was born in Russia. Her repertoire includes Donna Elvira and Donna Anna in Don Giovanni (Mozart), Violetta in La traviata, Leonora in Il trovatore, Desdemona in Otello, the title role in Aida (Verdi), Jenufa (Janacek), Rusalka (Dvorak), Tosca, Mimi in La boheme, Liu in Turandot (Puccini), Micaela in Carmen (Bizet), Tatiana in Yevgeny Onegin (Tchaikovsky) and many others. She performs regularly at La Scala, the Vienna Staatsoper, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and in the opera houses of Amsterdam, Cagliari, Lima, Buenos Aires, Moscow, Washington, Los Angeles, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart, Tokyo and many others. This is her Israeli Opera debut.