Ekaterina Scherbachenko studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Marina Alekseeva and has triumphed in numerous competitions, including the BBC’s Singer of the World Competition in Cardiff in 2009. She acquired her earliest stage experiences at the Stanislawski Opera in Moscow. In 2005 Scherbachenko transferred to the Bolshoi Theater, where she appeared as Natasha in Prokofiev’s War and Peace, as Puccini’s Liù and Mimì, Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta and Tatiana, and Micaëla in Bizet’s Carmen. She has performed with the Bolshoi Ensemble at the Palais Garnier in Paris and at La Scala in Milan. Additional engagements have taken her to the Royal Opera House in London, Bavarian Staatsoper, Teatro Real in Madrid, and Opéra de Monte-Carlo. She made her debuts at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 2013 and at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence in 2015. She also appears regularly as a concert singer, as most recently in Britten’s War Requiem in Lyon and Tokyo.

August 2019