Overview
Biography
Olga Alexandrovna Peretyatko (Russian: Ольга Александровна Перетятько; born 21 May 1980 in Leningrad) is a Russian operatic soprano. She is particularly known for the roles in the bel canto and Mozartian repertoire.
Early life
Peretyatko was born in Leningrad but moved to Visaginas when she was 7 to live with her mother. In 1995 she returned to her hometown, then St. Petersburg, to live her father, a baritone singer in the choir of the Mariinsky Theatre. She then joined the Mariinsky Children's Choir, singing second alto. In 2002 she entered the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" in Berlin and the opera studio of Hamburg State Opera in 2005. In 2007 she received the second prize at Operalia Competition.
Career
Her repertory includes operas from Handel and Mozart to Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss. A participant at the Accademia Rossiniana in Pesaro, she has regularly sung at the Rossini Opera Festival: Corinna and Contessa di Folleville (Il viaggio a Reims, 2006), Desdemona (Otello, 2007), Giulia (La scala di seta, 2009), Aldamira (Sigismondo, 2010), and the title role in Matilde di Shabran (2012). In 2013 she sang during the Mozartwoche in Salzburg. In 2014, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Elvira in Bellini's I puritani.
Peretyatko gained international attention as Stravinsky's Rossignol in Robert Lepage's production that premiered in Toronto in 2009, then presented at the Aix Festival in 2010 and subsequently at the Opéra de Lyon, the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York and Netherlands Opera in Amsterdam. She achieved great success in her role debuts as Adina in L'elisir d'amore in Lille, in the title role of Lucia di Lammermoor at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, as Gilda in Rigoletto at La Fenice in Venice, as well as at the Festival Avenches. In 2013 and 2014, Peretyatko's commitments included the Mozart Weeks, Salzburg Festival (Giunia in Lucio Silla), debuts at the Vienna State Opera, Zürich Opera House (Rigoletto), the Berlin State Opera and La Scala in Milan (Marfa in Die Zarenbraut), and performances at the Deutsche Oper Berlin (Adina in L'elisir d'amore).
In 2015, Peretyatko debuted to rave reviews as Violetta in La traviata at the Opéra Lausanne, followed by a new production of the same title at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden. She returned to the Vienna State Opera for I puritani, to La Scala in Milan for Rossini's Otello, to the Metropolitan Opera in New York for Rigoletto, along with debuts at the Teatro Regio in Turin in I puritani, at the Tivoli in Copenhagen and at La Monnaie in Bruxelles in L'elisir d'amore and at the Teatro Real in Madrid in Rigoletto.
In 2017, she sang the main role of Leila in Wim Wender’s take on Bizet’s Les pêcheurs de perles, under musical direction of Daniel Barenboim.
Peretyatko also performed for more than 600,000 people at Le Concert de Paris on 14 July 2014 for the Bastille Day celebrations by the Eiffel Tower.
Awards
- 2007: 2nd Prize in Operalia
- 2014: Best singer in Premio Franco Abbiati della Critica Musicale Italiana [it]
- 2018: Best solo recording for album Russian Light of the Opus Klassik award
- 2019: Traetta Prize
Personal life
Peretyatko married conductor Michele Mariotti in August 2012 after meeting each other while working on Rossini's Sigismondo in Pesaro in 2010. On 29 June 2018 she announced on Facebook the filing of divorce and withdrawal from productions of Don Giovanni at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna in year-end which was conducted by her ex-husband.
