Mezzo-soprano
Svetlana Tokareva
Prize winner of a national competition
Graduated from the Novosibirsk State Conservatoire named after M. I. Glinka (2007) and completed post graduate studies there (2009, class of Honored Artist of Russia, assistant professor T. Gorbunova).
Svetlana joined the opera company of the Novosibirsk opera and ballet theatre in 2005. Her repertoire includes the following parts: Sonyetka (Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District); Lyubasha, Dunyasha (Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride); Krystina (Weinberg’s The Passenger); Dorabella (Mozart’s Così fan tutte); Maddalena (Verdi’s Rigoletto); Varvara, Glaša (Janáček’s Káťa Kabanová); Marthe (Gounod’s Faust); Neighbour (Stravinsky’s Mavra); Olga (Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin); Laura (Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta); Emilia (Verdi’s Othello); Rosina (Rossini’s The Barber of Seville); Suzuki, Kate (Puccini’s Madama Butterfly); (The Tale of the Priest and of his Workman Balda by Kravchenko); Piggy bank (Steadfast Tin Soldier by Banevich); Mezzo soprano part (Sacred Winter of 1949 by Desyatnikov); Soloist (Rossini’s Stabat Mater).
- Carmen, Mercedes. Carmen by Bizet
- Konchakovna. Prince Igor by Borodin
- Polina. Countess. The Queen of Spades. The Game by Tchaikovsky
- Amneris. Aida by Verdi
- The Snow Queen. Little robber girl. The story of Kai and Gerda by Banevich
- Flora. La traviata by Verdi
- Fedor. Boris Godunov by Mussorgsky
- Goddess Nike. Khachaturian's Spartacus (production by Kovtun)
- Ulrika. Un Ballo In Maschera by Verdi
- Frog. Terem-teremok by I. Polsky
- Prince Orlofsky. Die Fledermaus by Strauss
- Piggy bank. The Steadfast Tin Soldier by Banevich
- Grandmother. Cui's Little Red Riding Hood
- Filippyevna. Eugene Onegin by Tchaikovsky
- Mistress Quickly. Falstaff by Verdi
- Marta. Iolanta by Tchaikovsky
- Court lady. Dido and Aeneas by Purcell
- Ksenia's mother. Boris Godunov by Mussorgsky
- Bobylikha. Snow Maiden by Rimsky-Korsakov
- Kashcheevna. Kashchey the Deathless by Rimsky-Korsakov
- Third lady. The Magic Flute by Mozart
- II Prize at National Russian Romance competition (Yoshkar-Ola, 2005)