Philharmonia Orchestra: Ekaterina Gubanova

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Ekaterina Gubanova

Russian mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Gubanova was born in 1979 and aged 23, she became a member of the Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and sang several roles for the company including Suzuki, Madame Butterfly and Third Lady, Die Zauberflöte. Following her studies, in 2005 she sang to immense critical success Brangane, Tristan und Isolde at the Paris Opera in Peter Sellar’s renowned production. She reprised this role in concert at the Festpielhaus Baden-Baden and again at the Rotterdam Festival under Gergiev.

Her Japanese debut came singing the Verdi Requiem conducted by Riccardo Muti at the Tokyo Opera and she returns to Tokyo this season as Brangäne conducted by Semyon Bychkov. Elsewhere in Europe she debuted as Nicklausse, Les Contes d’Hoffmann at the Teatro Real Madrid, a role which she went on to sing at the Paris Opera.

Ekaterina sang Principessa Eboli at the Stars of the White Nights Festival Saint Petersburg (Gergiev) and will return this as Lubasha, The Tsar’s Bride and as Marguerite in Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust. She made her Metropolitan Opera debut in December 2007 as Hélène Bezukhova in Prokofiev’s War and Peace. Her American début came with the Los Angeles Philharmonic (Salonen) as soloist in Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky Cantata, a work she has already performed at the BBC Proms (Gatti). In concert, Ms Gubanova has been invited to perform Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde in Paris, Moscow and Dublin and she will sing the Ruckert Lieder in Wiesbaden in 2009.

At the Salzburg Festival she appeared in 2005 as the Third Lady in Die Zauberflöte (Muti), and in 2006 as Flosshilde, Das Rheingold (Rattle), in concert in Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis (Haitink) and as soloist under Riccardo Muti at the Whitsun Festival.

2008 saw her as Neris in a new production of Medée at La Monnaie, Brussels. She sings the Verdi Requiem in Madrid with the Spanish National Orchestra and in Gran Canaria under Riccardo Muti. She returns to Rotterdam to sing Das Lied von der Erde to open their festival and in the autumn she returns to Paris to sing Brangäne. 2009 sees her make her German stage debut at the Bayersiche Staatsoper as Amneris and her Italian stage debut as Klytemnestra in Iphigenie en Aulide at Opera di Roma conducted by Riccardo Muti.