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: 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 Rinaldo on tour in Brest, Lyon, Versailles,
Moscow, Vienna and in Vivaldi's Gloria and Handel's Dixit Dominus in Paris (TCE); Don Giovanni, debuting
as Donna Anna in Tel Aviv then in Padua; Le Nozze di
Figaro (Susanna) in Verona (Teatro Filarmonico); Il Bravo
(Violetta) in Wexford; Rinaldo (Almirena); Les pêcheurs de perles at the Liceu
in Barcelona and Dortmund; Turandot and Les Contes d'Hofffmann
in Beijing; Shostakovich's Symphony n.14 with the Orchestre
Philharmonique de Strasbourg; Maria Stuarda in Lisbon; La Traviata in Madrid.
Her upcoming engagements include: Juditha Thriumphans in Lyon and Paris; La Traviata in Geneva, London and Seattle; Les pêcheurs de perles in
Oviedo; Antonia in Les Contes d'Hofffmann and Nedda in Pagliacci in Zurich; Mahler's 4th Symphony at the Teatro Regio in Turin.
July 2020