Victoria Karkacheva

Victoria Karkacheva Mezzo-soprano

Biography

Born in the Volgograd region, Victoria Karkacheva graduated from the Popov Academy of Choral Singing in 2015. A graduate of the Young Artists Program of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, she made her operatic debut in the role of Aglaya (Weinberg's The Idiot). She is the winner of the Operalia First Prize and the Birgit Nilsson Prize in 2021, and the winner of the Viñas Competition in 2020. Her roles have included Lyubasha (The Tsar's Bride), Olga (Eugene Onegin), the Third Lady (The Magic Flute), Cherubino (The Marriage of Figaro) and the Witch (Dido and Aeneas). Highlights of recent seasons include Charlotte (Werther) at La Scala in Milan, Olga at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Polina (The Queen of Spades) and Hélène (War and Peace) at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, and Judith (Bluebeard's Castle) at the Opéra national de Lyon, recorded and broadcast by Medici TV.

Concert appearances include Beethoven's Missa Solemnis at the Quincena Musical in San Sebastian, a concert version of Bluebeard's Castle with Josep Pons, Iolanta with Kirill Petrenko and the Berlin Philharmonic at the Baden-Baden Festival. She has appeared at Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu in Mahler's Symphony No. 3, with the Helsinki Philharmonic, and gave a recital with the Stuttgart Philharmonic. In the 2024-2025 season, Victoria Karkacheva will sing Olga at the Teatro Real in Madrid, return to the Bavarian State Opera in Munich as Polina and the title role of Penelope, sing the title role of Carmen at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, and make her debuts at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the Vienna State Opera.

Debut at the Opéra National de Paris

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