Olesya Petrova graduated from the Rimsky-Korsakov St Petersburg State Conservatory. Since 2016 she has been a soloist at the Mikhailovsky Theatre, where she performs the roles of Ulrica in Un ballo in maschera, Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana and the Countess in The Queen of Spades among others. In 2014 she made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in a production of Andrea Chénier (Madelon). In 2018 she made her debut at the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia, performing the role of Polina in a production premiere of The Queen of Spades (conducted by Tugan Sokhiev and directed by Rimas Tuminas). Her concert repertoire includes the mezzo-soprano roles in cantatas by Bach, Handel’s oratorio Messiah, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Mozart’s Requiem and Krönungsmesse, Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Verdi’s Requiem, Mahler’s Second, Third and Eighth Symphonies and Das Lied von der Erde and Kindertotenlieder, Prokofiev’s cantata Alexander Nevsky and Penderecki’s Morning Prayer in addition to song cycles by Wagner, Berlioz, Mahler, Mussorgsky and Schnittke.

Alexei Goribol performs ol concerts throughout Russia and Europe, records for radio and on CD, presents music programmes on Russia’s Channel 5 (including thirty episodes of the programme Night. Sound. Goribol) and takes part in Russian and international music festivals. He is well known as a proponent of the music of Leonid Desyatnikov and has been the first performer of many of the composer’s works. He has been Music Director of several acclaimed Russian films in recent years.From 2004 to 2007 he directed the Arts Festival in Kostomuksha (Karelia). Since 2008 he has been an organiser and manager of the Levitan Festival in Plyos. Artistic Director of the Russo-Finnish music and poetry festival Towards Vyborg. Artistic Director of the Britten Evenings at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow (2013).