Svetlana Rozhok

• Diploma holder of the International Hopes, Talents, Masters Festival-Competition (Bulgaria, 2007)

Svetlana Rozhok was born in Khabarovsk. She graduated from the musical department of the Pedagogical College (1988) and the Khabarovsk State Institute for Arts and Culture having studied choral conducting with L. Zhuromskaya in 1997.

She took lessons with Alexander Vedernikov in Moscow and Professor Zinaida Didenko in Novosibirsk. She has participated in master classes by Alexandrina Milcheva (Bulgaria, 2007).

In 1998 she began working in the Khabarovsk Theatre of Musical Comedy.

Between 2001 and 2012 she was a soloist of the Novosibirsk State Philharmonic. In 2002 she participated in the International Sviridov Competition for Chamber Vocalists in the city of Kursk.

In May 2019, she participated in the tour performances of the Tsar's Bride opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov directed by Vyacheslav Starodubtsev in the Zaryadye concert hall (Moscow) and in the Mariinsky-2 (St Petersburg).

In 2013 she became a soloist of the Primorsky Opera and Ballet Theatre. Since 2016 she has been a member of the Opera Company of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre.

Repertoire at the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre includes:
Giovanna (Rigoletto, G. Verdi);
Marcellina (Le nozze di Figaro, W.-A. Mozart);
Filippyevna (Eugene Onegin, P. Tchaikovsky);
Governess (The Queen of Spades, P. Tchaikovsky);
Saburova, Petrovna (The Tsar’s Bride, N. Rimsky-Korsakov);
Povarikha, Tkachikha (The Tale of the Tsar Saltan, N. Rimsky-Korsakov);
Women with a violet-coloured nose (Christmas Eve, N. Rimsky-Korsakov);
Dunyasha (War and Peace, S. Prokofiev);
Fata Morgana, Smeraldina (The Love for Three Oranges, S. Prokofiev);
Neighbor (Mavra, I. Stravinsky);
Bobylikha (The Snow Maiden, N. Rimsky-Korsakov);
The Grandmother (Babka) (The Turnip, R. Sagdiev);
The Grandmother (Scenes from the Life of Nikolenka Irtenev, S. Banevich);
Murka Barsikovna (Murych the Cat, S. Banevich);
Atamansha (Town Musicians of Bremen, G. Gladkov).

Repertoire also includes:
Old Gypsy (Aleko, S. Rachmaninov), Khivra, 3^rd Woman (Semyon Kotko, S. Prokofiev), Gradmother Vasilissa, Alexei's Mother (The Story of a Real Man, S. Prokofiev), Xenia’s nurse (Boris Godunov, M. Musorgsky), Woman (Doctor Zhivago, A. Lubchenko), A Dubious Old Woman (The Gambler, S. Prokofiev).