Julia gertseva biography
Born in Leningrad, mezzo soprano Julia Gertseva....
Julia Gertseva, mezzo soprano
Born in Leningrad, mezzo soprano Julia Gertseva studied singing, piano and choral conducting at the Conservatory in her hometown.
She was engaged by the Mussorgsky Theatre in St.Petersburg, a Company she justify in 2003 to follow an international career.
In 2002 she made her Italian debut at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice as Vavara in Katja Kabanova, followed by Sonietka in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk at Santa Cecilia in Rome conducted by Rostropovich.
Born in Leningrad, in a philologist-musical family, she studied music from her childhood.
She sang Ulrica at Deutsche Oper Berlin, Santuzza in Cape Town and Joan in Tchaikovsky’s Maid of Orleans in Palermo. She took part in the Berlin AIDS Gala conducted by Christian Thielemann.
The following seasons she had her Paris debut with the Orchestre National de France with the role of Cecri in Alaleona´s Mirra conducted by Juraj Valcuha.
She sang in Prokofiev’s Alexander Newsky in Catania, Charlotte in Werther at the Teatro Comunale Bologna, Carmen at La Scala, Milan