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“The most consistently attractive voice on stage.”
— Opera News
“Ksenia Berestovskaya has a spectacular, rich mezzo soprano, brassy and bold.”
— Seen and Heard International
“A major mezzo voice.”
— DC Metro Theater Arts
“A fine low mezzo and a spunky stage presence.”
— Voce di Meche
“I was charmed by the deep Russian mezzo of Ksenia Berestovskaya’s Amelfa.’
— Parterre Box
 

Siberian mezzo-soprano Ksenia Berestovskaya holds an extensive portfolio of concert work throughout the United States, Russia and the United Kingdom.

Born in Omsk, Russia during the dissolution of the Soviet Union to a mathematician father and engineer mother, Berestovskaya experienced music as a manifestation of strength – and as an experience that bound the generations together.

“My grandparents lived through a world war, through concentration camps, through military service. My aunts were children of war,” she says. Decades later, her father’s family would still sing old folks songs a capella in Ukranian; her mother’s – convening relatives distant and close around the kitchen table – traditional songs in Russian. “People would always sing. Whether they were happy or sad, they would sing.”

Berestovskaya earned a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from the New England Conservatory in Boston, MA. During her career as a student she performed a variety of roles ranging from Prince Orlofsky in Die Flederemaus (at Boston’s Cutler Majestic Theatre) to Annina in La Traviata (at the Bijou Theatre in Knoxville, TN).

Berestovskaya is a first-place NATS Mid-South Region competition winner, a finalist of The American Prize in Voice/ Friedrich & Virginia Schorr Memorial Award, and a semifinalist in the Francisco Araiza's Sonora International Opera Competition.

 

Performances

Songs of Travel : Recital

with Anna Keiserman (piano)

Hudson Falls, NY USA

(POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19)

Joseph Haydn: Il Mondo della Luna
(Lisetta)

Miami, FL, USA

(POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19)

Johann Strauss: Die Fledermaus
(Prince Orlofsky)

Miami, FL, USA

March 9,10

Sunrise Pops Orchestra Concert

Miami, FL, USA

January 26

Johann Strauss: Die Fledermaus
(Prince Orlofsky)

St. Louis, MO

November 9, 11

Rimsky Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel (Amelfa)

May 11-18

New York, New York, USA

 

Semifinals: Sonora International Opera
Competition Francisco Araiza

May 24-30

Sonora, Mexico

 

International Festival of Pitic

May 28-30

Hermosillo, Mexico

 

 

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