Ekaterina Semenchuk Mezzo-soprano

Biography

Born in Minsk, Russia, Ekaterina Semenchuk began her career on the stage of the Mariinsky Theatre, while she was still a student at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. A finalist in the Cardiff Singer of the World competition, she has appeared in the roles of Lady Macbeth (Macbeth), Azucena (Il Trovatore), Eboli (Don Carlo), Amneris (Aida), la Principessa di Bouillon (Adriana Lecouvreur), Didon (Les Troyens), Santuzza (Cavalleria rusticana), Marina (Boris Godunov), Laura (La Gioconda), Lioubov (Mazeppa), Marfa (La Khovantchina), Dalila (Samson et Dalila), Giovanna Seymour (Anna Bolena), Preziosilla (La forza del destino) and the title role in Carmen. She performs for the leading operatic venues (Metropolitan Opera New York, Paris Opera, Teatro Real Madrid, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Salzburg Festival, New National Theatre Tokyo, Teatro alla Scala Milan…).

In previous seasons, Ekaterina Semenchuk returned to the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich in La forza del destino and Macbeth, the ABAO in Bilbao in Cavalleria rusticana, Teatro alla Scala in Macbeth and the Vienna Staatsoper in Anna Bolena. For the 2022/23 season, she portrayed, among other roles, Azucena and Eboli in Florence, Lady Macbeth at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona and Teatro alla Scala, Amneris in Rome and Munich, Azucena in Bilbao, Abigaïlle (Nabucco) at the Greek National Opera.

On the concert platform, she has sung in Dallapiccola’s The Prisoner with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. During the 2023/24 season, she performs in Il Trovatore in San Francisco and Tel Aviv, Don Carlo and Cavalleria rusticana at Teatro alla Scala, Turandot in Barcelona, Nabucco in Las Palmas and Berlin. Her concert appearances feature Verdi’s Requiem in Vienna, Geneva and Monte-Carlo, the Gurrelieder in Amsterdam, Œdipe roi with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra ant Alexandre Nevski in Rome.