Antonina Vesenina

Antonina Vesenina was born in Voronezh. She graduated from the Voronezh State Academy of Arts (class of Natalia Savitskaya). In 2010 she joined Saint Petersburg State Chamber Musical Theatre Saint Petersburg Opera where performed the roles of Gilda in Verdi’s Rigoletto, Lucia in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia. Since 2011, Ms. Vesenina has been a soloist with the Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers. In 2014 she made her debut in the Mariinsky as The Queen of the Night in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, and performed the role of Rosina in the premiere of Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia. Her debut as Queen of Shemakha in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Golden Cockerel took place in February 2015. Also in her repertoire: Gilda (Rigoletto), Mademuaselle Silberklang (Der Schauspieldirektor), Clorinda (L