Since her spectacular role debuts as Rusalka next to Piotr Beczala and as Rachel in La Juive next to Neil Shicoff’s legendary Eleazar at the Vienna State Opera in 2014/15, the “magnificent voice” (Die Presse) Olga Bezsmertna has established herself as one of today’s outstanding singers.

She will open her 2024/25 season with another return to the Teatro alla Scala, where she will sing Freia in Das Rheingold and Ortlinde in Die Walküre in the new productions by David McVicar and under the baton of Christian Thielemann. She will return once more to Milan as Sifare in a concert version of Mitridate under Christophe Rousset, with a subsequent concert at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris. On the concert stage, she will also perform Strauss’ Four Last Songs with the Czech Radio Symphony in Prague, Mahler’s 4^th Symphony in Katowice and at the Beethoven Festival in Warsaw and Verdi’s Messa da Requiem with the Slovak Radio Symphony in Bratislava, amongst others. She will welcome the New Year with gala concerts with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie under Pietari Inkinen.

Olga Bezsmertna’s engagements in the 2023/24 included the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro at La Scala, Desdemona in Otello at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Górecki’s Symphony No. 3 “of Sorrowful Songs” with the Silesian Philharmonic in Katowice and Bruckner’s Te Deum with the Slovak State Philharmonic Košice and at the Festival Smetana’s Litomyšl.

In the summer of 2024, she sang Beethoven’s 9^th Symphony under Keri-Lynn Wilson, on tour with the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra in cooperation with the Metropolitan Opera. These exceptional concerts in Paris, Warsaw, London, New York and Washington DC were sung in the Ukrainian language.

For her outstanding performances in Italy the season prior, she was awarded the prestigious Franco Abbiati Prize, the annual award of the Association of Italian Music Critics, in the category “Best Female Singer”.

In the 2022/23 season, Olga Bezsmertna performed amongst others the title role in Emma Dante’s new production of Rusalka at the La Scala in Milan. She also appeared as the Duchess of Parma in Doctor Faust at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and as Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro at the Semperoper Dresden. In the summer of 2023, she returned to the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma to sing in Beethoven’s 9^th Symphony and perfomed the role of Marguerite in Goundod’s Faust at the Sigulda Opera Festival in Latvia.

In 2021/22 she sang Ghita in a concert version of Zemlinski’s Der Zwerg at the George Enescu Festival in Budapest and made her house and role debut as Diana in Cavalli’s La Calisto at La Scala. She returned to Milan in May 2022 as Echo in Ariadne auf Naxos.

In 2015 Olga Bezsmertna made her Salzburg Festival debut as Marzelline in a new production of Fidelio (directed by Claus Guth and conducted by Franz Welser-Möst) alongside Jonas Kaufmann and Adrianne Pieczonka. She also appeared at the Salzburg Festival in Strauss’ Die Liebe der Danae.

After graduating from the Kiev National Academy of Music in 2010 and her brilliant victory in the Bertelsmann Foundation’s “Neue Stimmen” competition in 2011, Olga Bezsmertna became an ensemble member at the Vienna State Opera, where she has since sung numerous important roles, including Contessa (Le nozze di Figaro), Fiordiligi (Cosí fan tutte), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Liù (Turandot), Mimí (La Bohème), Mélisande (Pélleas et Mélisande), Tatjana (Eugene Onegin), Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus) and Alice Ford (Falstaff).

She regularly works with renowned conductors such as Adam Fischer, Alain Altinoglu, James Conlon, Christian Thielemann, Zubin Mehta, Daniel Harding, Axel Kober, Franz Welser-Möst, Ivor Bolton and Andrés Orozco-Estrada and stage directors such as Marco Arturo Marelli, Stefan Herheim, Barry Kosky, Christoph Loy, David McVicar, Sven-Eric Bechtholf und Adrian Noble.