Soprano (Russia)

Olga Kondina is professor of the St.Petersburg State Conservatory and since 1985 one of the leading soloists of The Mariinsky Theatre (Kirov Opera). She studied violin an solo singing at the Ural State Conservatory and completed her violin concert diploma in 1980 and singing diploma 1982. In 1983-1985 she took a post-graduate course of solo-singing with Prof. Irina Arkhipova at the Moscow State  Conservatory.—Olga Kondina is a laureate of Glinka Singers Competition in Russia (1979,19829, a prize-winner of the International Viotti Competition in Italy (1984), a laureate and special prize-holder of the International Viñas Singing Competition in Barcelona, Spain (1987).

Since 1985 Olga Kondina is one of the leading singers of the Mariinsky Theatre (KirovOpera) in St.Petersburg. In her repertoire Violetta (La Traviata) and Gilda (Rigoletto) by Verdi; Lucia (lucia di Lammermoor) by Donizetti; Luydmila (Ruslan andLludmila)by Glinka; Rosina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) by Rossini; Nightingale (Nightingale) by Stravinsky. Together with the Kirov Opera she sang in the theatres in Europe, Japan and the USA.
Her wide chamber vocal repertoire embraces the music of French, German
and Italian composers of different epochs. Her solo CD: ¨Russian classical romances¨was released in 1993; Ave Maria was released i 1994; Reflections was released in 1996.