BIRTHPLACE Moscow, Russia

THIS SEASON Olga in Eugene Onegin at the Met, Anna in Les Troyens with Paris’s Bastille Opera, Ulrica in Un Ballo in Maschera in Hamburg, Fricka in Die Walküre, Marfa in Khovanshchina, and Carmen with Deutsche Oper Berlin.

PREVIOUS MET APPEARANCES Azucena in Il Trovatore (debut, 1999), Pauline in The Queen of Spades, Erda in Das Rheingold and Siegfried, Anna, and Ulrica.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Carmen at Paris’s Bastille Opera, Covent Garden, Vienna State Opera, and in Munich, Berlin Verona, Bologna, and Tokyo; Marfa in Brussels, Erda in Vienna, San Francisco, Madrid, and Washington; Dalila in Samson et Dalila in Paris; and productions of La Gioconda in Barcelona and Falstaff in Florence. Appeared for the first time at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1991 as Olga in Eugene Onegin with the Bolshoi Opera.