Saturday and Sunday, January 30th – 31st<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ilija M. Kolarac Endowment – Rossi Fest office 17-20h<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A world-renowned opera singer, a professor of vocal pedagogy, and a long-term associate of Rossi Fest, Olga Makarina, joined us in this festival edition as well and held a two-day masterclass for young opera singers. Having in mind current epidemiological measures and restrictions, Ms Makarina joined us online via Zoom, while the participants and pianist Sr\u0111an Jarakovi\u0107 worked from the office of Rossi Fest at Kolarac Endowment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The soprano from the Metropolitan Opera Olga Makarina was born in Archangel, Russia, where she earned her Masters in piano and voice from the St Petersburg Conservatory. She has won several important prizes and awards and is especially notable for her pedagogical work with young singers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Her first New York appearance was at the New York City Opera as Lucia di Lammermoor<\/em>. She has performed as well Gilda<\/em>in Rigoletto<\/em>, Konstanze in Mozart’s Abduction from the Seraglio and Olympia<\/em> in Les Contes d’Hoffmann<\/em>, Ilia<\/em>in Idomeneo<\/em>(Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival), Violetta<\/em>in La Traviata<\/em> (Kirov Opera) and Eudoxie<\/em>in La Juive<\/em> (Opera Orchestra of New York). Apart from these, she has also appeared as Zerbinetta<\/em>in Ariadne auf Naxos<\/em> with the Minnesota Orchestra<\/em> and Orff’s Carmina Burana<\/em>. She performed the demanding role of Elettra<\/em>in Mozart’s Idomeneo<\/em>at the Metropolitan Opera<\/em> with James Levine conducting, while at Opera Pacific<\/em> she was Adina<\/em>in the Jonathan Miller production of Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She appeared twice at the Bard Festival<\/em>, singing scenes from Meyerbeer’s Robert le Diable<\/em> and Les Huguenots<\/em> as well as the final scene of Norma<\/em>and then as a soloist in the Grand Messe<\/em> of Franz Liszt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Apart from the Metropolitan Opera<\/em>, Olga Makarina performed on various stages in Prague, Bratislava, Palm Beach, Warsaw, and in\u00a0Carnegie Hall<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Masterclass with a world-renowned opera singer, a professor of vocal pedagogy and long-term associate of Rossi Fest, Olga Makarina<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":9667,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"","ocean_second_sidebar":"","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"","ocean_custom_header_template":"","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9627","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9667,"url":"https:\/\/rossifest.estrela.io\/en\/en-2021\/","url_meta":{"origin":9627,"position":0},"title":"2021","author":"claudia","date":"15 January 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Program and participants of the third edition of the festival that will be held between 24. 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