Russian-born,
Miss Ekaterina Bakanova graduated music school in accordion, piano and
singing and graduated in Vocal Studies from Gnesin Music Academy in
Moscow. She won several major international singing competitions like
Bilbao International Singing competition (Bilbao, Spain), Hans Gabor
Belvedere (Vienna, Austria), AsLiCo (Como, Italy) , Bella Voce (Moscow,
Russia) before becoming a soloist at Novaya Opera. Her win at the
Giuseppe de Stefano competition in Sicily and the Maria Caniglia
competition in Sulmona led her to professional debut in Italy, where
she studies privately with Gabriella Ravazzi in Genoa, and where since
2007 she has established a very successful career. She is a winner of
Giulietta Prize as a best female singer at Arena di Verona Opera
Festival 2015 and was nominated as a Best Young Female Opera Singers
2016 by Opera Awards in London.
Ekaterina Bakanova performs regulary on international opera
stages like Arena di Verona, La Fenice Opera House, Teatro Regio
di Torino, Teatro Massimo di Palermo, NCPA in Beijing, Semperoper
Dresden, ROH Covent Garden. The artist collaborates with conductors
such as Maurizio Benini, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Stefano Montanari,
Nello Santi, Placido Domingo, Karel Marc Chichon, Jan Latham Koenig,
Mung Wung Chung and Yutako Sado; and with directors such as Franco
Zeffirelli, Robert Carson, Calixto Bieto, Richard Eyre, Henning
Brockhaus, Hugo de Ana and Roberto Andó.
Recently she performed: Carmen at La Fenice in Venice (under Myung Whun Chung);
La Traviata in Venice, Florence, Trieste,
Peralada, Lisbon, Dresden, Moscow; La Rondine (new
production) in Florence; a concert version of Carmen
in Versailles with Jean-Christophe Spinosi, with whom Mrs Bakanova also
performed as Almirena in Handel's Rinaldo on tour in Brest, Lyon, Versailles,
Moscow, Vienna and in Vivaldi's Gloria and
Handel's Dixit Dominus in Paris (TCE);
Don Giovanni (Donna Anna) in Tel Aviv and in Padua; Le Nozze di
Figaro (Susanna) in Verona (Teatro Filarmonico); Il Bravo
(Violetta) by Mercadante in Wexford; Les pêcheurs de perles at the Liceu
in Barcelona and Dortmund; Turandot (Liù) and Les Contes d'Hoffmann
in Beijing; Shostakovich's Symphony no.14 with the Orchestre
Philharmonique de Strasbourg; Maria Stuarda in Lisbon;
La Traviata at the Teatro Real de Madrid, in Tokyo
and in Cagliari; Mahler's Symphony no.4
with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI in Turin under Fabio Luisi;
Les pêcheurs de perles in Oviedo;
Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Antonia) in Zurich;
L'Angelica (title role) by Porpora at the Festival della Valle d'Itria in Martina Franca under
Federico Maria Sardelli; Fidelio (Marzelline) at La Fenice in Venice under
Myung Whun Chung for the season's opening; her debut as Nedda in Pagliacci at the Opernhaus in Zurich.
Her upcoming engagements include: Il Viaggio a Reims in Dresden; L'Elisir d'amore in Cagliari; Symphony nr. 14 at the Philharmonie in Paris; Les pêcheurs de
perles in Zurich; La Rondine in Moscow; Moïse et Pharaon (Anaï) à Lyon;
La Traviata in Oviedo; Roberto Devereux in Geneva; a solo concert at La Fenice in Venice.
February 2022