Olga Peretyatko

Peretyatko met conductor Michele Mariotti while working on Rossini's Sigismondo in 2010. They married in August 2012. They lived between Berlin, Pesaro, their respective homes, and Bologna, where they jointly owned a residence. On 29 June 2018 she announced on Facebook the filing of divorce and withdrawal from the upcoming production of Don Giovanni at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna which was conducted by her ex-husband.

In 2017, she sang the main role of Leïla in Wim Wenders's take on Bizet's Les pêcheurs de perles, conducted by Daniel Barenboim.

The year 2014 saw Peretyatko's debuts at the Zürich Opera House as Gilda, La Scala in Milan as Marfa, and the Metropolitan Opera as Elvira. She gave performances as Adina (Internationale Maifestspiele Wiesbaden, Teatro di San Carlo, Deutsche Oper Berlin) and Fiorilla (Aix-en-Provence Festival, Bavarian State Opera) and performed in Bruckner's Te Deum at the Salzburg Festival, concert performance of Tancredi conducted by Alberto Zedda as a part of RNO Grand Festival. She was also featured in the 2014 Concert de Paris, an annual event celebrating Bastille Day, in addition to concert tours in Germany with the Munich Symphony Orchestra and to China with Montreal Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kent Nagano, in which she performed Strauss' Four Last Songs. In 2015, she debuted to rave reviews as Violetta in La traviata at the Lausanne Opera, followed by a new production of the same title at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden. She returned to the Vienna State Opera for I puritani, to La Scala for Rossini's Otello, to the Metropolitan Opera for Rigoletto, along with debuts at the Teatro Regio in Turin in I puritani, at the Tivoli Concert Hall in Copenhagen and at La Monnaie in Bruxelles in L'elisir d'amore and at the Teatro Real in Madrid in Rigoletto.

In 2011, at the Opéra de Lille she debuted as Adina in L'elisir d'amore, a role which she reprised at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden and Lausanne Opera. She also achieved great success in role debuts as the title role of Lucia di Lammermoor (Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Deutsche Oper Berlin) as well as Giulietta in I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Opéra de Lyon). In 2012, she debuted as the title role in Alcina at the Lausanne Opera, Fiorilla in Il turco in Italia at De Nederlandse Opera, and Elvira in I puritani at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. She additionally performed in Carmina Burana under Paavo Järvi at the Rheingau Musik Festival and a concert performance of The Nightingale with the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Charles Dutoit. In 2013, her engagements included Giunia in Lucio Silla conducted by Marc Minkowski at the Mozartwoche in Salzburg, Salzburg Festival, and Musikfest Bremen, debuts at the Vienna State Opera, Verona Arena (Gilda in Rigoletto), and performances at the Hamburg State Opera (Adina, Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos) and Berlin State Opera (Marfa in The Tsar's Bride). On 26 November 2013, she made her debut performance in Russia in a concert with the Russian National Orchestra conducted by Mikhail Pletnev at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow.

Peretyatko gained international attention when she performed the title role in Robert Lepage's production of Stravinsky's The Nightingale which premiered at the Canadian Opera Company in 2009 and later reprised at the 2010 Aix-en-Provence Festival and in subsequent seasons at the Opéra National de Lyon, the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York and De Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam. In 2010, she debuted at the Lausanne Opera as Desdemona. She was also praised as Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro (Théâtre des Champ-Élysées, Teatro Comunale, Florence), Blonde in Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Bavarian State Opera, Liceu), and Gilda (La Fenice in Venice, Arènes d'Avenches).

In 2007, she debuted at the Berlin State Opera as a flowermaiden in Wagner's Parsifal and performed Olympia in The Tales of Hoffmann at the Komische Oper Berlin. In November, she debuted in Paris in as Anne Trulove in Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. She then performed the Voice from Heaven in Verdi's Don Carlo conducted by Lorin Maazel at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, where she later returned as the Forest Bird in Wagner's Siegfried conducted by Zubin Mehta. In 2008, she debuted as Gilda in Rigoletto at the Teatro Rojas in Toledo, later at the Theater Lübeck and Teatro Comunale di Bologna. She also performed Adele in Die Fledermaus at the Opéra National de Lyon.

Parallel to her studies, Peretyatko participated in the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg, where she made her opera debut, as Theofane in Harry Kupfer's production of Handel's Ottone. She also performed Tamiri in Meyerbeer's Semiramide at 2005 Rossini in Wildbad, which was recorded and later released on CD. From 2005 to 2007, she participated in the Young Artists' Program of the Hamburg State Opera. A participant of Alberto Zedda's Accademia Rossiniana, in 2006, she performed in Il viaggio a Reims as Contessa di Folleville and Corinna at the Rossini Opera Festival. She returned to the following editions, singing Desdemona (Otello, 2007), Giulia (La scala di seta, 2009), Aldamira (Sigismondo, 2010), and the title role in Matilde di Shabran (2012).

From 2002, Peretyatko studied at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" with Brenda Mitchell. She has won the International Belcanto Prize at Rossini in Wildbad (2005), second prize and Mozart prize at DEBUT Competition in Bad Mergentheim (2006). In 2007, she won second prize at Operalia. She started taking occasional private lessons with soprano Mariella Devia, whom she admires, since 2013.

Peretyatko first arrived to Berlin as a tourist in 2001. Impressed, she moved in the following year, living in a student booth (Studentenbude) in Prenzlauer Berg. She remained in the city after graduation, residing in an apartment on Nollendorfplatz. In 2018 she took up residence in Lucerne. Being a karate red-belt, which she practiced in her childhood, she also does yoga and jogging for relaxation and fitness and enjoys electronic music. Besides native Russian, she is also fluent in German, Italian, English in addition to slightly limited French.

Peretyatko was born in Leningrad, to Russian mother and Ukrainian father, a baritone singer in the choir of the Mariinsky Theatre. After her parents' divorce when she was 7, she moved to Visaginas, in the Lithuanian SSR, to live with her mother. In 1995 she returned to her native city to live with her father. She then joined the Mariinsky Children's Choir, singing second alto, meanwhile studying choral conducting at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. As opposed to initial perception as a mezzo-soprano, she transitioned to soprano when starting private studies with Larisa Gogolevskaya in 2000.

Olga Alexandrovna Peretyatko (Russian: Ольга Александровна Перетятько ; born 21 May 1980) is a Russian operatic soprano. She has been known for coloratura soprano roles particularly in operas by Rossini and Mozart. In recent years, she further explores heavier roles in bel canto repertoire and more lyrical roles. She was noticed internationally after performing the title role in Stravinsky's The Nightingale in 2009.