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Biography

Following her studies at the conservatory in her native St. Petersburg, Marina Prudenskaya was engaged by the Stanislavsky Theatre in Moscow. In 2000, she changed to the Staatstheater Nuremberg, where she went on to acquire numerous roles of her repertoire. In addition to several other awards, she won the German ARD music competition in 2003.

From 2005 until 2007, she was a member of the ensemble at Deutsche Oper Berlin, followed by a period as an ensemble member at the Stuttgart State Opera. Since 2013, Marina Prudenskaya is a member of the ensemble at Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, performing roles including Herodias/Salome, Venus/Tannhäuser, Komponist/Ariadne auf Naxos, Gertrud/Hansel and Gretel, Eboli/Don Carlos, Azucena/Il trovatore, Lady Macbeth/Macbeth, Néris/Medea, as well as The Euphrat in Widmann’s Babylon.

Marina Prudenskaya has performed at renowned venues and festivals worldwide, including the Royal Opera House Covent Garden (Azucena/Il trovatore and Fricka/Das Rheingold and Die Walküre), Teatro Real de Madrid, Palau de les Arts in Valencia, Zurich Opera House (Gertrud and Witch/Hansel and Gretel), (Mescalina/Le Grand Macabre and Herodias/Salome) at the Vienna State Opera, Teatro Municipal de Santiago de Chile, (Kundry/Parsifal) at the Opéra de Paris and the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where she also made her debut as the Nurse in Frau ohne Schatten, the Staatsoper unter den Linden (Fenena/Nabucco), the Bavarian State Opera in Munich (Octavian/Der Rosenkavalier), Hamburg State Opera and the Grand-Théâtre de Genève (Amneris/Aida), Nationaltheater Mannheim (Eboli/Don Carlos), Opera Vlaanderen Antwerp (Lady Macbeth/Macbeth) and Washington National Opera, as well as the Bayreuth Festival (Fricka/Walküre, Waltraute/Götterdämmerung) and the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence.

There she worked with conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Philippe Jordan, Christian Thielemann, Mariss Jansons, Hartmut Haenchen, Marek Janowski, Simone Young, Fabio Luisi, Daniel Harding, Sebastian Weigle, Plácido Domingo, Paolo Carignani and Markus Poschner.

Marina Prudenskaya is also in high demand as a concert singer. Highlights include Verdi's Requiem with the Berlin Philharmonic at the Salzburg Easter Festival under Mariss Jansons, Janáček's Glagolitic Mass with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and Philippe Jordan at the Vienna Konzerthaus, Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde with Vladimir Jurowski at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Berlioz's Les nuits d'été and concert performances of Tristan und Isolde at the Dresden Philharmonic and Verdi's Messa da Requiem with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, both conducted by Marek Janowski. Further concerts have taken her to the Berlin Philharmonie, the Philharmonie am Gasteig in Munich, the Cologne Philharmonie, the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, among others.

In the 2025/26 season, Marina Prudenskaya will appear as Brangäne in concert performances of Tristan und Isolde at the Finnish National Opera under the baton of Hannu Lintu and later with the London Symphony Orchestra under Robert Harston. She will also perform Verdi's Requiem at the Dresden Music Festival.
At her home theatre, Marina Prudenskaya can be seen as Waltraute/Die Götterdämmerung, Marfa/Chowanschtschina, Amneris/Aida, and La Principessa Eboli/Don Carlo. Further engagements take her to the Vienna State Opera as Mescalina/Le Grand Macabre.

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Artist Website

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Management

General Management

Artist Manager

Boris Orlob
Managing Director
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Repertoire

Repertoire Concert

Bach, J.S.	B minor mass
	Christmas Oratorio
	Magnificat
	Mass in A major
	Mass in F major
	St. John Passion
	St. Matthew Passion
Beethoven	Symphony no 9
	Mass C major
	Missa solemnis
Berlioz	Les nuits d’été
	Romeo et Juliette (Symph dramatique)
Brahms	Rhapsodie Op. 53 (für eine Altstimme und Männerchor)
Coerper, Helmut	Stimme im Dunkeln
Dvorak	Requiem
	Stabat Mater
Elgar	Sea Pictures, Op. 37
de Falla	El amor brujo
	Siete Canciones populares Espanolas
Granados	Tonadillas
Händel	Dettingen Te Deum
	Dixit Dominus
	Samson
Hartmann	Sinfonie Nr.1 “Versuch eines Requiems”
Honneger	Le Roi David
Ligeti	Fünf Arany Lieder(Janos Arany)
	Requiem
Mahler	Das Lied von der Erde
	Kindertotenlieder
	Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
	Symphony no 2
	Symphony no 3
Maxwell Davies, P.	Canticum Canticorum
Mendelssohn	Elias
Mozart	Coronation Mass C major
	Mass C minor
	Mass G major
	Missa brevis
	Requiem
Mussorgsky	Songs and Dances of Death
Pergolesi	Stabat Mater
Peter, Maxwell Davies	Canticum Canticorum (2001)
Prokofiev	Alexander Nevski
	Iwan Grosny/Iwan der Schreckliche
von Reznicek	Vier Bet-und Bussgesänge
Schmidt	Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln
Schnittke	Seid nüchtern und wachet
Schostakowitsch	From Jewish Folk Poetry op. 79
	Six poems of Marina Zwetajewa op.143
	Spanish Songs
Schumann	Frauenliebe und -leben
Skrjabin, A. N.	Symphony no 1
Tschaikowski	Kantate "Moskva"
	Ode "K radosti" (Zur Freude)
Verdi	Requiem
Vivaldi	Gloria
Wagner	Französische Lieder
	Wesendonck-Lieder
Weinberg, M.	Aus Poesie Petöfis Op. 70

