Soprano

Marina Poplavskaya was born in Moscow and studied at the State M. Ippolitov-Ivanov Music Institute with P. Tarassov and I. Shapar. She has won First Prize in the Bella Voce Panrussian Competition for Young Singers 1997, Second Prize in the First International Elena Obraztsova Competition 1999, a prize in the Queen Elizabeth International Competition 2000, Third Prize in the Rimsky-Korsakov International Competition 2003, First Prize in the Romanciada International Competition of romance songs 2004 and First Prize in the Maria Callas Grand Prix in Athens 2005.
She joined the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at Covent Garden in September 2005 debuting in “Götterdämmerung”. Her wide repertoire ranges from Russian to Italian opera as well as sacred music and symphonic works.