ALLA POPOVA

Alla Popova graduated from the Estonian Academy of Music in 2002 in the class of Professors Taru Valjakka and Tamara Novitsenko and completed her master’s degree studies there in 2003. From 2000-2002 she was a guest soloist in the Vanemuine and since 2002 has been an opera soloist here. In 1997 Popova was awarded first prize in the Tiit Kuusik Song Contest. In summer 2002 she participated in the master classes of maestro Lino Puglisi in Allerona, Italy and in spring 2007 in the master classes of Ingrid Kremling.

Popova’s roles have included Fatime (Weber’s Abu Hassan), Tatjana (Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin), Mimi (Puccini’s La Bohème), Butterfly (Puccini’s Madame Butterfly), Amelia (Verdi’s A Masked Ball), Violetta (Verdi’s La Traviata), Lisa (Bellini’s La Sonnambula), Pamina (Mozart`s The Magic Flute), Antonia (Offenbach`s The Tales of Hoffmann), Rosalinde (Strauss`s The Bat) and Countess Mariza (Kalman’s Countess Mariza).

She has also participated in the performances of other major works, Orff’s Carmina Burana and Honegger’s Joan of Arc at the Stake (the Virgin) (2005, Vanemuine; 2007, Birgitta Festival) and given several solo concerts.