The Russian soprano Alyona Rostovskaya has been a member of the ensemble at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden since the 2023-2024 season. Her roles there in the 2025-2026 season include Kupava in the new production of Rimsky-Korsakov’s ‘Snegurochka (The Snow Maiden)’. This will be followed by her debuts at the Oper Frankfurt as Micaëla in Barrie Kosky’s production of ‘Carmen’ and at the Theater Bonn as Agathe in ‘Der Freischütz’.
Alyona Rostovskaya studied singing at the renowned Russian Music Academy Gnessin. She also studied acting and dance. The young singer attended masterclasses with Ramón de Andrés, Ludmila Magomedova, Krassimira Stoyanova and Christa Ludwig, among others. She received further artistic inspiration from Raffaele Cortesi, Malcolm Martineau, Craig Terry and Alfredo Abbati, among others. In 2018, she was selected by Evamaria Wieser for the Salzburg Festival’s renowned Young Singers Project.
She gained her first stage experience as Tatyana (‘Eugene Onegin’) and as Contessa (‘Le nozze di Figaro’) in productions by the renowned Gnessin Opera Studio. This was followed by her debuts as Pamina (‘Die Zauberflöte’), in the title role in Tchaikovsky’s ‘Iolanta’ and as Mimì (‘La Bohème’). In 2020-2021, she was a member of the ensemble at the Volkstheater Rostock, where she made her debut as the Female Chorus in ‘The Rape of Lucretia’ and as Bystrouška in ‘The Cunning Little Vixen’, directed by Vera Nemirova. She also appeared as Mimì at the Eutin Festival in 2021 and as Tatyana at the Theater Luzern in 2022. From 2021-2023, she was a member of the ensemble at the Theater Heidelberg, where she was acclaimed as Governess in ‘Turn of the Screw’, Giulietta in Bellini’s ‘I Capuleti e i Montecchi’, in the title role in “Rusalka” and as Antonia in ‘Les Contes d’Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann)’.
In 2023, she joined the ensemble of the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden. There and at the Internationale Maifestspiele, she has appeared as Contessa, Hanna Glawari (‘The Merry Widow’), Micaëla, Pamina, Agathe and Alice Ford (‘Falstaff’), among others. In 2024, she made her debut at the Komische Oper Berlin as Contessa in Kirill Serebrennikov’s production of ‘Le nozze di Figaro’.
In addition to her opera engagements, Alyona Rostovskaya is also active as a lieder and concert singer. She has performed in concert with Theodor Currentzis and the SWR Symphony Orchestra, Marcus Bosch and the North German Philharmonic Orchestra and Leo McFall and the Hessisches Staatsorchester, among others.
Updated 2025
