010 she sang The Nightingale in Stravinsky’s like-named opera (Le Rossignol) at the festival in Aix-en-Provence. When the production was mounted in New York and Canada the North American critics went wild about her effortless presentation and the “fresh sound of her voice”.

Olga Peretyatko, soprano
Ural Philharmonic Orchestra
Dmitri Liss, conductor

Olga Peretyatko
was born and raised in St. Petersburg. She started her musical career at the age of 15, singing in the children's choir of the Mariinsky Theatre. She completed a course as a choirmaster and then enrolled to study singing at the Hanns Eisler-Hochschule für Musik in Berlin. Olga Peretyatko has won several awards in international competitions such as Operalia, the opera competition organized by Plácido Domingo, where she won second prize.

From 2005 and 2007 Olga Peretyatko was a member of the opera studio at the Hamburg State Opera. In subsequent years she performed at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Berlin and Munich state operas, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, La Fenice in Venice, at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, and at the Festival La Folle journée de Nantes.

Olga Peretyatko gained international attention as Stravinsky's Rossignol in the acclaimed Robert Lepage production that premiered at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 2010, followed by performances in Toronto, New York, Lyon and Amsterdam. She achieved great success in her role debuts as Adina in L'elisir d'amore in Lille, as Lucia di Lammermoor at the Teatro Massimo Palermo, as Gilda in Rigoletto at La Fenice in Venice, as well as at the Festival Avenches.

In 2011, Olga Peretyatko debuted successfully as Giulietta (I Capuleti e I Montecchi) in Lyon and Paris. In Lausanne she made her debut in the title role of Handel's Alcina, and in Amsterdam she had her role debut as Fiorilla (ll Turco in Italia). Substituting for a colleague at the last minute, her performance of Adina in L'elisir d'amore during the Pfingstfestspiele in Baden-Baden was praised, as was her debut in Lucia di Lammermoor at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. She also received the highest acclaim at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro as Matilde di Shabran in summer 2012, a production released on DVD by DECCA.

In 2013 and 2014, Olga Peretyatko's commitments included the Mozart Weeks, Salzburg Festival (Giunia in Lucio Silla) and the Berlin State Opera, debuts at the Vienna State Opera, Zurich Opera House (Rigoletto) and La Scala in Milan (Marfa in Die Zarenbraut), and performances at the Deutsche Oper Berlin (Adina in L'elisir d'amore), the Hamburg State Opera (Adina in L'elisir d'amore, Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos), and her successful debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York (Elvira in I Puritani). She is also returning to the Festival in Aix-en-Provence as Fiorilla (Il Turco in Italia) and to the Bavarian State Opera in Munich (Il Turco in Italia), and I Capuleti e I Montecchi with the Washington Concert Opera, 'Amenaide' in Tancredi in Moscow (concert), L'Elisir d'amore at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, and a tour in China with the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal performing Strauss' Four last songs.

In 2015 Olga Peretyatko will debut as Violetta in La Traviata at the Opéra Lausanne, followed by a new production of the same title at the Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden. She will return to the Vienna State Opera for I Puritani, to La Scala in Milan for Rossini's Otello, to the Metropolitan Opera in New York for Rigoletto and will make her debuts at the Teatro Regio in Turin in I Puritani, at the Tivoli in Copenhagen and at La Monnaie in Bruxelles in L'Elisir d'amore and at the Teatro Real in Madrid in Rigoletto. Subsequent debuts are planned to take place at the Opéra Bastille in Paris, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the New National Theatre in Tokyo, at the San Francisco Opera. Besides her opera career, Olga Peretyatko performs regularly in recitals and concerts throughout the world.

She has an exclusive recording contract with Sony Classical. Her first solo CD 'La Bellezza del Canto' with arias from Rossini, Verdi, Donizetti, Massenet and Puccini was released in 2011, and her second CD 'Arabesque' has been released in 2013, both to critical acclaim. Her third CD, entirely dedicated to Gioacchini Rossini, will be released in 2015.

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