Jūlija Vasiļjeva
soprano
Soprano Jūlija Vasiļjeva graduated from the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music. She has studied under Anita Garanča and Lilija Greidāne as well as Edda Moser, Renato Bruson, Inga Kalna, Axel Everaert and Margarita Gruzdeva. Vasiļjeva is a soloist with the Latvian National Opera. She has performed the roles of Violetta in Verdi’s La traviata, Clorinda in Rossini’s Cinderella, Gilda in Verdi’s Rigoletto, Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro and Donna Anna in Don Giovanni by Mozart, Nella in Gianni Schicchi and Liù in Turandot by Puccini, Marguerite in Gounod’s Faust, Norina in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale and many others. Vasiļjeva won the Grand Prix at the Rising Stars competition in Riga (2012) organised by Mikhail Kazinik, and third prize at the 16th Cappuccilli–Patané–Respighi International Vocal Competition in Alessandria, Italy (2022).
foto © Jānis Porietis, 2023
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