Opera
A remarkably versatile soprano with a warm, pure lyric timbre — at home in Puccini, in the Russian romance, and on the great concert stages.
Lola won bursaries to train at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Royal Academy of Music in London, and studied at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory and the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna, guided by Professor Emeritus James Gibb and Maestro Sergei Leiferkus. In Veneto she worked with Maestro Danilo Rigosa, who helped her find her voice.
Highlights
- Musikverein, Vienna — United Europe Festival Orchestra2026
- Lerici Music Festival, Lerici2026
- New Year’s concert, Locri — cond. Gianluca Marcianò2025
- Madama Butterfly premiere, NCPA Mumbai
- Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
- Shostakovich Philharmonia, St Petersburg
- State Historical Museum, Moscow
Bel canto
The Italian line: legato, colour and ornament in the service of the word.
Una voce italiana — a journey through elegant, intimate bel canto ariettas to the passionate romantic world of Giacomo Puccini. The first half, Il Salotto, is the Italian drawing room: Bellini, Donizetti and Tosti, a Sicilian folk song and Gastaldon’s Musica proibita.
Il Salotto — first half
- Malinconia, ninfa gentileBELLINI
- Vaga luna, che inargentiBELLINI
- Vanne, o rosa fortunataBELLINI
- Se a te d’intorno scherzaDONIZETTI
- La zingaraDONIZETTI
- Quel guardo il cavaliere · Don PasqualeDONIZETTI
- IdealeTOSTI
- SognoTOSTI
- ’A vucchellaTOSTI
- Caru cugnatu, la facistu lesta (A la barcillunisa)SICILIAN TRADITIONAL
- Musica proibitaGASTALDON
Puccini & Verismo
Gianni Schicchi · La bohème · Madama Butterfly
Puccini runs through Lola’s career from her Madama Butterfly premiere at the NCPA in Mumbai to O mio babbino caro at the Musikverein in Vienna in January 2026, and Quando m’en vo’ at the St Petersburg Philharmonia in June 2026. In Una voce italiana the second half, La Donna, l’Amore ed il Destino, moves from Bellini and Catalani to Mimì, Butterfly and Tosca.
La Donna, l’Amore ed il Destino — second half
- Casta Diva · NormaBELLINI
- Qui la voce sua soave · I PuritaniBELLINI
- Ebben? Ne andrò lontana · La WallyCATALANI
- Sì, mi chiamano Mimì · La bohèmePUCCINI
- Un bel dì, vedremo · Madama ButterflyPUCCINI
- Vissi d’arte · ToscaPUCCINI
Encores
- O mio babbino caro · Gianni SchicchiPUCCINI
- ’O sole mioDE CURTIS
- Funiculì, funiculàDENZA
Puccini — O mio babbino caro, Gianni Schicchi · Musikverein, Vienna · January 2026
Puccini — Quando m’en vo’, La bohème · St Petersburg Philharmonia · June 2026
Classical romances
Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov, Cui — and Dvořák’s Rusalka.
Trained in Moscow and Vienna, Lola sings the Russian romance in the original language, from Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov to Glinka and Cui — romances as well as opera arias from the classical Russian and Slavic repertoire.
Tchaikovsky — Was I Not a Little Blade of Grass in the Meadow? · Musikverein, Vienna · January 2026
Tchaikovsky — Tatyana’s Letter Scene, Eugene Onegin · Lerici Music Festival
Dvořák — Song to the Moon, Rusalka
Glinka — I Remember that Wondrous Moment · St Petersburg Philharmonia · June 2026
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