Margarita Polonskaya
Soprano
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Biography
Trained at the Académie de l'Opéra national de Paris
Member of the Troupe lyrique de l'Opéra national de Paris
Originally from Moscow, Margarita Polonskaya began studying music and theater at an early age. In 2016, she won first prize at the Karpacz International Opera Festival (Poland) and third place in the Russian singing competition Masterpieces of Russian Music. In 2017, she graduated from Moscow's Gnessin Academy. A student at Salzburg's Mozarteum University since 2018, she was a finalist and scholarship holder at the 25th Feruccio Tagliavini International Singing Competition in Deutschlandsberg and received the Ein Gianna Szel scholarship.
She won a scholarship from the Amicitia Association of Friends of Young Artists. She appears at the Mozarteum University's Opera Studio, where she sings the roles of Marguerite (Faust), Poppea (The Coronation of Poppea) and Ritualist (Tea de Tan Dun). In 2022, she sings Pamina (The Magic Flute) at the Immling Festival. With the Académie de l'Opéra national de Paris, which she joins in September 2022 for two seasons, she notably plays Giulia (La Scala di seta) at the Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jouvet and Anna Maurrant (Street Scenes) at the MC93 in Bobigny.
She sang the role of Prince Ozia (La Giuditta) at the Auditorium du Musée du Louvre. Margarita Polonskaya took part in the concert tour “Les compositrices et la mélodie française”, in partnership with the Palazzetto Bru Zane, in Paris, Venice and at the Internationale Musikfestspiele Saar. She has won the AROP 2022-2023 prize, the 29th Cercle Carpeaux lyric prize, and was a prizewinner at the 15th Concours international de la mélodie de Gordes. She has recently performed the Stabat Mater Pergolèse in Oppède-le-Vieux, Mimi (La Bohème) in Autun and Eurydice (Orphée et Eurydice) in Saint-Guillaume and Strasbourg. She is a member of the Troupe lyrique de l'Opéra national de Paris for the 2024-2025 season.
At the Opéra national de Paris: La Flûte enchantée (Erste Dame), 2022; L'Enfant et les Sortilèges (la Princesse), 2023
