Nadezhda Petrenko

Nadezhda Petrenko is a Ukrainian soprano singer, working mostly in Prague.

Born in Kiev, Petrenko graduated from the Musical Academy of Arts in 1987 National Music Academy of Ukraine, finishing studies of solo singing and chorus conduction.

She became a soloist of the State Opera in Kiev. She appeared as Liza in Kirill Molchanovs opera The Dawns Here Are Quiet and Marfa in The Tsars Bride by Rimsky-Korsakov. She sang in operas of Ukrainian composers and as Donna Anna in Mozarts Don Giovanni. At the same time she worked with the Men's Choir of Ukraine.

In 1987 she won the Ukrainian chamber soloists competition. She appeared on stages in Germany, Poland, Bulgaria, Norway, USA and Switzerland. She sang in several concert programmes of TV station CBN (USA) as well as on Russian, Ukrainian and Czech television.

In 1991 she was invited on the occasion of reopening of Estate Theatre to the National Theatre in Prague to sing as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras. She became a permanent guest of the Prague National Theatre, where she played roles of Mimi in Puccinis La Bohéme or Tatiana in Eugene Onegin by P. I. Tchaikovsky.

In 1993 Petrenko appeared at Dresdens Semperoper stage in Tchaikovsky's Iolanta as the eponymous heroine. That same year, she won the prize of the Czech Union of Musical Theatre for her Violetta in Verdis La Traviata in J. K. Tyl Theatre in Pilsen.