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.

Herodias / Salome, Néris / Medea and Marfa * in Claus Guth's new production Chowanschtschina under the direction of Vladimir Jurowski at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, Kundry / Parsifal * with Hartmut Haenchen at the Wiener Staatsoper, Amneris in the new production of Aida at the Grand-Théâtre de Genève, Erda / Das Rheingold * at the Leipzig Opera and Azucena in Dmitri Tcherniakov's new production of Il Trovatore at the Cologne Opera were among her projects in the 19/20 season. In addition, she sang concerts with the Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest under Hartmut Haenchen and Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in Nuremberg.

In the last few seasons Marina sang the roles of: Herodias/Salome at the Vienna State Opera, Azucena/Il Trovatore at the opera houses in Cologne and Leipzig as well as Amneris in the new production Aida at the Grand-Théâtre de Genève. She also sang Richard Danielpours Elegies on a tour through the Netherlands with the Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest and Hartmut Haenchen and Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in Nuremberg.

In the summer of 2021, Marina Prudenskaya sang the role of Mary in the production of The Flying Dutchman in Bayreuth and in the same role at the opening of the 2021/22 season at the Bavarian State Opera.

Further engagements of the 2021/22 season: at the Berlin State Opera The composer/Ariadne auf Naxos and Maddalena/Rigoletto, at the Leipzig Opera  Erda/ Das Rheingold und Siegfried; and for the first time in the role of Kundry/Parsifal at the Opera Bastille.
This season's concerts take her to Rome for Schnittke’s Faust Cantata with Antonio Pappano and the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionael di Santa Cecilia, to Hamburg for Missa Solemnis with Hamburger Sinfoniker as well as to Houston for Verdi’s Requiem.

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