Valeria Pfister graduated from the Shnitke State University of Music in Moscow (Prof. Shadrina's class) in 2010. She worked with the Moscow State Chapel under Vadim Sudakov in 2002. She collaborated with the Pokrovsky State Academic Chamber Music Theatre of Moscow. Valeria Pfister joined the Novaya Opera in 2003 as a member of the chorus; in 2007 she became a soloist. The singer performs mezzo-soprano parts and participates in concert programmes.
Awards and Honours:
- Moscow City Literature and Arts Prize in the Musical Art Nomination for the part of Liese in Weinberg's The Passenger (2018)
- Prize-winner at the Bella Voce International Competition of Young Vocalists (1st prize, 2006)
Roles performed at the Novaya Opera:
Carmen in Bizet's Carmen
Brigitta in Korngold's Die tote Stadt
Ortrud in Wagner's Lohengrin
Konchakovna in Borodin's Prince Igor
Lel in Rimsky-Korsakov's The Snow Maiden
Lyubasha in Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride
Naina, Ratmir in Glinka's Ruslan and Lyudmila
Uknown Woman (Letter from an Uknown Woman) in Voice of a Woman (opera novellas)
Olga in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin
Pauline, Governess in Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades
Adalgisa in Bellini's Norma
Lola in Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana
Page in Wagner's Lohengrin
Cherubino in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro
Female Cat, Squirrel in Ravel's L’enfant et les sortilèges
Madam, Sorceress in Michael Nyman and Henry Purcell's DIDO
Maddalena in Prokofiev's Maddalena
Miss Jessel in Britten's The Turn of the Screw
Pig in Valdgardt's The Cat's House
The Page of Herodias in Strauss' Salome
Stéphano in Gounod's Romeo et Juliette
Liese in Weinberg's The Passenger
Siébel in Gounod's Faust
Gertrud in Engelbert Humperdinck's The Gingerbread House, or Hänsel und Gretel
Brangäne in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde
Azucena in Verdi's Il trovatore
Perfiryevna in Rimsky-Korsakov's The Maid of Pskov (in concert)
Stéphano in Gounod's Romeo et Juliette (in concert)
Page in Strauss' Salome (in concert)
Parts in the productions:
Maria Callas (musical offering)
Ten Sopranos (gala concert)
Tribute to Evgeny Kolobov (concert)
Romances by Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Sergey Rachmaninov (concert)
Bravissimo! (opera mix)
Rossini (musical divertissement)
O Mozart! Mozart… (Requiem)
Johann Strauss, the Waltz King (gala concert)
Mozart's Requiem
Bach's St. Matthew Passion
Bach's Messe in h-moll
Hindemith's Die junge Magd
Discography:
Bravissimo! (DVD)
