Galia Ibragimova

Mezzo-soprano Galia Ibragimova studied at the Moscow Gnesin Academy of Music (1992–1997). She is the laureate of the Vincenzo Bellini Competition (Italy, 1995) and the Belvedere Competition (Vienna, 1996), and the winner of the 1997 edition of the Angelica Catalani Competition (Italy). Since 1998 she has been a soloist of the State Opera Prague. Her creations on its stage have comprised the title role in Bizet’s Carmen; Maddalena in Rigoletto; Azucena in Il trovatore; Amneris in Aida; Suzuki in Madama Butterfly; Olga in Eugene Onegin; Alice in Meyerbeer’s Robert le diable; Gertrude in Thomas’s Hamlet, and others. Her chief international triumphs have included an operatic recital tour of the U. S. A. (Atlanta, Georgia; Washington, D. C., 1999), as well as guest appearances as Amneris in Japan (with José Cura as Radames, 2001), and in The Netherlands, during an operatic tour where she sang Carmen and Adalgisa in Norma (2003). Taking part in the Wagner Festival at Wells, Austria, she was Waltraute in Die Walküre (2001); at Dublin’s Opera Festival she guest appeared in the role of Countess Coigny (Giordano’s Andrea Chénier, 2002); and at the Opera Festival of Gars, Austria, sang Carmen (2003).