Since her spectacular role debuts as Rusalka next to Piotr Beczala and as Rachel in La Juive next to Neil Shicoff’s legendary Eleazar at the Vienna State Opera in 2014/15, the “magnificent voice” (Die Presse) Olga Bezsmertna has established herself as one of today’s outstanding singers.

In 2025/26, she will return to the Teatro alla Scala in David McVicar’s Ring des Nibelungen, this time as Gutrune in the new production of Götterdämmerung, as well as in Ring cycles, in which she will also appear on stage as Freia and Ortlinde. She will tour Japan with the Vienna State Opera; on the program is Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro. She will also be involved in a recording of Thomas de Hartmann’s opera Esther for the Pentatone label, conducted by Kirill Karabits, in which she will sing the role of Elise. In concert, she will perform Chausson’s Poème de l’amour et de la mer and Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with the George Enescu Philharmonic under Patrick Lange, as well as in Britten’s War Requiem, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the composer’s death.

She opened her 2024/25 season with another return to the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, where she sang Freia in Das Rheingold and Ortlinde in Die Walküre in new productions by David McVicar and conducted by Simone Young. She returned to Milan again as Sifare in a concert performance of Mitridate under Christophe Rousset. She also appeared as the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro at the Zurich Opera House and as Ghita in Zemlinsky’s Der Zwerg under Donald Runnicles at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. On the concert stage, she performed Strauss’s Four Last Songs with the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra in Prague, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra in Warsaw, and Mahler’s Fourth Symphony in Katowice, among other works. She welcomed the New Year with gala concerts with the German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra under Pietari Inkinen. At the end of the season, she performed Penderecki’s St. Luke’s Passion at the Baltic Opera Festival in Sopot.

Olga Bezsmertna’s engagements in the 2023/24 included the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro at La Scala, Desdemona in Otello at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Górecki’s Symphony No. 3 “of Sorrowful Songs” with the Silesian Philharmonic in Katowice and Bruckner’s Te Deum with the Slovak State Philharmonic Košice and at the Festival Smetana’s Litomyšl.

In the summer of 2024, she sang Beethoven’s 9^th Symphony under Keri-Lynn Wilson, on tour with the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra in cooperation with the Metropolitan Opera. These exceptional concerts in Paris, Warsaw, London, New York and Washington DC were sung in the Ukrainian language.

For her outstanding performances in Italy the season prior, she was awarded the prestigious Franco Abbiati Prize, the annual award of the Association of Italian Music Critics, in the category “Best Female Singer”.

In the 2022/23 season, Olga Bezsmertna performed amongst others the title role in Emma Dante’s new production of Rusalka at the La Scala in Milan. She also appeared as the Duchess of Parma in Doctor Faust at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and as Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro at the Semperoper Dresden. In the summer of 2023, she returned to the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma to sing in Beethoven’s 9^th Symphony and perfomed the role of Marguerite in Goundod’s Faust at the Sigulda Opera Festival in Latvia.

In 2021/22 she sang Ghita in a concert version of Zemlinski’s Der Zwerg at the George Enescu Festival in Budapest and made her house and role debut as Diana in Cavalli’s La Calisto at La Scala. She returned to Milan in May 2022 as Echo in Ariadne auf Naxos.

In 2015 Olga Bezsmertna made her Salzburg Festival debut as Marzelline in a new production of Fidelio (directed by Claus Guth and conducted by Franz Welser-Möst) alongside Jonas Kaufmann and Adrianne Pieczonka. She also appeared at the Salzburg Festival in Strauss’ Die Liebe der Danae.

After graduating from the Kiev National Academy of Music in 2010 and her brilliant victory in the Bertelsmann Foundation’s “Neue Stimmen” competition in 2011, Olga Bezsmertna became an ensemble member at the Vienna State Opera, where she has since sung numerous important roles, including Contessa (Le nozze di Figaro), Fiordiligi (Cosí fan tutte), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Liù (Turandot), Mimí (La Bohème), Mélisande (Pélleas et Mélisande), Tatjana (Eugene Onegin), Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus) and Alice Ford (Falstaff).

She regularly works with renowned conductors such as Adam Fischer, Alain Altinoglu, James Conlon, Christian Thielemann, Zubin Mehta, Daniel Harding, Axel Kober, Franz Welser-Möst, Ivor Bolton and Andrés Orozco-Estrada and stage directors such as Marco Arturo Marelli, Stefan Herheim, Barry Kosky, Christoph Loy, David McVicar, Sven-Eric Bechtholf und Adrian Noble.