Vasilisa Berzhanskaya

She graduated from the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music and the V.S. Popov Academy of Choral Art. Between 2015 and 2017 she was part of the Bolshoi Theatre's Young Artist Program, in 2016 of the Accademia Rossiniana in Pesaro under the guidance of Alberto Zedda, and in 2017 of the Young Singers Project at the Salzburg Festival. From 2017 to 2019 she was a soloist at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

She is a regular guest on the most prestigious international stages, including the Wiener Staatsoper, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Metropolitan Opera, the Teatro alla Scala, the Opéra National de Paris, the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, and the festivals of Salzburg, Aix-en-Provence, the Arena di Verona and the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro. In Italy she also performs at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, the Teatro Massimo in Palermo and the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples.

Her repertoire of choice ranges from Baroque to bel canto and French opera. She interprets leading roles such as Norma and Adalgisa (Norma), Romeo (I Capuleti e i Montecchi), Sara (Roberto Devereux), Giovanna Seymour (Anna Bolena), Angelina (La Cenerentola), Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Carmen, Charlotte (Werther), Alcina, Tatiana (Eugene Onegin), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Mimì (La bohème) and Liù (Turandot). Recently she made her debut in the title roles in Semiramide, Medea and Agrippina, as well as Elena in La donna del lago.

She collaborates with conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Chailly, Daniele Gatti, Michele Mariotti, Daniel Oren, Daniele Rustioni and Roberto Abbado. In the 2025/26 season she is engaged in Amsterdam (I Capuleti e i Montecchi), Turin (La Cenerentola), Paris, Berlin, and Pesaro (Le Siège de Corinthe).

In 2020 she made her debut in Verona in the role of Isabella in L’Italiana in Algeri at the Teatro Filarmonico, where she returned in 2023 as Charlotte in Werther. She made her debut at the Arena in 2022 as Fenena in Nabucco, a role she reprised in 2023 and 2025. In 2023 and 2024 she was also Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia.

She makes her debut as Violetta on the stage of the Veronese amphitheatre in 2026 for the 103° Arena Opera Festival.

Biography updated to July 2026