Biography

Eugenia Dushina studied at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow and also began her singing career in Russia, where she appeared on a number of operatic stages. As a soloist of Moscow’s historic Natalya Sats Musical Theater, she sang smaller roles in works such as Bizet’s Carmen and Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges. Before long she was making guest appearances in major roles all over Russia such as ​Tatyana​ ​in Eugene Onegin and ​Mimi​ ​in La Bohème at the Saratov opera theater , ​Nedda​ ​in Pagliacci and Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta at the Krasnoyarsk State opera and Magnitogorsk opera.

In ​2016,​ she moved to Europe in order to develop her career. While completing postgraduate studies at Vienna’s University of Music and Performing Arts in 2017, she made her European debut as ​Nedda​ i​n Pagliacci for the Oper Klosterneuburg Festival in Vienna and was hailed by the Austrian newspaper “Kurier” as “the discovery of the evening”. She has also sung​ ​Alice Ford​ ​in Verdi’s Falstaff, ​Rosalinde​ i​n Strauss’s Die Fledermaus, Donna Elvira​ ​in Mozart’s Don Giovanni and ​Tatyana​ i​n Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Oneghin in Schlosstheater Schönbrunn.

Since ​2017 ​she is a freelance opera singer and has added to her repertoire several leading roles as ​Violetta Valery​ i​n La traviata of Verdi and ​Leila​ ​ in Les pêcheurs de perles of Bizet.

The beginning of the season ​2018-2019 ​opened to Eugenia with a big debut in Asia in South Korea/Daegu Opera Festival in cooperation with the biggest world known operette festival Seefestspiele Mörbisch in October, she presented the role of ​Hanna Hlawari​ ​from ​Merry Widow ​of Lehar. She was shining as wonderful ​Nedda​ in production „Pagliacci“ of Dalia Ibelhauptaite in Lithuania. Than followed the debut with ​Liu​ ​in the co-production of Vilnius National opera theatre and the Royal Opera theatre of Madrid, in the opera of Puccini’s Turandot- stage director Robert Wilson. In summer she was debuting as ​Giulietta​ ​in „Les contes d‘Hoffmann“ of J.Offenbach in Oper Klosterneuburg in Wien, stage director François de Carpentries

In the ​2019-2021 ​she will appear as ​Violetta​ Valery ​ in Verdi’s Traviata in Opera Toulon, as ​Donna Elvira​ ​in Don Giovanni of Mozart in the production of Theater Lübeck, as ​Liu​ ​in Robert Wilson Production of Turandot in Vilnius National Opera Theater, as ​Gretchen​ ​in Schumann’s Faust scenes in Opera Bergen and as a​ ​Soprano​ ​in Orff‘s Carmina Burana in Tournee in China.

Eugenia Dushina has won prizes at several major international competitions including the Grand Prix Maria Callas, Feruccio Tagliavini Competition, and Glinka International Vocal Contest. In addition to her operatic roles, she has appeared on important concert stages all over Europe and Russia, and her work has also been recorded. She has performed in Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera-ballet ​The Golden Cockerel​ at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, participated in the Russian premiere of Britten’s ​Death in Venice​, which was conducted in a concert performance by Gennady Rozhdestvensky in Moscow, and was a featured soloist in Vladimir Ashkenazy’s recording of Rachmaninov’s ​Monna Vanna​, made for the Ondine label.

Repertoire:
Bizet: Micaella “Carmen”
Bizet: Leila “Les pecheurs de perles”
Lehar: Hanna „Merry Widow”
Leoncavallo: Nedda „Pagliacci”
Mozart: Fiordiligi “Cosi Fan tutte”
Mozart: Donna Elvira, Donna Anna “Don Giovanni“
Offenbach: Giulietta, Antonia “Les contes d’Hoffmann”
Puccini: Mimi, Musetta „La Boheme“
Puccini: Liu „Turandot“
Rimskiy-Korsakow: Fevronia “Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh”
Strauss: Rosalinde „Die Fledermaus“
Tchaikovsky: Tatyana „Eugene Oneghin“
Tchaikovsky: Iolanta „Iolanta“
Verdi: Alice „Falstaff“
Verdi: Violetta „La Traviata“
C.Orff: “Carmina Burana”
Wolf-Ferrari: Susanna “Il segreto di Susanna”
Schumann: Gretchen, Poeticum etc… “Faust scenes”
Verdi: Leonora „Il Trovatore“
Gounod: Marguerite „Faust“

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