Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano Olga Borodina is a star of the Kirov Opera, regularly appearing with the major opera houses and orchestras around the world. Winner of the Rosa Ponselle and Barcelona competitions, Olga Borodina made her highly acclaimed European debut at London’s Royal Opera House Covent Garden in 1992, sharing the stage with Plácido Domingo in Samson and Delilah – performances that launched her international solo career as a fixture at such houses as the Metropolitan Opera and the Vienna State Opera, among many others.
Ms. Borodina made her American debut in 1995 at the San Francisco Opera in La Cenerentola.
Her concert appearances with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra under James Levine at Carnegie Hall have included Sheherezade, La mort de Cleopatre, and Verdi’s Requiem. Other concert engagements have included Songs and Dances of Death, Romeo and Juliette, Rossini’s Stabat Mater, Pulcinella, Ivan the Terrible and Alexander Nevsky. Miss Borodina also performed La mort de Cleopatre and with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and James Levine at Carnegie Hall and recorded the work live at the Vienna Musikverein with the Vienna Philharmonic and Gergiev for Decca.
In recital, Olga Borodina has appeared in London (Wigmore Hall and Barbican Centre), Milan (La Scala), Vienna (Konzerthaus), San Francisco (Davies Symphony Hall), Rome (Accademia di Santa Cecilia), Geneva (Grand Théatre), Hamburg (Staatsoper), Paris (Théatre des Champs Elysées), Barcelona (Liceu), Madrid (National Concert Hall) and in Amsterdam (Concertgebouw). Ms. Borodina made her Carnegie Hall Recital debut with James Levine.
Olga Borodina’s releases on the Philips Classics label include Khovanchina, The Queen of Spades, War and Peace, Prince Igor, Boris Godunov, Eugene Onegin, La Forza del Destino, Don Carlos, Rachmaninov’s Vespers, Stravinsky’s Pulcinella, Berlioz’s Romeo et Juliette, and recently, a double album “A Portrait of Olga Borodina” with a collection of songs and arias. These recordings include performances with Valery Gergiev, Bernard Haitink and Sir Colin Davis. Her solo recital recordings, all under the Philips Classics label, are Tchaikovsky, Songs of Desire, Bolero and an album of opera arias with the Welsh National Opera Orchestra and Carlo Rizzi. On the Erato label she recorded Samson et Dalilah opposite Jose Cura with Sir Colin Davis. Other releases have included Verdi’s Requiem with Gergiev, Aida with Harnoncourt and the Vienna Pilharmonic, and Berlioz’s La Mort de Cleopatre from live concerts at the Musikverein in Vienna with the Vienna Philharmonic and Gergiev for Decca.
Olga Borodina was named “People´s Artist of Russia” in 2002, and in 2007 was the recipient of the State Prize, the highest allocate in Russia. Her recent Verdi Requiem recording with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Maestro Muti won two Grammys in 2011 for Best Classical Album and best choral performance. Ms Borodina was one of the first Russian Artists to receive a Grammy.