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Marina Domashenko was born in 1979 in Kemerovo, Russia. She studied piano and conducting at the Kemerovo School of Music, graduating with honors, before pursuing opera singing at the Yekaterinburg Conservatory. Her European opera debut came in 1998 at the Prague State Opera as Olga in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin.
Domashenko won first prize at the 32nd International Antonín Dvořák Singing Competition (1997) and first prize at the Concorso Internazionale per Giovani Cantanti d’Opera (1999), launching an international career that has taken her to the San Francisco Opera, Vienna State Opera, Metropolitan Opera, and Royal Opera House. She received a Diva Award from Opera Philadelphia (2002) and shared in a Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording (2006) for Verdi’s Falstaff under Sir Colin Davis.
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