Zlata Bulycheva was born in Petrozavodsk. She graduated from the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire in 1995 (class of Professor Iraida Levando), continuing as a post-graduate student at the Conservatoire (class of Professor Kira Izotova). She trained at the Stuttgart Academy of Music. Zlata Bulycheva has been a soloist with the Mariinsky Opera Company since 1996.
Zlata Bulycheva's concert repertoire includes cantata-oratorio works by Bach, Pergolesi, Mozart, Beethoven, Verdi, Berlioz, Wagner, Mahler and Prokofiev.
Zlata Bulycheva has toured with the Mariinsky Opera Company in Europe, the USA, South America and Japan.
Her recordings include Musorgsky's Boris Godunov and Prokofiev's Love for Three Oranges (with the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev, Philips Classics).