Olesya Petrova is a very sought-after mezzo-soprano and has toured Europe, the USA, South America, South Korea, China, Japan, and New Zealand. Her singing career is diverse and dynamic on the concert and opera stage. She has appeared on the stages of some of the world’s most prestigious opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden (a house debut as Amneris in Robert Carsen’s Aida in 2023), the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and the Teatro Real in Madrid, among others.
For four years, Olesya Petrova has been a guest star at the Arena di Verona Festival: in 2017, she made her debut in one of her signature roles as Amneris in Aida, a role she reprised in 2021, 2022, and at the 100th edition of the Opera Festival in 2023.
Since her 2014 debut in a production of Andrea Chénier in the role of Madelon, she has returned to the Metropolitan Opera stage performing as Amneris/Aida (2018/2019, 2022/2023), Frederica/Luisa Miller (2018), and the voice of Antonia’s mother/Les Contes d’Hoffmann (2015, 2017). She is to perform as Ulrica/Un Ballo in maschera (2023/2024).
In 2019, Olesya Petrova appeared at the Deutsche Oper Berlin as the Princess of Bouillon in Adriana Lecouvreur, alongside Anna Netrebko in the title role and Yusif Eyvazov in the role of Maurizio. In 2018 Olesya Petrova made her Bolshoi Theatre debut, performing the role of Polina in a production premiere of The Queen of Spades (conducted by Tugan Sokhiev and directed by Rimas Tuminas). As a guest soloist, in recent seasons she also appeared with the Greek National Opera (Ulrica/Un ballo in maschera and Suzuki/Madama Butterfly), the Opernhaus Zürich (Konchakovna/Prince Igor), the Latvian National Opera (Azucena/Il trovatore and Amneris/Aida), the Hamburger Staatsoper (Mrs. Sedley/Peter Grimes and Federica/Luisa Miller), Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu (Emilia/Otello), the San Diego Opera (Amneris/Aida), the Opéra de Montréal (Fenena/Nabucco and Amneris/Aida), the Opera Østfold (Azucena/Il Trovatore), the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre (Joan/The Maid of Orleans and the Duenna/Betrothal in a Monastery).
Olesya Petrova collaborates with many theatres, concert halls, orchestras, and chamber ensembles around the world and has worked with Giordano Bellincampi, Emmanuel Villaume, Valery Gergiev, Leo Kremer, Fabio Mastrangelo, Vladimir Fedoseev, and other renowned conductors.
