Olga Bezsmertna
Olga Bezsmertna (; born 6 August 1983) is a Ukrainian operatic soprano based at the Vienna State Opera. She was engaged there after winning the Neue Stimmen competition in 2011, and soon performed leading roles such as Dvořák's Rusalka and Rachel in Halévy's "La Juive". She appeared as Tatyana in Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin" at the Zürich Opera House, as Diana in Cavalli's "La Calisto" at La Scala in Milan, and as the Countess in Mozart's "Figaro" at the Bavarian State Opera. Career. Olga Bezsmertna was born in Bohuslav. She studied voice at the Kyiv  Conservatory, graduating in 2010. Already in 2007, she was engaged at the Oder-Spree Festival. Bezsmertna was successful at several international competitions between 2006 and 2011. When she won the first prize of the Neue Stimmen in 2011, Dominique Meyer, director of the Vienna State Opera led the jury, and engaged her for his house the following year. Her first role there was Lora in Wagner's "Die Feen" on 19 March 2012. Ten days later, she appeared as The Lady in Hindemith's "Cardillac". She further performed there as both Pamina and the First Lady in Mozart's "Die  Zauberflöte", Donna Elvira in "Don Giovanni", and The Countess in "Figaro". In 2014, she appeared in the title role of Dvořák's "Rusalka" and the following year Rachel in Halévy's "La Juive". At the Vienna Opera Ball 2015, Bezsmertna sang the aria "Dove sono" from "Figaro". In summer 2015, the singer made her debut as Marzelline in Beethoven's "Fidelio" at the Salzburg Festival, staged by Claus Guth and conducted by Franz Welser-Möst. Bezsmertna sang in Strauss's "Die Liebe der Danae" at the Salzburg Festival, and made her debut at Zürich Opera House as Tatyana in Tchaikovsky 's "Eugene Onegin" in the 2017/2018 season. In 2021, she made her role and house debut as Diana in Cavalli's "La Calisto" at La Scala. In 2022, she appeared as the Countess at the Bavarian State Opera. Bezsmertna has performed at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Staatstheater Wiesbaden and with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern. She works with conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Ádám Fischer, Alain Altinoglu, James Conlon and Christian Thielemann. Bezsmertna is married and mother of two children. Her husband studied theology.