OlgaPudova
Contact
Paul Meyer zu Schwabedissen
Mark Hildrew
Rowan Bidmead
Representation
Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt
About Olga
Recent and upcoming engagements have included Olympia The Tales of Hoffmann at The Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Königin der Nacht (Die Zauberflöte) at Opera national de Paris and Bayerische Staatsoper, Konstanze Die Entführung aus dem Serail at Grand Theatre de la Ville de Luxembourg and Zerbinetta Ariadne auf Naxos at Bayerische Staatsoper.
Previously highlights include Königin der Nacht (Die Zauberflöte) at the Dallas Opera and Semperoper Dresden, her role debut as Konstanze in and new production of Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, More recently, roles included Olympia (Les contes d’Hoffman) at the Gran Teatre de Liceu, Zerbinetta (Ariadne auf Naxos) at the Grand Theatre de la Ville de Luxembourg and Giunia (Lucio Silla) with La Seine Musicale and her role debut as Violetta in La traviata at the Bolshoi Theatre Moscow.
Career highlights include new production of Ariadne auf Naxos at The Théâtre des Champs-Élysées; Lucia di Lammermoor and Olympia at Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich; and various other roles at Opéra national de Paris; Wiener Staatsoper; Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona; Opernhaus Zürich; Festspielhaus Baden-Baden; Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris; Semperoper, Dresden; Teatro dell’Opera di Roma; Opéra-Comique, Paris; Opera Philadelphia; Teatro Regio di Torino; Teatro la Fenice, Venice; Opera di Firenze; Komische Oper Berlin; Theater an der Wien, Vienna; Les Chorégies d’Orange, Latvian National Opera, Riga; Angers Nantes Opéra; Opera de Nice; Opera de Bordeaux; Opernhaus Mannheim; Festival d’Aix-en-Provence; Vlaamse Opera in Ghent and Antwerp; Edinburgh International Festival and Budapest Spring Festivals, as well as of course the Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg, where she sings in the ensemble.
Representation
Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt
Video
Olga Pudova sings an excerpt of "les oiseaux dans la charmille" from The Tales of Hoffmann
Credit: Royal Opera House
PlayingOlga Pudova performs "Großmächtige Prinzessin" from Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos
Credit: Mariinsky Theatre
PlayingOlga Pudova performs "Quia la voce ... Vien, diletto" from i Puritani
Credit: Mariinsky Theatre
PlayingOlga Pudova sings Lucia Silla "Dalla sponda tenebrosa"
Olga sings Giunia Credit: Warner Classics
PlayingOlga Pudova sings Lucio Silla "Ah se il crudel periglio"
Olga sings Giunia Credit: Warner Classics
PlayingOlga Pudova sings Lucia di Lammermoor "il dolce suono"
Olga sings the Mad Scene from Lucia di Lammermoor Credit: artist
PlayingOlga Pudova sings Snow Maiden
Olga Pudova sings the melting scene of Snow Maiden Credit: artist
PlayingOlga Pudova sings Rigoletto "Caro nome"
Credit: artist
Playing
Selected Repertoire
Bellini | La Sonnambula (Amina) |
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Bernstein | Candide (Cunegonde) |
Bizet | Les pêcheurs de perles (Leïla) |
Britten | A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Tytania) |
Donizetti | Lucia di Lammermoor (title role) • L’elisir d’amore (Adina) • La fille du regiment (Marie) • Don Pasquale (Norina) |
Massenet | Cendrillion (La Fee) |
Mozart | Die Zauberflöte (Königin der Nacht) • Entführung aus dem Serail (Konstanze) • Der Schauspieldirektor (Madame Herz) • Lucio Silla (Giunia) • La finta giardiniera (Sandrina) |
Offenbach | Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Olympia) |
Puccini | La Boheme (Musetta) |
Rimsky-Korsakov | The Snow Maiden (title role) • The Golden Cockerel (Tsaritsa of Shemakha) • The Tale of Tsar Saltan (Tsarevna Swan-Bird) |
Rossini | Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Rosina) • Il Viaggio a Reims (Contessa di Foleville) |
Strauss | Ariadne auf Naxos (Zerbinetta) • Arabella (Fiakermilli) |
Stravinsky | Rossignol (title role) |
Verdi | Rigoletto (Gilda) • Un Ballo in Maschera (Oscar) • Falstaff (Nanetta) • La Traviata (Violetta) |
News
Press
Offenbach - The Tales of Hoffmann
Royal Opera HouseNov 2024As the mechanical doll Olympia, Olga Pudova dazzles with pinpoint coloratura, throwing in what could be the highest notes ever heard in the Royal Opera House.
- Richard Fairman, The Financial Times
- 08 November 2024
But the real show-stopper is Russian soprano Olga Pudova, playing the mechanical doll. Her high coloratura is icy and faultless, while her movements are so convincing than it’s hard to believe she’s human at all – a stunning turn.
- Michael Church, iNews
- 08 November 2024
All three sopranos were thoroughly enjoyable. Olga Pudova earned the biggest ovation of the night for the boundless energy she put into Olympia’s “Les oiseaux dans la charmille”.
- David Karlin, BachTrack
- 08 November 2024
The first of Hoffmann's three flashback desires is to Russian coloratura soprano Olga Pudova's Olympia, her seemingly limitless vocal aeronautics as nimble as her droll and doll-like movements are comically awkward.
- Claudia Pritchard, Culture Whisper
- 10 November 2024
the Russian soprano Olga Pudova showed magnificent coloratura as Olympia
- Mark Ronan, The Article
- 09 November 2024
He has three dazzling ladies at different stages of Hoffmann’s obsessive and unfulfilled life: back at school with the mobile equations on the blackboard, Olga Pudova plays Olympia as a neat Lucy Worsley lookalike who turns out to be a mechanical doll, and brings the house down with her mechanically stratospheric coloratura aria.
- Nicholas Kenyon, MSN
- 08 November 2024
Olga Pudova delivers quite the turn as Olympia, marching about stiff in arm and leg (think “Doll on a Music Box” from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), and wowing the audience with a bravura coloratura run of notes that all but stopped the show.
- Gary Naylor, Broadway World
- 08 November 2024
In one impressive house debut, Olga Pudova poker-faced her way through Olympia’s mechanical show-piece, her soprano bell-like throughout the coloratura stratosphere.
- Flora Wilson, The Guardian
- 08 November 2024