Olga Peretyatko

Olga Alexandrovna Peretyatko (Russian: Ольга Александровна Перетятько; born 21 May 1980 in Leningrad) is a Russian operatic soprano. As a child Peretyatko sang in the children's choir of the Mariinsky Theatre. As a student of the Hamburg Opera Studio she received the second prize at Operalia Competition (2007), an event sponsored by tenor Plácido Domingo.

Her repertory includes operas from Handel and Mozart to Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss. A participant at the Accademia Rossiniana in Pesaro, she has regularly sung at the Rossini Opera Festival: Corinna and Contessa di Folleville (Il viaggio a Reims, 2006), Desdemona (Otello, 2007), Giulia (La scala di seta, 2009), Aldamira (Sigismondo, 2010), and the title role in Matilde di Shabran (2012). In 2013 she sang during the Mozartwoche in Salzburg. In 2014, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Elvira in Bellini's I puritani.

Peretyatko gained international attention as Stravinsky's Rossignol in Robert Lepage's production that premiered in Toronto in 2009, then presented at the Aix Festival in 2010 and subsequently at the Opéra de Lyon, the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York and Netherlands Opera in Amsterdam. She achieved great success in her role debuts as Adina in L'elisir d'amore in Lille, in the title role of Lucia di Lammermoor at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, as Gilda in Rigoletto at La Fenice in Venice, as well as at the Festival Avenches. In 2013 and 2014, Peretyatko's commitments included the Mozart Weeks, Salzburg Festival (Giunia in Lucio Silla), debuts at the Vienna State Opera, Zürich Opera House (Rigoletto), the Berlin State Opera and La Scala in Milan (Marfa in Die Zarenbraut), and performances at the Deutsche Oper Berlin (Adina in L'elisir d'amore).