Ekaterina Protsenko

Soprano

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The Austrian-Russian Soprano Ekaterina Protsenko has a powerful lyric soprano with a warm, young colour and a shiny top.
She has been a member of the Perm Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Theatre ensemble since the 23/24 season. She has performed in the following roles: Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor), Anne Truelove (The Rake’s Progress), Ännchen (Der Freischütz), La Fée (Cendrillon), Oscar (Un ballo in maschera), Despina (Cosi fan tutte), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Brigitta (Iolanta), Masha/Prilepa (Pique Dame). Ekaterina performed at the Moscow Philharmonic with Handel’s Brockes Passion under Ekaterina Antonenko. At the Vienna Musikverein, she sang Beethoven’s Klärchen Lieder with the Vienna Academy Orchestra under Martin Haselböck and with KS Thomas Hampson as narrator. Ekaterina toured the Netherlands with the Nederlandse Reisopera in the role of Papagena from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. Ekaterina sang the role of Phani in Rameau’s Les incas du Pérou (Les Indes galantes) under the baton of Giulio Prandi and with the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini at the Teatro Galli in Rimini. Ekaterina celebrated a major artistic success in 2022 with the role of Beppi in Gerd Kühr’s opera Stallerhof at the Neue Oper Wien. This role earned her a nomination in the category „Best Female Newcomer 2023“ for the Austrian Music Theatre Award. In 2022, the singer made her debut at the Festival Valle d’Itria as Amastre in Cavalli’s opera „Il Xerse“, directed by Leo Muscato and conducted by Federico M. Sardelli at the Teatro Verdi with the Modo Antiquo orchestra. Ekaterina sang the soprano solo in Bach’s Mass in B minor with the Bach Collegium Zurich at the Grossmünster in Zurich and at St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna.
In the 2020/21 season, she performed at the Theater an der Wien and the Vienna Chamber Opera as Isifile (Cavalli, Il Giasone), Euridice (Gluck, Orfeo ed Euridice) and Blonde (in the children’s opera Figaro und die Detektiv*innen with music by Mozart). In autumn 2021, Ekaterina Protsenko gave a baroque aria recital with the Pratum Integrum orchestra in Moscow. In 2019, she made her debut at the Vienna Konzerthaus in a gala concert with the Slovak Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Polishchuk and appeared as the Second Maid in Flotow’s Martha at the jOPERA summer festival conducted by Georg Fritsch and directed by KS Brigitte Fassbaender. In the same year, she appeared at the Tonhalle Düsseldorf in an aria evening as Yusif Eyvazov’s partner. Excerpts from Bach’s „St Matthew Passion“ and Schumann’s „Das Paradies und die Peri“ under Erwin Ortner took her to the Schönbrunn Palace Theatre in Vienna. On stage, she played Susanna in Mozart’s „Le nozze di Figaro“ at both summer serenades in Graz and in a production by the MDW, Despina in Mozart’s „Così fan tutte“ at the Daegu National Theatre in South Korea, Pamina in Mozart’s „Die Zauberflöte“ at the Mozarthaus Vienna and Belinda in Purcell’s „Dido and Aeneas“ in St. Petersburg. In 2018, she sang Clarice in the children’s version of Haydn’s Il mondo della luna at the jOPERA Festival. In 2018, she performed alongside KS Michael Schade in a charity Advent concert organised by the Friends of the Vienna State Opera. She won first prize in the „Bravo Barocco“ competition and in 2016 she was a prize winner in the „Feruccio Tagliavini“ singing competition in Deutschlandsberg. In 2020, she was a prize winner at the International Singing Competition Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg, and in 2022 she won third prize at the 4th International Haydn Competition for Classical Song and Aria. In 2021, Ekaterina Protsenko completed her master’s degree in singing with Prof. KS Edith Lienbacher and in song, oratorio and concert with Prof. Florian Boesch at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with distinction.