The rising opera star Zinaida Tsarenko, winner of the two highest awards at the XVII International Tchaikovsky Competition, is going to take part in two performances of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre in April.
The singer will perform one of the leading female parts in Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera The Tsar’s Bride on April 10, 2024. Also, she will give a stage embodiment to one of the main characters, Princess Eboli, in Giuseppe Verdi’s Don Carlo on April 14, 2024.
Zinaida Tsarenko is a native of Khabarovsk; she spent her youth in the settlement of Terney, Primorsky Region. In 2022, she took part in a Mariinsky Theatre opera performance for the first time, having flawlessly performed the part of Olga in Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (chamber version). That was also when she made her debut on the New Stage of the Theatre, singing the part of Lyubasha (The Tsar’s Bride). The most notable award the young singer has won at the moment is the Grand Prix of the XVII International Tchaikovsky Competition. After her triumphant victory, Zinaida Tsarenko took part in the tour of the Mariinsky Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev in Beijing, at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, in Tashkent, and in Vladivostok. The singer’s repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre includes the parts of Fenena (Nabucco), Emilia (Verdi’s Otello), Joan of Arc (The Maid of Orleans).
In April, the singer will grace The Tsar’s Bride by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Don Carlo by Giuseppe Verdi. “Zinaida Tsarenko’s debut as the seductive Princess Eboli has become one of the undoubted successes of the St Petersburg production. The singer’s charismatic acting and confessional interpretation of the image, together with her rich voice timbre, have attracted the attention of the public”, says The Musical Klondike online publication about the singer’s first performance.
