The temperamental ‘acting singer’ Zhanna Dombrovskaya gave the fierily assertive and desperately decisive character of Elettra the features of a wicked Fury, of a tigress preparing to make her fatal leap.
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Zhanna Dombrovskaya was born in Pyatigorsk. Graduated from the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire (class of Professor Svetlana Gorenkova) and the Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers. Soloist with the St Petersburg State Musorgsky Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet from 2001 to 2003. Mariinsky Theatre soloist since 2003.
Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre includes:
Antonida (A Life for the Tsar)
Lyudmila (Ruslan and Lyudmila)
Agnès Sorel (The Maid of Orleans)
Iolanta (Iolanta)
Kupava (The Snow Maiden)
Volkhova (Sadko)
Oxana (Christmas Eve)
The Queen of Shemakha (The Golden Cockerel)
Podtochina's daughter (The Nose)
Sofia (Semyon Kotko)
Elettra (Idomeneo, re di Creta)
Donna Elvira, Donna Anna (Don Giovanni)
Fiordiligi, Despina (Così fan tutte)
Adina (L'elisir d'amore)
Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor)
Norina (Don Pasquale)
Gilda (Rigoletto)
Violetta (La traviata)
Elena (I vespri siciliani)
Adriana Lecouvreur (Adriana Lecouvreur)
Minnie (La fanciulla del West)
Suor Angelica (Suor Angelica)
Musetta (La bohème)
Ascagne (Les Troyens)
Marguerite (Faust)
Micaëla (Carmen)
Antonia, Giulietta, Olympia's Voice (Les contes d´Hoffmann)
Freia, Woglinde (Das Rheingold)
Gerhilde (Die Walküre)
Waldvogel (Siegfried)
Woglinde (Götterdämmerung)
Klingsor’s Flower Maiden (Parsifal)
Helena (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
Emilia Marty (The Makropulos Affair)
Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus)
as well as soprano roles in Rachmaninoff’s vocal-symphonic poem The Bells, Pergolesi's and Rossini’s Stabat Mater
Repertoire also includes: Tatiana (Eugene Onegin), Concepción (L'Heure espagnole) and the soprano roles in Stravinsky's cantata Les Noces, Orff's Carmina Burana, Bach's Johannespassion, Mozart’s Mass in C minor and Handel's Judas Maccabaeus.
