Victoria Loukianetz

Victoria Loukianetz was born in the Ukrainian city of Kiev and started her musical education at the early age of 5 with piano lessons. She began to study voice at the age of 14 and later acquired a degree in vocal performance at the Kiev Conservatory of Music in 1989. She began her professional career at the Kiev National Opera right after graduation, making her début as Marfa in Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride. She made her début in the same role at the Bolshoi Theatre in 1993.

In 1990 she won first prizes at the Min-On International Singer Competition in Tokyo and at the International Mozart Competition in Vienna. In 1991 she was awarded first prize at the International Maria Callas Competition in Athens. Débuts in Italy, France, Portugal, Japan and Greece followed.

In 1993 she made her début at the Vienna State Opera as Queen of the Night in Mozart's The Magic Flute and became a permanent member of the company until 2000. At the Vienna State Opera she sung Gilda (Rigoletto), Violetta (La traviata), Oscar (un Ballo in Maschera), Adina (L'Elisir d'amore), Linda (Linda di Chamounix), Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor), Elvira (I Puritani), Rosina (The Barber of Seville), Ophèlie (Hamlet), Olympia (The Tales of Hoffmann), Musetta (La Bohème) and Berthe in a new production of Meyerbeer's Le Prophète with Placido Domingo and Agnes Baltsa.

Victoria Loukianetz is a regular guest at the main opera houses and international festivals, such as: Metropolitan Opera New York, Scala di Milano, Covent Garden London, Opéra Bastille Paris, Salzburg Festival, Bayerische Staatsoper München, Hamburgische Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Aaltotheater Essen, Grand Théâtre de Genève, New Israeli Opera, Trieste and Opéra Royal de Wallonie Liège.

Most successful were her last appearances in the Mozart Cantata under Maestro Harnoncourt in the Vienna Musikverein, as Rosaura in Wolf-Ferrari's La vedova scaltra in the Opera of Nice, as Bèrthe in Meyerbeer's Le Prophète and as Violetta in La traviata in Buenos Aires.

Further commitments include Elettra in Mozart's Idomeneo at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and Marie in Zimmermann's Die Soldaten at the New National Theatre Tokyo.

Victoria Loukianetz is documented on several CDs (Mozart's C minor Mass and Haydn’s Nelson Mass and Myslivecek's Abramo ed Isacco) and on DVD (L’ Elisir d'amore).