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In 2023, soprano Ekaterina Protsenko will appear as Papagena in Floris Visser’s production of Die Zauberflöte at Nederlandse Reisopera.

This summer, she made her successful debut as Amastre in Francesco Cavalli's Il Xerse at the Festival della Valle d'Itria under the baton of Federico Maria Sardelli and direction of 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.

In 2022, the soprano appeared with great success 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 the autumn of 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 and staging by KS Brigitte Fassbaender. She also 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 also performed excerpts from Bach’s St. Matthew Passion and Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri under the baton of Erwin Ortner in Schönbrunn Palace Theatre.

The soprano portrayed roles such 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, the International Singing Competition ‘Feruccio Tagliavini’ in 2016 and the winner of the singing competition ‘Bravo Barocco’ in St. Petersburg in 2013.

She took part in several master classes with Krassimira Stoyanova, Ileana Cotrubas, Elena Obraztsova, Giuseppe Sabbatini, Vesselina Kasarova, Robert Holl, Helmut Deutsch, Vladimir Chernov and Sergei Leiferkus.

Ekaterina Protsenko completed her Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna under the tutelage of Univ.-Prof.in. KS Edith Lienbacher and the Master of Arts in Lied, Oratorio and Concert Performance under Prof. Florian Boesch.