• Prize-winner at the IV International Rimsky-Korsakov
Competition (2000)
• Diploma-recipient at the Barcelona
International Vocalists' Competition (2000)
• Recipient of
the Golden Sofit, St Petersburg's most prestigious theatre
prize (1998)
Natalia Yevstafieva graduated from the St Petersburg State
Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire in 1999. From 1997-2000 she was
a soloist with the St Petersburg Musorgsky Academic Theatre of Opera
and Ballet where she performed as Marina Mnishek (Boris Godunov),
Konchakovna (Prince Igor), Olga (Eugene Onegin), Polina
(The Queen of Spades), Flora (La traviata), Carmen
(Carmen) and Prince Orlovsky (Die Fledermaus).
Soloist with
the Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers from 2001, making her Mariinsky
Theatre debut the same year as Marfa (Khovanshchina). Natalia
Yevstafieva has been a Mariinsky Theatre soloist since 2008.
Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre
includes:
Marina Mnishek (Boris Godunov)
Marfa
(Khovanshchina)
Konchakovna (Prince Igor)
Olga
(Eugene Onegin)
Polina (The Queen of Spades)
Lel
(The Snow Maiden)
Lyubava (Sadko)
Weaver, Cook (The
Tale of Tsar Saltan)
Kashcheyevna (Kashchei the Immortal
in concert)
Boy (The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and
the Maiden Fevronia)
Angel (The Demon)
Nicoletta,
Clarice (Love for Three Oranges)
Hélene Bezukhova (War and
Peace)
Sonyetka (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk)
Agrafena
Alexandrovna (The Brothers Karamazov)
Fenena
(Nabucco)
Maddalena (Rigoletto)
Flora Bervoix (La
traviata)
Lola (Cavalleria rusticana)
Suzuki (Madama
Butterfly)
Suor Dolcina (Suor Angelica)
Concepciуn
(L'Heure espagnol)
Didon (Les Troyens)
Carmen
(Carmen)
Idamante (Idomeneo, re di Creta)
Second Lady
(Die Zauberflöte)
Waltraut (Die Walküre)
Judith
(Bluebeard's Castle)
The singer's concert repertoire includes the mezzo-soprano roles in
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Verdi's Requiem and arias and romances by Russian,
German, Italian and French composers.
Natalia Yevstafieva has toured with
the Mariinsky Opera Company to Germany, France and the USA. She has
performed as Olga (Eugene Onegin) at Paris' Théâtre du Châtelet and as
Carmen (Carmen) at the Coliseu de Lisboa (Portugal).