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Anastasia Bondareva (Mezzo-soprano) |
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Born: Russia |
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The Russian mezzo-soprano, Anastasia Bondareva, graduated from the Academic Music College of the Moscow Conservatory after studying organ and classical singing. She also completed studies in classical singing at the V.S. Popov Academy of Choral Singing. She developed and perfected her singing by attending master-classes with Michael Chance, Benjamin Bagby, Marc Mauillon and Jean-François Novelli. She is also a laureate of international competitions.
Anastasia Bondareva is a specialist in opera and chamber music. She specialises in performances of Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque music. She sings in large-scale international projects; performances of European and Russian Baroque operas at the Hermitage Theatre in St Petersburg, the Moscow Philharmonia, the St Petersburg Philharmonia, and The Natalia Sats Children’s Theatre in Moscow. Her repertoire includes the roles of Cybele in Lully's Atys; Dido and The Sorceress in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas (her performance of Dido was noted by the nominating commission on the long list for the “Golden Mask” awards in 2020); Venus and Daughter of the Stream in Purcell's King Arthur; Mother in Landi's Il Sant'Alessio; Tirinto in George Frideric Handel's Imeneo; Venus in Monteverdi's Ariadna, in the reconstruction by Andrew Lawrence-King) and others.
Anastasia Bondareva works with such leading musicians as Andrew Lawrence-King, Marc Mauillon, Jean-François Novelli, Thierry Peteau. She collaborates with all the leading Russian early music ensembles including Alta Capella, Pratum Integrum, Ensemble Labyrinthus, The Soloists of Catherine the Great, Chronos, Globus Music, The Baroque Soloists, Collegium Musicum Ensemble, Moscow, and the Medievallica project.
Anastasia Bondareva constantly participates in international Early Music festivals, including Earlymusic, Musica Mensurata, Tage Alter Music Regensburg, La Renaissance, and also the Russian festivals “Seeing Music”, “Moscow Autumn”, “Vozvraschenie”. During the international Musica Mensurata festival of medieval music she has performed such unique programmes as “The Conductus of Walter of Châtillon”, English music of the 13th Century, “Roman de Fauvel” (the compositions of Philippe de Vitry, Jehan de Lescurel, Petrus de Cruce and unknown French composers of the 14th Century). Since 2017 she has performed in the “All of Bach Cantatas” project with Roman Nasonov and the Collegium Musicum Ensemble, Moscow at the Ss. Peter and Paul Lutheran Cathedral of Moscow.
As part of Ensemble Labyrinthus Anastasia Bondareva has been featured on CD recordings for “Carmina Anglica”, “Carmina Tripodium”, “Medieval marriage music”, with Chronos ensemble she has recorded “Life of the Most Holy Theotokos. Old Russian polyphony”; “Early Part Singing from the time of Peter the Great. Divine Liturgy”; “Early Part Singing. Evangelical hymns”.
Anastasia Bondareva is the director of the Ex Oriente Lux vocal ensemble of the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Moscow. |
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Sources:
Alta Capella Website
Contributed by Aryeh Oron (December 2021) |
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Recordings of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works |
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Conductor |
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Ivan Lebedev |
Alto |
[CV-5] (2019, Video): BWV 33 |
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Oleg Romanenko |
Alto |
[S1-1] (2017, No video): BWV 4, BWV 131
[S1-2] (2017, No video): BWV 79, BWV 80
[S1-3] (2017, No video): BWV 61, BWV 147a
[S1-4] (2018, No video): BWV 81, BWV 83
[S1-5] (2018, No video): BWV 249, BWV 6
[S1-6] (2018, No video): BWV 75, BWV 76
[S2-2] (2018, No video): BWV 155, BWV 161
[S2-3] (2018, No video): BWV 132, BWV 63
[S2-4] (2019, Video): BWV 18, BWV 182
[S2-5] (2019, Video): BWV 12, BWV 21
[S3-3] (2019, Video): BWV 40, BWV 121
[S4-1] (2020, Video): BWV 78, BWV 17
[S4-2] (2020, Video): BWV 248/1, BWV 197a, BWV 91
[S4-3] (2021, Video): BWV 25, BWV 135, BWV 1083
[S4-4] (2021, No video): BWV 166, BWV 108
[S5-5] (2022, Video): BWV 104, BWV 85, BWV 112
[S5-6] (2022, Video): BWV 146, BWV 147
Все кантаты Баха [S6-2] (2022, Video): BWV 96, BWV 164, BWV 80
Все кантаты Баха [S6-3] (2022, Video): BWV 101, BWV 90
Все кантаты Баха [S6-4] (2022, Video): BWV 62, BWV 36, BWV 140
Все кантаты Баха [S6-5] (2023, Video): BWV 171, BWV 41
Все кантаты Баха [S6-6] (2023, Video): BWV 154, BWV 124, BWV 157
Все кантаты Баха [S6-7] (2023, Video): BWV 188, BWV 148
Все кантаты Баха [S6-8] (2023, Video): BWV 145, BWV 67
Все кантаты Баха [S6-10] (2023, Video): BWV 119, BWV 120, BWV 190
Все кантаты Баха [S7-1] (2023, Video): BWV 24, BWV 167, BWV 69a, BWV 237
Все кантаты Баха [S7-2] (2023, Video): BWV 138, BWV 48, BWV 109
Все кантаты Баха [S7-3] (2023, Video): BWV 179, BWV 89, BWV 70
Все кантаты Баха [S7-4] (2023, Video): BWV 63, BWV 243a, BWV 238
Все кантаты Баха [S7-5] (2024, Video): BWV 153, BWV 73, BWV 227
Все кантаты Баха [S7-6] (2024, Video): BWV 134, BWV 66, BWV 86 |
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