Alisa Kolosova
Alisa Kolosova has appeared to great acclaim at many of the most prestigious theatres throughout the world, including Opéra National de Paris, Bayerische Staatsoper, Salzburg Festival, Wiener Staatsoper, and Glyndebourne Festival Opera, and performed at venues including Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Kennedy Center Washington and Carnegie Hall New York.
A former member of the Atelier Lyrique at Opéra National de Paris and Salzburg Festival Young Singers Program, Kolosova came to international attention in 2010 at Salzburg Whitsun Festival, performing in the acclaimed production of Mozart’s La Betulia liberata under the baton of Riccardo Muti. Between 2011 and 2014 she was a member of the ensemble of Wiener Staatsoper, where her roles included Polina in Pikovaja Dama, Olga in Eugene Onegin, Fenena in Nabucco, Annio in Clemenza di Tito, Suzuki in Madama Butterfly and Bersi in Andrea Chenier. Kolosova has collaborated with such conductors as Riccardo Muti, Ivor Bolton, Vasily Petrenko, Alain Altinoglu, Andris Nelsons, Gianandrea Noseda, Franz Welser-Möst, William Christie, Marin Alsop, Sir Andrew Davis, Lothar Zagrosek and Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
Recent highlights include a critically acclaimed Isoletta in La Straniera by Bellini at Concertgebouw Amsterdam, her debut as Dalila in Saint-Saëns’ Samson et Dalila at Theater Basel, Maddalena in Rigoletto at Bayerische Staatsoper and at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, her Dutch National Opera debut in a new production of Berlioz’s Romeo et Juliette, The Glagolitic Mass with Sir John Eliot Gardiner at the Tonhalle in Zurich, and Foreign Princess in Rusalka at Opéra National de Paris under the baton of Sir Andrew Davis.
On the concert platform recent successes of Kolosova include her Carnegie Hall debut with performances of Scriabin’s Symphony No.1 and Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky with Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Mozart’s Requiem and Vivaldi’s Magnificat at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Schubert’s Mass No.5 with Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Vivaldi’s Magnificat with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Verdi’s Messa da Requiem at Zürich Opernhaus.