Margarita Polonskaya Soprano

Biography

Trained at the Paris Opera Academy
Member of the Paris Opera Lyric Troupe

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 Ferruccio 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 by Tan Dun). In 2022, she performed Pamina (The Magic Flute) at the Immling Festival. With the Paris Opera Academy, that she joined in September 2022 for two seasons, she sang Giulia (La Scala di seta) at the Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jouvet and Anna Maurrant (Street Scenes) at the MC93 in Bobigny, among others. 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, performing in Paris, Venice, and at the Internationale Musikfestspiele Saar.

Margarita Polonskaya has won the AROP 2022-2023 prize, the 29^th Cercle Carpeaux lyric prize, and was a prizewinner at the 15^th Concours international de la mélodie de Gordes. She has recently performed Stabat Mater by 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 Paris Opera Lyric Troupe for the 2024-2025 season.

At the Paris Opera: The Magic Flute (Erste Dame), 2022, 2024; L'Enfant et les Sortilèges (la Princesse), 2023