Soprano
Young lyric soprano Kseniia Proshina was born in Samara, where she first studied piano and voice at a local music school before continuing her studies at the Academy of Arts in the class of Professor Raisa Gladkova. In 2014, Kseniia moved to Italy to study with Professor Alessandro Svab at the Accademia Lirica Santa Croce in Trieste, Italy where she prepared and performed roles such as Gilda in Rigoletto, Adina in L’Elisir d’Amore and Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro.
From year 2019 Kseniia Proshina was a member of the Academy of Paris National Opera and during the 2021-22 season Kseniia performed on the stages of the Paris and Dijon opera houses in several productions, such as Le Nozze di Figaro, L’incoronazione di Poppea and Parsifal.
In the fall of 2022 Kseniia featured the iconic role of Juliette in Roméo et Juliette by Charles Gounod at the Malmö opera in Sweden and later in the same season she sang the title role of Zaide in Rennes and Nantes.
Her following guest engagements lead her to the Komische Oper Berlin, where she first sang Romilda in the Stefan Herheim production of Händel’s Xerxes, followed by the Queen of Shemakha in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Golden Cockerel (Le coq d’or), staged by Barrie Kosky. In 2023 Kseniia appeared as Don Giovanni’s Donna Anna in Glyndebourne and in the fall of 2024 she made her house debut at Frankfurt Opera with Gilda.
In spring 2025 Kseniia returned to the stage of the Malmö opera where she sang Musetta in Puccini’s La Bohème and in fall 2025 she made her house debut as Juliette in Romeo et Juliette at the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto. In this current season 2025/26 Komische Oper Berlin has invited her for two roles: Donna Anna followed by her role debut as Violetta in Nicola Raab’s staging of La Traviata.
Kseniia’s next house debuted will find place in fall 2026, when she will feature her signature role Juliette at La Monnaie theater in Brussels.
Interview Kseniia Proshina / Opéra de Paris
