Highlights

• 2014 studies with Alessandro Svab at the Accademia Lirica Santa Croce in Trieste

• 2016 graduated with highest honors fro Samara Academy of Arts 

• 2016 1st prize winner of Saveliy Orlov and Hramov Competitons in Samara.

• 2019/20 joining the Opera studio of the Paris National Opera

• 2020 winner of the "Grand prix" at the International Gianluca Campochiaro competition held at Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania

Biography

Young Russian soprano Kseniia Proshina joined the Academy of Paris National Opera in 2019. During season 2021-22 Kseniia will perform 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 fall 2022 she will interpret the main role of Juliette in Roméo et Juliette by Charles Gounod at Malmö opera in Sweden and later in the same season she will sing the title role of Zaide in Rennes and Nantes.

Kseniia was born in Samara, where she first studied piano and voice in a local music school before continuing her studies at the Academy of Arts in the class of Prof. Raisa Gladkova. As a part of her studies she sung the title roles in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Snegurochka (The Snow Maiden) by Rimsky-Kossakov as well as in K. Molchanov’s opera Zori zdes’ tihie (The dawns here are quiet).

In 2014 Kseniia Proshina 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.

Kseniia was awarded prizes in several singing competitions, including the Hramov Competiton in Samara, Toti del Monte in Treviso and Francesco Vinas in Barcelona. In 2020, she won the Grand Prix of the International Gianluca Campochiaro competition, held in the famous Teatro Massimo di Bellini in Catania.

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