Venera Gimadieva

Soprano

Venera Gimadieva graduated from Kazan Musical College. In 2009 she graduated from the St. Petersburg State Conservatoire (Svetlana Gorenkova’s class).
In 2008 she joined the St. Petersburg Opera theatre.

In October, 2009, Venera Gimadieva joined the Bolshoi Theatre Young Artists Program.
Since 2011, she has been soloist with the Bolshoi Theatre Opera Company.

Repertoire

At the Bolshoi:
Sirin (The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and of the Maiden Fevronia)
title role (The Snow Maiden)
The Tsaritsa of Shemakha (The Golden Cockerel)
Marfa (The Tsar’s Bride)
Xenia (Boris Godunov)

Also in repertoire:
title role (Lucia di Lammermoor)
Gilda (Rigoletto)
Lucia (The Rape of Lucretia)
Genovieffa (Suor Angelica)
Serafina (Il campanello di notte)

Tours

Venera Gimadieva is a guest soloist of Kazan State Theatre of Opera and Ballet.
In February, 2010, she sang Serpina in concert performance of Pergolesi’s La serva padrona with Moscow Chamber Orchestra Musica Viva, conductor Alexander Rudin. She toured with the Bolshoi Theatre Young Artists Program singers in Baku and Washington, and she performed at the Moscow Conservatoire Big Hall with Moscow Philharmonic Academic Orchestra, conductor Yuri Simonov.