Ksenia Skorokhodova

Biography

After graduating from the Volgograd Music College, Ksenia began studying solo singing with Professor Tatiana Smelkova at the St. Petersburg University of Music. She graduated in 2015 and moved to Vienna shortly afterwards. In the following years, she performed at solo concerts and as Gianetta in G. Donizetti's opera “L'elisir d'amore” and as Lucy in Menotti's opera “The Telephone” as part of the Plusopera project (Otto Edelmann Society) (Musical director: Anna Sushon, director: Leonard Prinsloo). 

In 2017, Ksenia made her debut in the great hall of the Cairo Opera as the first solo soprano in Mozart's great C minor Mass at the invitation of the chief conductor of the Cairo Symphony Orchestra Maestro Ahmed El Saedi. 

In the summer of 2019, she was accepted into the academy of the Klang Bad Hall Festival Austria for the production "Die Feldermaus" and received several months of language coaching and special role studies (conductor: Ernst Theis, director: Gerald Pichowetz).

In February 2020 Ksenia was one of the winners of the international singing competition Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg Germany. In 2020 she started her master's degree at the Anton Bruckner Private University Linz Austria with Katerina Beranova, Thomas Kerbl, Robert Holzer and Peter Pawlik. During her studies she is part of the university productions “La finta giardiniera” by Mozart as Arminda and she performed as Ifigenie in “Oreste” by G.F. Händel in Black Box of state theatre Linz Austria (director: Peter Pawlik, conductor: Sigurd Hennemann).

In May 2022 she took part in a master class and concert with Sumi Jo in the Brucknerhaus Linz Austria. She also became a finalist of the fourth Operetta Competition 2022 in Linz Austria and in July 2022 she performed as Olga in "The Merry Widow" by F. Lehar at the Operetta Festival Bad Hall Austria (director: Diethmar Straßer, conductor: Walter Rescheneder).

Pamina in “The Magic Flute” by W.A. Mozart Stadttheater Bad Hall Austria, September 2023 (director: Thomas Kerbl, musical director: Matthias Achleitner)

Since October 2022 Ksenia has been a guest at the Musiktheater Linz, Austria in the productions:

1. "Rinaldo" as Sirene by G.F. Handel (director: Jens-Daniel Herzog, musical director: Ingmar Beck)
2. "Melusina" as Meliora by C. Kreutzer (director: Gregor Horres, musical director: Claudio Novati)
3. “Die Fledermaus” as Ida by J. Strauss (director: Thomas Enzinger, musical director: Marc Reibel)