In 1992 Olga Borodina made her highly acclaimed European debut in London at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, sharing the stage with Placido Domingo in Samson and Delilah. These performances launched her international career. Covent Garden invited her back in La Cenerentola and as Marguérite in La damnation de Faust with Sir Colin Davis. Miss Borodina returned to Covent Garden as Marina in Boris Godunov in the autumn of 2003 and as Khovanchina in the Summer of 2005. In 1997 Miss Borodina made her Salzburg Festival début in Boris Godunov and returned in 1999, 2001 & 2003 for Eboli in Don Carlos. At La Scala Milan Miss Borodina sang the Principessa in Adriana Lecouvreur in 1999 and returned as Delilah together with Domingo in 2002. At the Paris Opera Miss Borodina has sung Carmen and Eboli and in Boris Godunov.
Olga Borodina made her American début in 1995 in San Francisco in La Cenerentola, returning there for her first Carmen in 1996, The Tzar's Bride in 2000 , Samson & Delilah in 2001, Italiana in Algerie in September 2005 and Delilah in 2006. Miss Borodina made her long awaited Metropolitan Opera début in Boris Godunov in 1997 and returned to the Metropolitan Opera for the opening night of the 1998/99 season in Samson and Delilah with Placido Domingo and James Levine. Subsequent engagements at the Metropolitan Opera have included Amneris in Aida, Carmen, Delilah in Samson and Delilah, Isabella in Italiana in Algerie. Miss Borodina sang her first Giocconda at the Met in 06/07, followed by long awaited performances of Eboli in Don Carlo. In 07/08 she performed Amneris in Aida and Carmen at the Met and Delilah in San Francisco. The 08/09 season saw her return to the Met as Gioconda and the Principessa in Adriana Lecouvreur together with Placido Domingo and this season as Margerite in Robert Lepage's production of Damnation de Faust and a revival of a new production of Carmen.
Her concert appearances with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra under James Levine at Carnegie Hall have included the Verdi Requiem, Sheherezade and La mort de Cleopatre. Other concert engagements have included Songs and Dances of Death, Romeo and Juliette, Rossini's Stabat Mater, Pulcinella, Ivan the Terrible and Alexander Nevsky, appearing with the world's greatest orchestras and conductors. Songs and Dances of Death at the Proms with Gergiev and the Rotterdam Philharmonic, at the Bastille with Conlon, with the Concertgebouw Orchestra and Rostropovich in Amsterdam and the Royal Festival Hall London. Miss Borodina also performed La Mort de Cleopatre and with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and James Levine at Carnegie Hall and recorded the work from life concerts at the Musikverein in Vienna with the Vienna Philharmonic and Gergiev for Decca.
Highlights in 2006/07 were performances of the Verdi Requiem with Maestro Muti in London, Ravenna and Rome and Songs and Dances of Death with the Orchestre National de France. Miss Borodina also performed and recorded the Verdi Requiem in Cologne with the Westdeutsche Rundfunk Orchestra and Maestro Bychkov. Highlights of the 08/09 were concerts with Maestro Muti and the Bayerische Rundfunk of Romeo and Juliett, the Verdi Reuqiem with Muti and the Chicago Symphony and the Orchestre National de France and Pappano at Covent Garden and Birmingham and a recording of Damnation de Faust with the RSO Vienna and Bertrand de Billy.
Highlights of the 09/10 season, apart from Marguerite and Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera, is a recital at Carnegie Hall, concert performances in Paris, Prague and Finland as well as the Salzburg Festival with Maestro Muti.
In recital, Olga Borodina has appeared amongst many other venues in London (Wigmore Hall and Barbican Centre), Milan (La Scala), Vienna (Konzerthaus), San Francisco (Davies Hall), Rome (Accademia di Santa Cecilia), Geneva (Grand Théatre), Hamburg (Staatsoper), Paris (Théatre des Champs Elysées), Barcelona (Liceu), Madrid (National Concert Hall) and at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. 2001 Miss Borodina made her Carnegie Hall Recital début with James Levine as accompanist and returned in recital in May 2004 as well as for a duet recital with her husband the bass Ildar Abdrazakov in April 2006. She returned in recital to La Scala, Madrid and Lisbon in 08/09.
Olga Borodina's releases on the Philips Classics label include: Khovanchina, Pique Dame, War and Peace, Prince Igor, Boris Godunov, Eugene Onegin, La Forza del Destino, Don Carlos, Rachmaninov's Vespers, Stranvinsky's Pulcinella and Berlioz's Romeo et Juliette, working with Valeri Gergiev, Bernard Haitink and Sir Colin Davis. On the Erato label she recorded Samson et Dalilah opposite Jose Cura with Sir Colin Davis. Her solo recital recordings, all under the Philips Classics label, are Tchaikovsky, Songs of Desire, Bolero and an album of Opera Arias with the Welsh National Opera Orchestra and Carlo Rizzi. Other releases have included Verdi's Requiem with Gergiev and Aida with Harnoncourt and the Vienna Pilharmonic and Berlioz's La Mort de Cleopatre from life concerts at the Musikverein in Vienna with the Vienna Philharmonic and Gergiev for Decca. Philips Classics recently released a double album "A Portrait of Olga Borodina" with a collection of songs and arias.
Olga Borodina was awarded People's Artist of Russia in 2002, and is the recipient of the State Prize of Russia 2007, the highest allocate in Russia.
November 2009
