Eleonora Vindau

Ukrainian soprano opera singer (born 1986)
Eleonora Vindau
Елеонора Віндау
Born (1986-08-19) 19 August 1986 (age 38)
Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR
OccupationOpera singer (soprano)
SpouseAndrei Bondarenko

Eleonora Vindau (Ukrainian: Eлеонора Віндау; born 19 August 1986) is a Ukrainian soprano opera singer. She sang the role of Dunyasha in the world premiere of Alexander Smelkov's opera The Station Master, staged at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre in 2011 and is a laureate of IV All-Russian Nadezhda Obukhova Young Opera Singers' Competition (Lipetsk, 2008) and the VIII International Rimsky-Korsakov Young Opera Singers' Competition (St Petersburg, 2008)[1]

Life and career

Vindau was born in Kyiv and graduated from the Tchaikovsky National Academy of Music of Ukraine in 2009. Since 2007, she has been a soloist with the Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers and has toured with the Mariinsky Opera where her repertoire includes:

  • Xenia in Boris Godunov
  • Brigitta in Iolanta
  • Dunyasha in The Station Master
  • Zerlina in Don Giovanni
  • Countess Almaviva and Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro
  • Despina in Così fan tutte
  • Papagena Die Zauberflöte
  • Pedro in Don Quichotte
  • Echo in Ariadne auf Naxos
  • Soprano soloist in Handel's Messiah

Internationally, she has sung Birgitta in Iolanta at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona (2013) and the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse (2010).[2][3] In 2011 she sang Lauretta in Betrothal in a Monastery at the Opéra-Comique in Paris and the Théâtre du Capitole.

Vindau was married to the Ukrainian baritone Andrei Bondarenko.[4]

References

  1. ^ Mariinsky Theatre. Eleonora Vindau
  2. ^ Théâtre du Capitole. Communiqué: Saison 2009/10 Hors les murs du Théâtre du Capitole, transition, éclectisme, ouverture
  3. ^ Sans Rivière, Fernando (14 January 2013. "Elegante y exquisita Netrebko". La Razón
  4. ^ BBC News (17 June 2011). "Cardiff Singer of the World finalists battle for crown".
  • Profile at Askonas Holt Artist Management. Archived 2014-02-03 at the Wayback Machine
  • A debut in the opera Le nozze di Figaro.
  • A debut in the opera Don Quixote on the stage of the Bolshoi theatre.
  • St. Petersburg: Weiße Nächte am Mariinsky Theater — Nozze di Figaro / Götterdämmerung.
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