Zhanna Alkhazova, soprano, the finalist in the Lakes Region Opera Competition and the first place winner of the Rhode Island NATS Competition. She is also the recipient of the Robert P. Manero Award the Samuel Vaillancourt Folk Art Memorial Scholarship. Ms. Alkhazova has recently made the switch from mezzo soprano to soprano and her operatic credits include the roles of Dido in Dido and Aeneas, Infirmiera and La Badessa in Suor Angelica, Sandman in Hansel and Gretel, and partial roles of Countess and Marcellina in Le nozze di Figaro, Mimi in La Boheme and Marguerite in Faust.  Internationally she has performed in Chiari, Italy in the partial role of Donna Elvira from Don Giovanni, and toured Canada and the Republic of Ireland as the soprano soloist in Honegger’s King David.  Ms. Alkhazova has performed with such companies as Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Boston, Opera Providence, MIT Gilbert and Sullivan Players, Vocal Arts, MassTheatrica, OperaWorks of Los Angeles, CA, OperaHub, Longwood Opera and Opera del West.

 

Ms. Alkhazova is an active recitalist in the New England area and has been a featured soloist in the Opera Providence Water FireWorks event, Fleet Concert Series, the Summerville Public Concert Series, the Plymouth Summer Concert Series and the First Night of Worcester Concert Series.  She was chosen by the composer Joseph Summer to be among a select group of featured performers to premier his new works in The Shakespeare Concert Series.

 

A native of Moscow, Russia, Ms. Alkhazova graduated magna cum laude from Clark University with a bachelor’s degree in Music and International Relations and completed her graduate studies in International Development.  In May of 2008, she completed her second Masters degree at the Boston University School of Music in Vocal Performance, where she studied with the renowned soprano Maria Spacagna. While at the University, Ms. Alkhazova performed the roles of the Second Lady in Mozart’s Magic Flute and Berta in Rossini’s Il Barbiere of Siviglia, both mainstage productions as part of the Boston University Opera Institute.