Olga Peretyatko is one of the world’s most sought-after sopranos. She achieved her international breakthrough in 2007 when she won second prize at Plácido Domingo’s Operalia Competition. Since then, she has appeared at leading opera houses including the Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, La Scala, the Vienna State Opera, the Berlin State Opera, Teatro Real Madrid, the Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, and the Opéra Bastille Paris, as well as at renowned festivals in Salzburg, Baden-Baden, Aix-en-Provence, and Pesaro. In 2025, she was awarded the European Culture Prize in recognition of her outstanding artistic achievements.
The 2026/27 season sees Olga Peretyatko return to La Scala as Leïla in Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de perles. At the Deutsche Oper Berlin, she appears as Donna Anna in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, and she sings Violetta in Verdi’s La traviata at the Korea National Opera in Seoul. At the Philharmonie de Paris, she performs Leonora in a concert presentation of Verdi’s Il trovatore with Le Cercle de l’Harmonie under Jérémie Rhorer. On the concert stage, she joins the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Kazuki Yamada for Britten’s War Requiem at Coventry Cathedral, Bozar in Brussels, the Philharmonie Luxembourg and KKL Lucerne. Further highlights include Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Neue Philharmonie Westfalen under Andreas Klippert at the Philharmonie Essen, a return to Bucharest for Rachmaninoff’s The Bells, and a solo recital at Zurich Opera House.
Olga Peretyatko is one of the world’s most sought-after sopranos. She achieved her international breakthrough in 2007 when she won second prize at Plácido Domingo’s Operalia Competition. Since then, she has appeared at leading opera houses including the Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, La Scala, the Vienna State Opera, the Berlin State Opera, Teatro Real Madrid, the Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, and the Opéra Bastille Paris, as well as at renowned festivals in Salzburg, Baden-Baden, Aix-en-Provence, and Pesaro. In 2025, she was awarded the European Culture Prize in recognition of her outstanding artistic achievements.
The 2026/27 season sees Olga Peretyatko return to La Scala as Leïla in Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de perles. At the Deutsche Oper Berlin, she appears as Donna Anna in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, and she sings Violetta in Verdi’s La traviata at the Korea National Opera in Seoul. At the Philharmonie de Paris, she performs Leonora in a concert presentation of Verdi’s Il trovatore with Le Cercle de l’Harmonie under Jérémie Rhorer. On the concert stage, she joins the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Kazuki Yamada for Britten’s War Requiem at Coventry Cathedral, Bozar in Brussels, the Philharmonie Luxembourg and KKL Lucerne. Further highlights include Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Neue Philharmonie Westfalen under Andreas Klippert at the Philharmonie Essen, a return to Bucharest for Rachmaninoff’s The Bells, and a solo recital at Zurich Opera House.
With her distinctive voice and radiant stage presence, Olga Peretyatko masters a versatile repertoire ranging from humorous coloratura roles to intense dramatic parts. Recent role debuts include Giulia in Rossini’s La scala di seta, Norma at the Hamburg State Opera, Mathilde in Rossini’s Guillaume Tell in Tokyo, Elettra in Mozart’s Idomeneo at the Berlin State Opera, and Margherita in Gounod’s Faust in Hamburg. Other signature roles include Violetta (La traviata), Gilda (Rigoletto), Fiorilla (Il turco in Italia), Leonora (Il trovatore), Countess Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Norina (Don Pasquale), and the title role in Anna Bolena. She has also performed Maria in Tchaikovsky’s Mazeppa in Dmitri Tcherniakov’s acclaimed production in Baden-Baden, portrayed Lucrezia Borgia in Bologna, and appeared as Liù in Philipp Stölzl’s Turandot at the Berlin State Opera. Further successes include The Nightingale in Stravinsky’s Le Rossignol (directed by Robert Lepage), Marfa in Dmitri Tcherniakov’s The Tsar’s Bride in Berlin and at La Scala, and Leïla in Wim Wenders’ production of Les Pêcheurs de perles under Daniel Barenboim.
As a celebrated concert singer, Olga Peretyatko regularly performs with renowned orchestras and conductors in prestigious concert halls worldwide, giving international song recitals. She sang Rachmaninoff’s The Bells with the Orchestre de Paris at the Grande Salle Pierre Boulez in Paris, and presented a program with the Danish Chamber Orchestra under Ádám Fischer during the Mozart Week in Salzburg. She performed Strauss’ Four Last Songs at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. and on a China tour with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal. In 2018, she celebrated her acclaimed solo recital debut at La Scala in Milan.
Olga Peretyatko has released six albums on Sony Classical and has received numerous prestigious awards, including the OPUS Klassik (2018), ECHO Klassik (Best Solo Album, 2015), and the Premio Franco Abbiati della Critica Musicale Italiana. In 2021, she released her new solo album Songs for Maya, dedicated to the birth of her daughter. Produced by the legendary Russian label Melodiya, the album features 23 lullabies from around the world, personally selected and sung by Olga in their original languages.
Born in St. Petersburg, Olga Peretyatko began her musical training in the children’s choir of the Mariinsky Theatre. After graduating from the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, she studied at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin, the Hamburg State Opera Studio, and the Accademia Rossiniana in Pesaro.
