Soprano
Soprano Kseniia Proshina was born in Samara/Russia, where she first studied piano and voice at a local music school followed by 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.
In 2019 Kseniia Proshina joined the Academy of Paris National Opera and sang Barbarina in Le Nozze di Figaro and Blumenmädchen in Parsifal as well as Amore and Valetta in L’incoronazione di Poppea at Opéra de Dijon.
After her studies at the Paris Academy, Kseniia featured the iconic role of Juliette in Roméo et Juliette by Charles Gounod at the Malmö Opera in Sweden in fall 2022 and later in the same season she sang the title role of Zaide in Rennes and Nantes.
Her following guest engagements lead her to guest engagements at 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, staged by Barrie Kosky. In fall 2023 Kseniia appeared at Glyndebourne Opera as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni and soon after she made her house debut at Frankfurt Opera with Gilda in Rigoletto.
In spring 2025 Kseniia returned to Malmö Opera, where she sang Musetta in Puccini’s La Bohème. In season 2025/26 Kseniia made her house debut as Juliette in Romeo et Juliette at the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto, followed by two roles at the Komische Oper Berlin: Donna Anna and her role debut as Violetta in Nicola Raab’s staging of La Traviata.
Kseniia’s house debut at the Royal Theatre of La Monnaie in Brussels took place in fall 2026, when she featured again her signature role of Juliette. In addition, Kseniia will sing for the first time for the Spanish audience as Pamina at Teatro de la Maestranza in Sevilla in 2027.
Interview Kseniia Proshina / Opéra de Paris
