Anna Viktorova sang Marina Mnishek in Musorgskyj’s Boris Godunov at the Santiago de Chile Theater alongside with Roberto Scandiuzzi where she also debuted as Amneris in Aida. She repeated her interpretation of Marina Mnishek in Musorgsky’s Boris Godunov at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo. She also sang Maddalena and Giovanna in Rigoletto at the Teatro alla Scala in Milano. At the Roma Opera, she sang Nutrice in La Dama di Picche, directed by Richard Jones, Ostessa in Prokof’ev’s The Fiery Angel, directed by Emma Dante and conducted by Alejo Perez, and Filipevna in Evgenij Onegin, directed by Robert Carsen and conducted by James Conlon. At the Teatro di San Carlo in Napoli, she sang Nutrice in La dama di Picche with Juraj Valčuha as a conductor.
Born in Moscow, she studided at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory and graduated in opera singing in 2008. She attended masterclasses by Grace Bumbry, Brigitte Fassbaender, Mietta Sighele, Veriano Lucchetti, Veronica Dunne, Elena Obraztsova, and Evgenij Nesterenko. She performed the role of Olga in Tchaikovsky’s Evgenij Onegin at the Stanislavsky Theater in Moscow and the Opera Studio of the Moscow Conservatory, Polina in Tchaikovsky’s La dama di Picche at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow and the Latvian National Opera in Riga, Dalila in Saint-Saëns’ Samson et Dalila at the Dublin Opera Festival, Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana at the Riva del Garda Festival. Her repertoire includes roles from operas by Rimsky Korsakov (The Tsar’s Bride, Lyubasha; The May Night, Anna; The Tale of Tsar Saltan, Babarikha ), Amneris in Aida, and Azucena in Il Trovatore, performed at the Novaya Opera and the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow.
She gave concerts as a soloist in France, Austria, Lithuania, Japan, and Germany. Significant engagements in recent seasons include concerts at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and Rotterdam, with symphonic-vocal music by Rachmaninov, Verdi’s Requiem with the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, Beethoven’s Sumphony n .9 in Foggia, Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder conducted by Renato Rivolta at the Cortina d’Ampezzo Festival and the Quirinale Concerts in Roma, the closing concert of the Year of Russia in China, at the Riva del Garda Festival with the Luigi Cherubini Orchestra. As part of the MiTo Festival in Milano, she sang as a soloist in Pergolesi’s Salve Regina and Stabat Mater, both conducted by Daniele Rustioni. Her repertoire includes also Verdi’s Requiem, Rossini’s Stabat Mater, Musorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death, and Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky Cantata.
