Kolosova Alisa
Mezzosoprano
Alisa Kolosova performs with great success in many of the world's most prestigious opera houses and festivals, including the Opéra National de Paris, the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Salzburg Festival, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and Carnegie Hall in New York.
She took part in the Atelier Lyrique of the Opéra National de Paris and the Salzburg Festival Young Singers Program, establishing herself on the international scene in 2010 at the Salzburg Whitsun Festival with her performance in Mozart's La Betulia liberata under the baton of Riccardo Muti.
Between 2011 and 2014 she was a member of the ensemble of the Wiener Staatsoper, where she performed roles such as Polina in Pikovaja Dama and Olga in Eugene Onegin; Fenena in Nabucco; Annio in La Clemenza di Tito and Suzuki in Madama Butterfly.
She collaborates with conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Ivor Bolton, Vasily Petrenko, Alain Altinoglu, Andris Nelsons, Gianandrea Noseda, Franz Welser-Möst, Sir Andrew Davis and Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
Her most recent engagements include La Montagne Noire in Dortmund; Néris in Médée at the Staatsoper Berlin; Baba the Turk in The Rake's Progress at the Glyndebourne Festival; Beethoven's Missa Solemnis with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Riccardo Muti; Madama Butterfly at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus in Athens; Un Ballo in maschera at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich; Oedipus Rex at the National Theatre in Prague; Nabucco at the Opernhaus Zürich and Eugene Onegin at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris.
She made her debut at the Arena in the title role of Carmen in 2024, returning there in 2025 and 2026 also as Amneris in Aida.
Biography updated to July 2026
