Maria Gortsevskaya

Fyodor in Boris Godunov was the mezzo-soprano Maria Gortsevskaya's Mariinsky debut, sung at nineteen; she had trained first as a choral conductor and only then as a singer, at the conservatoire of her native Saint Petersburg, and took first prize at the international competition in Verviers in 1995. Her engagements have taken her to the Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, La Scala, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Glyndebourne and the Rossini Opera Festival, with Olga, Rosina and Dorabella among her parts. She has worked repeatedly with Daniel Barenboim, in Eugene Onegin and in the Ring, and joined the teaching staff of the Anton Rubinstein International Music Academy in Berlin in the 2025/26 winter semester.