Olga Tolkmit

Olga Tolkmit was born in Kingisepp, the Leningrad region, graduated from the M. Mussorgsky Saint-Petersburg Musical College (the Department of Folk Singing) and the N. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint-Petersburg State Conservatory (training course of Associate Professor N. Drozdova-Wainer). She is a diploma winner of the Elena Obraztsova 8th International Competition of Opera Singers. 

Since 2010 Olga has been a soloist of the Mikhailovsky Theatre, where among others she played the parts of Prilepa (“The Queen of Spades” by P. Tchaikovsky), Iolanta (“Iolanta” by P. Tchaikovsky), Mimi and Musetta (“La bohème” by G. Puccini), Tatiana (“Eugene Onegin” by P. Tchaikovsky). In 2012 she was nominated for “The Golden Mask” National Theatre Award for her role of Mimi in play “La bohème” of the Mikhailovsky Theatre. Since 2013 Olga has been collaborating with the Mikhailovsky Theatre as a guest soloist. At the Bard Summer Scape Festival (USA, 2013) Olga Tolkmit sang the part of Electra in opera “Oresteia” by S. Taneyev (Director — Thaddeus Strassberger, Conductor — Leon Botstein). She has been a soloist of Helikon-Opera since 2015.

Repertoire in "Helikon-opera"

as Tatiana in "Eugene Onegin" by P. I. Tchaikovsky
as Micaela in "Carmen" by G. Bizet
as Nedda in "Pagliacci" by R. Leoncavallo
as Liu in "Turandot" by G. Puccini
as Juliette in the "Hin und Zurück" performance
as Donna Anna in "The Stone Guest" by A. S. Dargomyzhsky
as Alexis in "L'île de Tulipatan" by J. Offenbach
as Liza in "The Queen of Spades" by P. I. Tchaikovsky
as Mimì in "La bohème" by G. Puccini