Natalia Buklaga
Mezzo-soprano
BIOGRAPHY
Buklaga is a soloist of the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre. She graduated from the Perm State Institute (Academy) of Art and Culture (class of Docent Elena Oparina).
She has collaborated with such conductors as Teodor Currentzis, Valery Platonov, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Alexander Anisimov, Valentin Uryupin, Andrey Danilov, Artyom Abashev, Olivier Cuendet. She has worked with directors such as Georgy Isaakyan, Olga Enns, Philip Himmelmann, Andrejs Žagars, Katerina Evangelatos.
Her repertoire includes the title roles in Bizet’s Carmen and Massenet’s Cléopâtre (Life of an Actress), Dorabella (Cosi fan tutte) and Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro) in Mozart’s operas; Lola (Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana), Prince Charmant (Massenet’s Cendrillon, or the Tale of Cinderella), Prince Orlovsky (Strauss’s Die Fledermaus), The Muse, Nicklausse (Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann), Ljubasha (Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar's Bride) and Olga (Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin).
In 2011 she performed the leading role in the opera Le Pater by von Albrecht, the world premiere of which was held at the Diaghilev International Festival. In 2013 she took part in the recording of Stravinsky’s Les noces for the Sony Classical label, together with the musicAeterna orchestra and chorus under the baton of Currentzis.
