Ekaterina Protsenko - Opera Singer

Ekaterina Protsenko is a graduate of the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna (MDW).

In the season 2023/24 she became an ensemble member of Tchaikovsky State Perm Opera and Ballet Theater, where she performed such roles as Oscar (Un ballo in maschera), Brigitta (Iolanta), Despina (Così fan tutte), Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor). She will appear as well as Ann Truelove (Rake’s progress) and Pamina (Die Zauberflöle) in spring 2024.

Ekaterina has performed 23 concerts in 18 cities in China on the main venues such as Wuxi Grand Theater, Nanjing Poly Grand Theater, Tianjin Grand Theater, Shanghai oriental Art center and others with Operetta Program, conducted by Raphael Schlüsselberg.

In 2023, she appeared as Papagena in Floris Visser’s production of Die Zauberflöte at Nederlandse Reisopera. In the same year she was nominated as the Best Female Young Artist by The Austrian Music Theater Preis 2023.

In 2022, Ekaterina successfully jumped into the role of Phani in Rameau’s Les Incas du Pérou (Les Indes galantes) in Teatro Amintore Galli in Rimini together with Filarmonica Toscanini under the baton of Giulio Prandi.

She sang the soprano part from Bach’s Mass in B minor with Bach Collegium Zürich in Großmüster Zürich and Vienna Stephansdom and took part in Gerd Kühr’s world premiere Versuch über das Unbegreifliche at Styriarte.

Ekaterina made her successful italian debut as Amastre in Francesco Cavalli's Il Xerse at the Festival della Valle d'Itria, condacted by Federico Maria Sardelli and directed by Leo Muscato.

She also sang at the “Concerto per lo spirito” with music of Claudio Monteverdi in the Basilica of San Martino with the Baroque orchestra Modo Antiquo.

Ekaterina appeared as Beppi in Gerd Kühr's Stallerhof at Neue Oper Wien, for which she received a lot of attention from the Viennese press. Ekaterina made her Swedish debut at the International Vadstena Academy Festival as Gelinda in Pollarolo's Il colore fa la regina at Vadstena gamla teater.

In 2021, she celebrated her debut as Eurydice in Gluck's Orphée ed Eurydice at Theater an der Wien (Wiener Kammeroper) and gave a solo recital with the Russian baroque orchestra Pratum Integrum in Moscow.

In autumn 2019, Ekaterina appeared at the Wiener Konzerthaus with the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Alexander Polishchuk. In the summer, she performed the role of Second maid in Flotow’s Martha at the jOPERA festival in Austria under the baton of Georg Fritsch, staged by KS Brigitte Fassbaender.

Ekaterina sang Beethoven’s Klärchen-songs, alongside KS Thomas Hampson, with the Orchester Wiener Akademie, conducted by Martin Haselböck.

In April 2019 she made her debut in the Tonhalle Düsseldorf as duet partner of tenor Yusif Eyvazov.

She performed excerpts from Bach’s St. Matthew Passion and Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri, conducted by Erwin Ortner in Schönbrunn Palace Theatre.

Ekaterina as well reformed such roles as Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) at the Sommerserenaden Graz and in a production of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Despina (Così fan tutte) in the South Korean Daegu National theatre, Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) at the Mozarthaus in Vienna, Belinda (Dido and Aeneas) in St. Petersburg and Clarice (Il mondo della Luna) at the jOPERA festival.

Ekaterina was awarded the 3rd prize at the International Haydn Competition in 2022. She is also the prizewinner of the International Singing Competition Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg in 2020 and the International Singing Competition Feruccio Tagliavini.