Repertoire Opera

Bellini	I Capuleti i e Montecchi	Romeo
	Norma	Adalgisa
Berg	Wozzek	Marie
Bizet	Carmen	Carmen
Boesmans	Wintermärchen	Paulina
Britten	Peter Grimes	Auntie
Dargomyschski	Rusalka	Die Fürstin
Giordano	Andrea Chénier	Bersi
Glinka	Ruslan & Ludmila	Ratmir
Gluck	Iphigenie in Aulis	Klytemnestra (French&German)
	Orpheus und Eurydike	Orpheus (Wiener Fassung, Ital.)
Händel	Alcina	Bradamante
	Ariodante	Ariodante
	Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno	Disinganno
Humperdink	Hänsel und Gretel	Gertrud
		Hänsel
		Hexe
Lortzing	Der Wildschütz	Die Gräfin
Meyerbeer	Margherita d’Anjou	Isaura
Mozart	Così fan tutte	Dorabella
	Die Zauberflöte	3. Dame
	Le nozze di Figaro	Cherubino
		Marcellina
	Lucio Silla	Cecilio
Mussorgsky	Boris Godunov	Marina
	Chowantschina	Marfa
Nicolai	Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor	Frau Reich
Offenbach	Les contes d'Hoffmann	La Muse / Nicklausse
Poulenc	Dialogues des Carmélites	Mère Marie
Puccini	Gianni Schicchi	Zita
	Madama Butterfly	Suzuki
	Suor Angelica	La zia principessa
Purcell	Dido and Aenaes	Dido
		First Witch
Rimski-Korsakov	The Snow Maiden	Lel, Spring
	The Tsar's Bride	Ljubascha
Rossini	Il barbiere di Siviglia	Rosina
	L’equivoco stravagante	Ernestina
	Semiramide	Arsace
Shostakovich	Lady Macbeth von Mzensk	Sonetka (Ger.&Russ.)
Strauss, J.	Die Fledermaus	Prinz Orlofsky
Strauss, R.	Ariadne auf Naxos	Komponist
	Der Rosenkavalier	Octavian
	Salome	Herodias
Stravinsky	Le Rossignol	Die Köchin
Tchaikovsky	Eugene Onegin	Larina
		Olga
	Pique Dame	Polina
Verdi	Aida	Amneris
	Don Carlos	Eboli
	Il trovatore	Azucena
	La forza del destino	Preziosilla
	La traviata	Flora
	Luisa Miller	Federica
	Macbeth	Lady Macbeth
	Nabucco	Fenena
	Rigoletto	Maddalena
	Un ballo in maschera	Ulrica
Vivaldi	Orlando Furioso	Alcina
		Bradamante
Wagner	Das Rheingold	Erda
		Flosshilde
		Fricka
	Der fliegende Holländer	Mary
	Die Walküre	Fricka
		Grimgerde
		Schwertleite
		Siegrune
	Götterdämmerung	1. Norn
		2. Norn
		Flosshilde
		Waltraute
	Siegfried	Erda
	Tannhäuser	Venus
	Tristan und Isolde	Brangäne
Widmann	Babylon	The Euphrat

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News

Ring at the State Opera Unter den Linden

We are thrilled that Sonja Herranen (making her role debut as Freia), Marina Prudenskaya (Waltraute in Götterdämmerung), Andreas Schager (Siegfried), and Mika Kares (Fasolt, Hunding, Hagen) will appear in leading roles in the revival of Der Ring at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, conducted by GMD Christian Thielemann, from 27 September to 12 October 2025.

Further information and performances:
www.staatsoper-berlin.de

BOM artists at the Bregenz Festival

The Bregenz Festival 2025 kicks off with new faces, including several artists from BOM.
In George Enescu's Oedipe (16, 20 and 28 July), Marina Prudenskaya will perform as Jocaste, Tuomas Pursio as Créon and Iris Candelaria as Antigone. Hannu Lintu will conduct, and Andreas Kriegenburg will direct.
In Rossini's La Cenerentola (12th, 13th and 15th August), Aaron Godfrey-Mayes will interpret the role of Don Ramiro under the musical direction of Kaapo Ijas and directed by Amy Lane.
BOM artists will also be represented on the concert stage: Marjukka Tepponen will sing the soprano part in Sibelius' Kullervo with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra on 27 July, and Sonja Herranen will perform in Mahler's 4th Symphony with the Vorarlberg Symphony Orchestra on 17 August.
In addition, Thomas Florio will enrich the festival programme on 19 July with the baritone part in Eight Songs for a Mad King, and Michael Borth will do the same on 17, 18 and 19 July as Kilian in Weber's Freischütz.

Clear the stage for the Nurse

Richard Strauss' opera Die Frau ohne Schatten can be experienced at the Deutsche Oper Berlin from 26 January 2025 under the musical direction of Sir Donald Runnicles.
Marina Prudenskaya will make her debut in the central role of the Nurse alongside an ensemble of international top singers in a highly anticipated production by Tobias Kratzer.

Further information about the production:
www.deutscheoperberlin.de