Artist · Mezzosoprano
Ekaterina Semenchuk
Biography
Ekaterina Semenchuk is a mezzo-soprano born in Minsk. She studied at the St Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire with Yevgenia Gorokhovskaya, graduating in 2001, and made her Mariinsky Theatre debut in 1999. Her early international appearances included La Scala and the Salzburg Festival in 2000.
Her repertoire encompasses major Russian and Italian operatic roles, with particular prominence given to Verdi: Azucena in Il trovatore, Eboli in Don Carlo, Amneris in Aida and Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, as well as the Requiem. She has performed at leading opera houses and festivals in Europe and the Americas. A finalist at Operalia in 2000 and Cardiff Singer of the World in 2001, she received a Golden Mask award in 2021 for her performance in the Bolshoi Theatre’s Sadko. For Da Vinci Classics, she appears in Giuseppe Sarti’s Magnificat and Gloria in excelsis with Mattia Rondelli and the Mariinsky forces.