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Marina Domashenko
Artist Biography

At 27, Marina Domashenko is already in demand at major opera houses and concert series around the world. Petite, vivacious, with a large, creamy voice of remarkable flexibility, she is at home on the stage in a wide range of music and characterizations. Her debut album reflects a variety of key roles in her burgeoning career.

In June, 2000 Domashenko made her American debut at the San Francisco Opera --singing Dalila at a gala concert with Placido Domingo. She returns to the San Francisco Opera in June/July, 2002 as Carmen, and also sings Carmen in Oct/Nov. 2002 with the Philadelphia Opera.

In November/December, 2000, she sang Orlovsky in Die Fledermaus and Pauline in The Queen of Spades at the Opera Bastille in Paris. She also sings Pauline at the Teatro Communale in Bologna, Italy in January/February of 2002. During the 1999/2000 season she sang in Puccini's Suor Angelica at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam with Ricardo Chailly, Olga in Eugene Onegin at Moscow's New Opera with conductor Evgeny Kolobov, and Alexander Nevsky in Athens and in Venice at the Teatro la Fenice with conductor Yuri Temirkanov. She appears in Nabucco at the Vienna Staatsoper in May, June and September, 2001, and in the same production at Berlin's Deutsche Oper in November/December, 2001.

Concert appearances include New York's Lincoln Center and London's Barbican Theatre in April, 2001, both with Sir Colin Davis and the London Symphony Orchestra in Janacek's Mass ____________. In July, 2000 she was featured in Rossini's Stabat Mater at France's prestigious Montpelier Festival. She returns to the Montpelier Festival in July, 2001 singing Russian romances with Constantine Orbelian and the Moscow Chamber Orchestra. Also in July 2001 she appears with Placido Domingo in a gala concert in Moscow's Cathedral Square of the Kremlin.

Marina Domashenko was born in Kemerovo, Siberia, and spent her childhood and early teens as a pianist. Her triplet sisters, two and a half years younger, are also musicians -- violinist, cellist and pianist.

She graduated from the Kemerovo Arts Institute as a pianist and orchestral conductor, a body of experience that helped to develop her individual approach to the music she sings. In the course of her study at the Institute she had also begun to take singing seriously. Continuing her vocal studies at the Ekaterinburg Conservatoire under the distinguished Russian National Artist Svetlana Zaliznyak, she graduated in voice in 1998.

First prize winner in the Antonin Dvorak International Vocal Competition in 1997, Marina Domashenko made her European debut in 1998 with the Prague State Theatre, singing Olga in Eugene Onegin. She went on to sing Pauline in The Queen of Spades, Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte, and Carmen at the Prague National Theatre. She sang Carmen in the Prague National Theater's tour of Japan in 1999. Also in 1999 she won first prize in Italy's Concorso Internazionale per Giovani Cantanini D'Opera "Gianfranco Masini."

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