We are excited to announce that Albina Shagimuratova, one of the leading singers of the renowned Saint Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre, will be joining us for the 2025 Spasskaya Tower International Military Music Festival. As a guest soloist she will appear on the cobblestones of Red Square between August 22 and 24. One of the world’s most acclaimed sopranos, Albina Shagimuratova will perform Franz Schubert’s ‘Ave Maria’ and a very popular Russian song ‘Oy, tsevetet Kalina’ (‘Oh, viburnum is blossoming’).
Albina Shagimuratova has already appeared on the stage of some of the most prestigious opera houses in the world, including the Metropolitan Opera, the Royal Opera House (Covent Garden), the Teatro alla Scala, the Wiener Staatsoper, the Bayerische Staatsoper, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, San Francisco Opera and the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia among other theatres. Her repertoire includes a plethora of roles in the world’s most acknowledged opera masterpieces, with Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor), the Contessa di Folleville in Il viaggio a Reims, Elvira in I puritani, Violetta Valéry in La traviata, just to name a few.
Albina Shagimuratova was born in Tashkent. Her wonderful music journey started in Kazan, where she first graduated from the Kazan Music College and then entered the Zhiganov Kazan State Conservatoire. Later she transferred to the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory. In 2008 she became an honorary graduate of the youth programme of Houston Grand Opera (USA), where she studied from 2006.
International acclaim came to the singer in 2007, when she won 1st prize and the Gold Medal at the International Tchaikovsky Competition. One year later came the singer’s debut at the Salzburg Festival as the Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte with the Wiener Philharmoniker under Riccardo Muti.
In 2019 she headed the jury of the International Glinka Competition of Vocalists and was involved in the work of the jury at the International Tchaikovsky Competition. In 2024 Albina Shagimuratova was appointed the artistic director of the International Glinka Competition of Vocalists, and once again headed the jury, with the contest taking place in Moscow Zaryadye Concert Hall.
In 2025, the Spasskaya Tower Festival overwhelming production will bring together over 1,500 of the world’s finest performers representing Russian and foreign military and law enforcement agencies, as well as artistic companies. The seventeenth run of the tattoo is dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Great Patriotic Victory, and once again will be enjoying the unwavering organizational and/or financial support of the Russian Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Culture, and Moscow Government Department of Culture.