About Marina Poplavskaya

Muscovite Marina Poplavskaya scored a sensation as Rachel in La Juive with the Royal Opera, Covent Garden in 2006 and thereafter received invitations from theatres around the world. She made her French stage debut as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, and last season her US debut as Natasha in War and Peace at the Metropolitan Opera under Valery Gergiev. She returns to the Royal Opera as Elisabeth de Valois in Don Giovanni and Tatyana in Eugene Onegin.

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Date and venue	Title
6-Dec-2012 Royal Opera House, Covent Garden	120 years on: Meyerbeer's Robert le diable returns to Covent Garden
Robert le diable’s 1831 opening was perhaps the most successful opera première of all time. Meyerbeer was lauded by luminaries like Chopin, Dumas, Balzac and Heinrich Heine, the opera was played in 69 cities in its first two years and spawned an entire genre of French Grand Opera. Why, then, has it fallen from grace, last night’s Covent Garden production being the first since 1890? Read full review...
29-Sep-2012 Dorothy Chandler Pavilion	Domingo's latest turn as baritone proves triumphant for LA Opera and Verdi
Almost any singer with Plácido Domingo’s résumé would be happily retired from the stage at age 71, but Domingo is obviously not any singer. With over 140 roles performed, the Spanish tenor’s legacy is unparalleled, and that legacy is still growing. Domingo’s addition of the baritone role Francesco Foscari in Verdi’s I due Foscari will undoubtedly cause cynics to roll their eyes. Hopefully there were some in the audience for this performance, as their skepticism proved to be unwarranted. Read full review...
19-Jul-2012 Royal Opera House, Covent Garden	Jette Parker Young Artists Tenth Anniversary celebrated at ROH: Il Viaggio a Reims
The Tenth Anniversary of the Royal Opera House’s Jette Parker Young Artists Scheme is a landmark of no small size. This summer performance brought back some of the best singers it has produced for a semi-staged rendition of Rossini’s one-act 1825 opera Il Viaggio a Reims. It was a celebratory display of virtuoso held together with a generous dose of self-indulgence. Read full review...
27-Oct-2011 Royal Opera House, Covent Garden	The Royal Opera House celebrate Placido Domingo's forty years of Covent Garden performances
In 1971, the thirty year-old Placido Domingo made his Covent Garden début as Cavaradossi in Puccini's Tosca and in the intervening forty years, he has given two hundred and thirty performances in more than twenty-five roles for Royal Opera House audiences. Read full review...

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