Tatiana Monogarova

Tatiana Monogarova was born in Moscow and studied voice at the Russian Academy of Arts. She began her career at the Helicon Opera and then the Stanislavsky Theatre as a principal soprano. She made her first appearances abroad in Sergei Slonimsky’s opera ‘The Master and Margarita’ with the Forum Theatre, Moscow under Michael Jurowski on tour in Germany, and then as Xenia in ‘Boris Godunov’ at La Fenice, Venice in 1995.

International engagements have included Glyndebourne Festival Opera (Donna Anna, Desdemona), Welsh National Opera (Mariya, Mazeppa), Wexford Festival (Julie, The Jacobin; Dorota, Schwanda the Bagpiper), Vienna (Tatiana; Countess; Le nozze di Figaro), Opéra de Nantes (Pamina; Lisa, Pique Dame), Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, Graz Opera, Teatro Comunale, Bologna, Modena and Ferrara (Lisa), Riga (Desdemona, Otello; Pamina, Die Zauberflöte; Tatiana, Eugene Onegin; Mimi, La Boheme; Tamara, The Demon), Seville (title role, Cunning Little Vixen), Bern (Donna Anna, Don Giovanni; Cleopatra, Giulio Cesare), La Monnaie, Brussels (Lisa). In 2005/6 she made her debut at La Scala singing Tatiana in Evgeny Onegin and in 2007/8 at the Teatro Lirico Cagliari (Fevronia, The Invisible City of Kitezh) and sang Tatiana in Eugene Onegin with the Bayerische Staatsoper in the Munich Opera Festival. In September 2008 she sang Tatiana at the opening of the Bolshoi Theatre’s season at the Opera Bastille in Paris (also recorded for release on DVD by Bel Air Media).

In the concert hall she has sung at Wexford (Dvorak’s Stabat Mater), Kultur Ruhr, Essen (Stravinsky’s Les Noces, also recorded for NRW), Hong Kong Arts Festival (Rachmaninov’s The Bells), with the Iceland Symphony and London Philharmonic Orchestras (Shostakovich’s 14th Symphony), and also her US debut with the Russian National Orchestra singing scenes from Tchaikovsky’s incidental music to Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet in Avery Fisher Hall, New York followed by a celebrity concert designed for her with the Monterey Symphony Orchestra, California. She has also sung in Dvorak’s Requiem with the Gulbenkian Orchestra, Lisbon under Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, and a concert performance of Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta with the London Phiharmonic at the BBC Proms under Vladimir Jurowski as well as the incidental music to Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet in the Festival Hall, London again with Jurowski, this time conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Forthcoming engagements include the world premiére of Martynov’s Vita Nuova at London’s Festival Hall with a repeat performance at the Lincoln Centre, New York, Tatiana, Fevronia and Desdemona at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow and Lisa in Pique Dame for Houston Grand Opera.