Veronika Dzhioeva

Veronika Dzhioeva (Ossetian: Джиоты Романы чызг Вероникæ; born 29 January 1979) is a South Ossetian operatic soprano singer.

Dzhioeva was born in Tskhinvali, South Ossetia. Since she was 13 years old she performed in solo concerts as a dancer, but her real dream at that time was to become a singer. She finished her training in Vladikavkaz College in 2000 and then 5 years later graduated from the Saint Petersburg Conservatory where her teacher was Tamara Novichenko. Following that she attended numerous master classes with Elena Obraztsova, Joan Sutherland, and Luciano Pavarotti. As of 2006 she works in Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre and since 2010 is a guest soloist with Bolshoi Theatre.

In 2006 Veronika sang a part from Mozart's Così fan tutte while being in a role of Fiordiligi at Moscow's International House of Music and then sang Great Mass in C minor at the Moscow Conservatory. During the same year she appeared as Princess Urusova in Shchedrin's Boyarynya Morozova and then in 2007 appeared as Zemfira in Rachmaninoff's Aleko along with Russian National Orchestra and its conductor Mikhail Pletnev. The same year she performed both Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem and Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2 at the same place. In 2008 she sang as Mimì in La bohème at the Moscow Conservatory and then returned to Requiem performance which was staged in Saint Petersburg. In 2007 and 2009 respectively she performed Tishchenko’s Flight of Time at the Saint Petersburg Philharmonia and then played as the title role in Thaïs in Estonia and as Micaëla in Carmen in Seoul, South Korea.