Galina Cheplakova

• Prize-winner at the International Children’s and Youth Creativity Festival-Competition Window to Europe (Saint Petersburg, 2008, 1^st prize)
• Prize-winner at the III Gastasheva North Caucasus Open Competition of Vocalists (Nalchik, 2006, 1^st prize)
• Prize-winner at the XIII International Student Competition of Vocalists Bella voce (Moscow, 2005, 2^nd prize)
• Prize-winner at the Almukhametov Open Republican Contest of Young Singers (Ufa, 2005, 2^nd prize)
• Diploma recipient and winner of the special prize for the best performance of Nariman Sabitov’s work at the IV Sabitov Open Competition of Performing Musicians (Ufa, 2004)
• Prize-winner at the Open Regional Competition of Young Musicians (Ufa, 2004, 1^st prize)
• Prize-winner at the I City Competition of Young Vocalists Debut (Ufa, 2000, 1^st prize)

Galina Cheplakova was born in Ufa, Republic of Bashkortostan. In 2005 she graduated from the Ufa College of Arts (class of Sima Iosifovna Mishuris, Honored Worker of Culture of the Republic of Bashkortostan). In 2010 she graduated with honors from the Academic Vocal Performance Department of the Zagir Ismagilov Ufa State Academy of Arts (class of Prof. Flyura Akhmetsheevna Kildiyarova, People’s Artist of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Bashkortostan, and Milyausha Galeevna Murtazina, Honored Art Worker of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Bashkortostan). In 2009 she trained in Italy.

From 2008 to 2010 Galina Cheplakova combined her studies with her traineeship as an opera singer at the Bashkir State Opera and Ballet Theatre. In 2010 she became a soloist at the same Theatre.

In 2011 she was invited to appear in gala concerts at the XXIX Chaliapin International Opera Festival in Kazan.

Galina Cheplakova is a guest soloist at the Musa Jalil Tatar State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet and Astana Opera.

She has collaborated with such conductors as Kirill Petrenko (Germany), Matteo Beltrami, Marco Boemi, Giuseppe Acquaviva (Italy), Renat Salavatov (Russia), Airat Ichmouratov (Canada), Mika Eichenholz (Sweden), Alla Moskalenko (Ukraine), Miloš Krejčí (Czechia), and Alexander Anisimov (Belarus). 

Since January 2025 Galina Cheplakova has been a soloist of the Opera Company of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre. 

Repertoire includes:
Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti, W.A. Mozart)
Micaëla (Carmen, G. Bizet)
Musetta (La bohème, G. Puccini)
Marguerite (Faust, Ch. Gounod)
Iolanta (Iolanta, P. Tchaikovsky)Tatiana (Eugene Onegin, P. Tchaikovsky)
Violetta (La traviata, G. Verdi)
Mimì (La bohème, G. Puccini)
Francesca (Francesca da Rimini, S. Rachmaninoff)

Her past and current engagements include appearances in the Netherlands (2011, 2012, 2013), Germany (2012), Italy (2012), Belgium (2011, 2013), Germany (Bayerische Staatsoper, 2024), Austria (2025), Germany (Berliner Philharmonie, 2025).