Janne Ševtšenko

(soprano)

 

EDUCATION AND WORK

Janne Shevtshenko graduated from the Estonian Academy of Music in 1998 as a student

of Anu Kaal. During the years 1992–2004, she was engaged at the Estonian National Opera

as a chorus singer. Since 2004, she is the soloist in the same company. Her debut as an opera

singer was in 1999 as Zerlina in Mozart’s “Don Giovanni”. She has also performed at Von Krahl Theatre and at the revue theatre Bel Etage.

 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

She is the winner of Harjumaa County Prize 2011 and the SEB Audience Award 2013.

 

REPERTOIRE

Eliza Doolittle (Loewe’s “My Fair Lady”)

Domna Saburova (Rimsky-Korsakov’s “The Tsar’s Bride”)

Giannetta (Donizetti’s “L’Elisir d’amore”)

Lucia (Hindemith’s “The Long Christmas Dinner”)

Silva (“Die Csardasfürstin” by Kálmán)

Despina (Mozart’s “Così fan tutte”)

Marcellina (Mozart’s “Le nozze di Figaro”)

Second Lady (Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte”)

Clorinda (Rossini’s “La Cenerentola”)

Nedda (Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci”)

Lola (Mascagni’s “Cavalleria rusticana”)

Haiderl (“Das Dreimädelhaus” by Schubert and Berté)

Ännchen (“Der Freischütz” by Weber)

Frasquita (Bizet’s “Carmen”)

Chloé (“The Queen of Spades” by Tchaikovsky)

Rose and Rowan (“The Little Sweep” by Britten)

Antonia (Leigh’s “Man of La Mancha”)

Sally (Kander’s “Cabaret”)

Fedora Palinska (Kálmán’s “Die Zirkusprinzessin”)

Madeleine de Faublas (Ábrahám’s “Ball im Savoy”)

Barbara (“Eine Nacht in Venedig” by Strauss)

Franziska Cagliari (“Wiener Blut” by Strauss)

Valencienne (“Die lustige Witwe” by Lehár)

Creature no 4 (Tamberg’s “Creatures”)

Iti (Ehala’s “The Bumpy”)

Lagle (Puur’s “The Colours of Clouds”)

 

 

Recordings:

Bel Etage: 1900. Exerpts from Performances (CD, 2003)

The Monckton Album (CD, 2004)

Gentel-Dentel (CD, 2004)

Voices of the Estonian National Opera (CD, 2009)

O. Ehala’s The Bumpy (DVD 2003)