The mezzo-soprano Marina Prudenskaya is one of the distinguished singers of her field and has been a member of the ensemble of Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin since 2013. Her artistic career has taken her to numerous renowned opera houses and the world’s leading festivals, including the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Wiener Staatsoper, Opéra de Paris, Bayerische Staatsoper, Opernhaus Zürich, Washington National Opera, Staatsoper Hamburg, Teatro Real de Madrid, Teatro Municipal de Santiago de Chile and Palau de les Arts Valencia, as well as the Bayreuther Festspiele and Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. She has worked with conductors including Daniel Barenboim, Philippe Jordan, Christian Thielemann, Vladimir Jurowski, Mariss Jansons, Hartmut Haenchen, Marek Janowski, Simone Young, Fabio Luisi, Daniel Harding, Sebastian Weigle, Plácido Domingo, Paolo Carignani and Markus Poschner.
The 2026/27 season begins for Marina Prudenskaya at her home theatre with a role debut as Dalila (Samson et Dalila), followed by roles as La Grande Vestale (La Vestale) and Preziosilla, Curra (La forza del destino). She will also appear as Venus (Tannhäuser) at Oper Frankfurt and as La Principessa Eboli (Don Carlos) at Opernhaus Zürich.
Recent engagements include Brangäne (Tristan und Isolde) in concert performances at the Finnish National Opera under the direction of Hannu Lintu and with the London Symphony Orchestra under Antonio Pappano. In the concert field, she appeared with Verdi’s Messa da Requiem at the Dresdner Musikfestspiele. At the Wiener Staatsoper, she also appeared as Mescalina (Le Grand Macabre).
Her extensive repertoire includes the major Wagner roles, including Brangäne (Finnish National Opera, London Symphony Orchestra), Waltraute (Bayreuther Festspiele), Fricka (Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Bayreuther Festspiele) and Kundry (Opéra de Paris, Deutsche Oper Berlin). Another pillar of her international repertoire is the major Verdi roles: Amneris (Grand Théâtre de Genève), La Principessa Eboli (Opernhaus Zürich, Nationaltheater Mannheim), Azucena (Royal Opera House Covent Garden) and Lady Macbeth (Opera Ballet Vlaanderen). Her repertoire also encompasses important Strauss roles: Herodias (Wiener Staatsoper), Octavian / Der Rosenkavalier (Bayerische Staatsoper), and Die Amme / Die Frau ohne Schatten (Deutsche Oper Berlin). As a member of the ensemble at Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, Marina Prudenskaya regularly performs the roles of Herodias (Salome), Venus (Tannhäuser), Waltraute (Götterdämmerung), Marfa (Chowanschtschina), Amneris (Aida), Komponist (Ariadne auf Naxos), Gertrud (Hänsel und Gretel), La Principessa Eboli (Don Carlos), Azucena (Il trovatore), Lady Macbeth (Macbeth), Néris (Medea), Euphrat (Babylon) and Fenena (Nabucco).
In the concert field, Marina Prudenskaya’s engagements have taken her to the Salzburger Osterfestspiele with Verdi’s Messa da Requiem and the Berliner Philharmoniker, to the Wiener Konzerthaus with Janáček’s Glagolitischer Messe and the Wiener Symphoniker, and to the Bolshoi Theatre Moscow with Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, as well as with Berlioz’s Les nuits d’été, Mahler’s 3. Sinfonie, concert performances of Tristan und Isolde with the Dresdner Philharmonie and Verdi’s Messa da Requiem with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Further concerts have taken her, among other venues, to the Philharmonien in Berlin and Cologne, as well as the Gasteig München, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Musikverein Wien, Concertgebouw Amsterdam and Théâtre des Champs-Élysées.
Marina Prudenskaya studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory and received her first engagement at the Stanislavsky Theatre Moscow. She subsequently moved to Staatstheater Nürnberg, before becoming a member of the ensembles of Deutsche Oper Berlin (2005–2007), Staatsoper Stuttgart (2007–2013) and, ultimately, Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin. Her distinctions include, among others, winning the ARD International Music Competition in 2003.