Violetta Grishko

Born on August 17

Violetta Grishko was born in Krasnoyarsk in 1991. She graduated from the Gorky Pedagogical College, then the Hvorostovsky Siberian Institute of Arts majoring in Opera Singing and Opera Training (the class of People's Artist of Russia Natalia Nikolaevna Sokolova). At the state exam, she sang the part of Gilda from the opera Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi.

Between 2013 and 2021, she was a soloist of the choir Tebe Poem (its artistic director is Honoured Figure of Art of Russia Konstantin Yakobson).

Since 2021, Violetta has been a principal singer of the Hvorostovsky Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre.

During the tour of the Theatre at the Bolshoi Theatre in 2022, she sang the roles of Zerlina (Don Giovanni) and Ellen (Lakme).

She repeatedly took part in the Dmitri Hvorostovsky Festival in Krasnoyarsk.

The roles performed: 

2021
Zerlina – Don Giovanni by Mozart

2022
Ellen – Lakme by Léo Delibes
Waitress – art-cafe Moulin Rouge
Barbarina – Le Nozze di Figaro by Mozart
Hare – Morozko (Jack Frost) by Mikhail Krasev
Fox the sick-nurse– Why Do Foxes Need Hare’s Ears by Nikolai Peskov
Cat – Svetoforkin

2023
Héloïse – Barbe-Bleue by Jacques Offenbach