After years of resounding success as Susanna, Ekaterina Bakanova makes her role debut as the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste, in a new production by Pier Luigi Pizzi conducted by Enrico Calesso. She joins a distinguished cast that includes Simone Alberghini as Figaro, Carolina Lippo as Susanna, Giorgio Caoduro as Count Almaviva, Paola Gardina as Cherubino, Andrea Concetti as Don Bartolo, Andrea Galli as Don Basilio, Anna Maria Chiuri as Marcellina, Veronica Prando as Barbarina, and William Corrò as Antonio. The premiere takes place on November 29, followed by additional performances on December 4, 6, 10, 12, and 14.

The Russian-born soprano was recently acclaimed for her Donna Anna in the new Don Giovanni production that opened the 2024/25 season at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, with La Razón praising her “vibrant portrayal” and Ópera Actual highlighting a performance “of consistently high level, both vocally and dramatically.”

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About Ekaterina Bakanova:

Opera and oratorio singer, in her origins she combines the Russian roots of the Ural mountains, Mednogorsk, and the plain of Ukraine, Melitopol, which is twinned with Melito of Naples in Italy. She studied singing, piano and accordion. She developed her own artistic activity in Europe and, in particular, in Italy, becoming Italian by adoption. Her love for Italy led her to live in this nation where the artist carries out the promotional activity of opera music and culture in general. She is the winner of numerous important international and national competitions, awards and recognitions.

She is a regular guest of the major opera houses and collaborate with the most prestigious conductors.Ekaterina Bakanova has establish a successful collaboration with a National Symphony Orchestra of the RAI and has performed a several times with Maestro Fabio Luisi, Steven Mercurio and Jurai Valcuha, with the Ensemble Matheus, under the direction of Jean-Christophe Spinosi, with Plácido Domingo, and Mung Whung Chung , Dan Ettinger, Daniele Rustioni, Nello Santi, Daniele Callegari;

She has appeared in the productions of famous staging directors such as Mario Martone, Franco Zeffirelli, Achim Freyer, Calixto Bieito, Robert Carsen, Henning Brockhaus, Richard Eyre, Hugo de Ana, Renoud Doucet, Andrea de Rosa;

After her debut at the Royal Opera House in London as Violetta Valery, Ekaterina Bakanova was praised by the press for her interpretative refinement and since then she has been called to the most prestigious stages, such as those of the Staatsoper of Dresden, the Arena of Verona, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Teatro Liceo in Barcelona, the Royal Opera in Versailles, the Israeli Opera in Tel-Aviv and the Opera in Zurich, the NCPA Performing Arts Center in Beijing and others.

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