Olga Kulchynska

Biography

Since receiving First Prize at the Francisco Viñas Vocal Competition in Barcelona in 2015, Olga Kulchynska appears with opera houses including the Metropolitan Opera, Opernhaus Zürich, the Bayerische Staatsoper, Opéra National de Paris, and the Gran Teatre del Liceu.

In the 2023/24 season, Kulchynska makes her highly anticipated Royal Opera House debut as Micaëla in Carmen. She returns twice to the Metropolitan Opera for performances as Musetta in La bohème and Liù in Turandot. Her touching portrayal of Ilia in Idomeneo is reprised with the Bayerische Staatsoper, and she joins La Monnaie in Brussels for a revival of Dmitri Tcherniakov’s critically acclaimed production of The Tale of Tsar Saltan as Tsarevna Swan-Bird.

Kulchynska is a graduate of the Young Artist Program of Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. During her tenure she rose to become a leading member of the company, making notable debuts including Marfa in the production of Rimsy-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride, Corinna in Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims, Gilda in Rigoletto and Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro. She was educated in music theory at the R. Glier Kyiv Institute of Music and continued with vocal studies at the Pyotr Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine.