On 13 November at Mariinsky-2 the part of Gilda in Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Rigoletto was brilliantly performed by Guzel Sharipova. It was the first performance of the Primorsky Stage Opera soloist in St Petersburg. She was partnered with the Mariinsky soloists Edem Umerov and Sergei Skorokhodov.
Guzel Sharipova has been a soloist of the opera company of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre since July 2017. In Vladivostok, the singer has debuted in such important soprano parts as Oxana in Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s Christmas Night and Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto. The artist’s repertoire also includes Violetta Valery in La traviata by Giuseppe Verdi, Swan-Princess in The Tale of Tsar Saltan and Marfa in Tsar’s Bride by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. She is particularly noted for her ,great vocal power and immense acting abilities. Guzel Sharipova graduated from the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music (class of G. V. Oleinichenko). From 2009 to 2012, she sang in the Alexandrov Ensemble of the Russian Armed Forces, afterwards she joined the theatre company Stage Entertainment, where she performed in the musicals The Little Mermaid and Phantom of the Opera (2012-2015).
The Primorsky Stage soloists regularly undergo internship in St Petersburg and take part in the Mariinsky Theatre tour projects. In August-September 2017, the Primorsky Stage artists were joined on stage by the Mariinsky singers for the presentation of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Simon Boccanegra in Khabarovsk and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. In October 2016, the Primorsky Stage opera company soloists participated in the Mariinsky Theatre tour in China where they performed in Andrey Konchalovsky’s production of War and Peace by Sergei Prokofiev together with the Mariinsky Symphony Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev.
