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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 is a welcome guest at the most renowned houses and festivals worldwide, including the Royal Opera House Covent Garden (Azucena/Il trovatore), Teatro Real de Madrid, Palau de les Arts in Valencia, Zurich Opera (Gertrud u. Witch/Hansel and Gretel), Teatro Municipal de Santiago de Chile, Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden (Preziosilla/La forza del destino), Bavarian State Opera Munich (Octavian/Der Rosenkavalier), State Opera Hamburg (Amneris/Aida), Nationaltheater Mannheim (Eboli/Don Carlos), Opera Vlaanderen Antwerpen (Lady Macbeth/Macbeth), and Washington National Opera, as well as the Bayreuth Festival (Fricka/Walküre, Waltraute/Götterdämmerung), and the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence.
She collaborated 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.

In addition, Marina Prudenskaya is very sought after after as a concert artist. Highlights include Verdi‘s Messa da Requiem with the Berlin Philharmonic and under the baton of Mariff Jansons at the Salzburg Easter Festival, Janacek’s Glagolitic Mass with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and Philippe Jordan at Wiener Konzerthaus, Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with Vladimir Jurowski Bolshoi Theater Moscow, Berlioz‘ Les nuits d’été at Philharmonie Dresden, as well as Verdi’s Requiem with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, each under the baton of Marek Janowski. Furthermore, she sang concerts i.a. at the Philharmonie am Gasteig Munich, Philharmonie Cologne, Musikverein Vienna, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, as well as at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées.

In recent seasons she has sung Herodias/Salome at the Vienna State Opera, Azucena/Il Trovatore at the Cologne and Leipzig operas, Amneris in the new production of Aida at the Grand-Théâtre de Genève, as well as Mary in Der Fliegende Holländers in Bayreuth and at the Bavarian State Opera. In addition, Prudenskaya sang the composer in Ariadne auf Naxos, Maddalena in Rigoletto, Waltraute and Erda in Das Rheingold and Siegfried, and for the first time the role of Kundry in Parsifal. Last season, 2022/23, she was very popular in the sympohonic repertoire. Among others, she sang Schnittke's Faust Cantata in Rome, Missa Solemnis in Hamburg and Verdi's Requiem in Houston.

In the upcoming season 2023/24 Marina Prudenskaya will take on a variety of roles. Among them at the Staatsoper unter den Linden: Herodias in Salome, Neris in Médée, Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier, Ortrud in Lohengrin and Marfa in Khovanshchina. In addition, she will be heard as Fricka (Das Rheigold) at the Royal Opera House in London and as Mescalina (Le Grand Macabre) at the Vienna State Opera.

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Artist Website

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Management

General Management

Artist Manager

Boris Orlob
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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

Season start at the ROH in London

Marina Prudenskaya begins her 23/24 season with a new production of Wagner’s “Rheingold” by Barrie Kosky. Under the musical direction of Antonio PAppano she will portray the role of Fricka, together with Christopher Maltman as Wotan and Christopher Purves as Alberich at the Royal Opera House in London.
(Premiere: September 11th, further performances: September 14th, 17th, 20th, 23rd, 26th, 29th)