The soprano Olga Shurshina entered in 1996 the vocal department of
the St. Petersburg N. A.Rimsky-Korsakov and completed her education
there with honours. She became a soloist at the Academy for young opera
singers of the Mariinsky Theater and worked at this time Concerts, cantatas
and oratorios as well as opera productions. Numerous Master classes
round off her vocal and musical training. From 2006 she was the first
soloist of the children's and Jugendtheaters Zazerkalie in
St Petersburg. Since 2010 she has been a soloist with the St. Petersburg
Philharmonic. In 2018 Olga Shurshina took up an engagement at the
Landestheater
Coburg, where she performed as Ellen Orford (Peter Grimes),
Micaëla (Carmen), Erste Dame (Die Zauberflöte),
Freia
(Das Reingold) and Katerina (Die Griechische Passion)
could be experienced. In 2018 she also made a guest appearance as the
Gräfin in Figaros Hochzeit at the Schwetzinger Festspielen. Since 2020
she is guest solist at the Saarländisches Staatstheater, where she sings
Leonora (Il Trovatore).
Regular trips with solo programs, gala concerts and oratorios take
the soprano to Russia, Italy, Finland, Germany, Belarus, Serbia, Türkiye
and other countries.
Work Experience
2022 - Theater Chemniz, Aida
2020 - Saarländisches Theater, Leonora
2018 - Schwetzinger Mozart Festival, Contessa
2018-2020 - fest solist
contract of Landestheater Coburg, Ellen Oxford, Micaela, Erste Dame,
Freia, Katherina
Since 2010 - solist of Saint Petersburg Philharmonic
Hall
Sinc 2006 - leading solist of St.-Petersburg State Musical theatre
200--006 - solist of the Mariinsky theatre
Olga Shurshina worked with well-known conductors such as Sébastien
Rouland, Leo Kremer, Kai Buman, Roland Kluttig, Johannes Braun, Fabio
Mastrangelo, Bruno Campanella, Pertti Pekkanen, Mathias Breitschaft,
Muhai Tang, Angelo Gabrielli, Mirca Rosciani, Valery Gergiev, Pavel
Bubelnikov, Anatoly Rybalko and Dmitri Hohlov
Olga Shurshina has received numerous prizes and awards at competitions
and for her performances on the opera stage. Among other things, she
won the 1st prize, the special prize and the audience prize at the International
Rimsky-Korsakov Competition at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg
in 2004, and won the Mirjam Helin Singing Competition in Helsinki in
the same year. In 2007 she received an award from the Moscow festival
The Universe of Sound for her interpretation of Anna Bolena
(Donizetti). In 2016 she won the Nikolai Medtner Competition in St.
Petersburg.
