Inna Dukach - Soprano

Biography

Born in Moscow and raised in New York, soprano Inna Dukach recently made her Covent Garden debut as Musetta in La Bohème. MusicOMH wrote of her performance there, "It was, however, Inna Dukach's portrayal of Musetta that stole the show. She earned mid-aria applause with a spell binding pianissimo in act 2, and even managed to inject some humanity into the usually shallow man-eater." Further recent performances of note include the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro for Hawaii Opera Theatre; Walter in La Wally with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam; Pamina in Die Zauberflöte for Opera Hong Kong; Liù in Turandot for the Savonlinna Opera Festival; Tatiana in Eugene Onegin with Opéra Lyra Ottawa; and Violetta in La Traviata with Zagreb Opera in Croatia. Upcoming engagements include Vier Letzte Lieder with the Reading Symphony; Mimì in La Bohème in concert with the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra; Marguerite in Faust for New Jersey Opera; and Violetta in La Traviata with Toledo Opera.

Additional previous engagements for Ms. Dukach include a highly acclaimed Mimì in La Bohème at New York City Opera, a reprisal of her house debut there the previous year. She also has performed Donna Anna in Don Giovanni with both Orlando Opera and with Opera Carolina; Xenia in Boris Godunov for San Diego Opera; Mimì with Lake George Opera, Sarasota Opera, Dicapo Opera and National Lyric Opera; Caroline Gaines in Margaret Garner with Opera Carolina; Dorotea in Conte's Don Chisciotte with the Caramoor Festival; and Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream with Opera North. She made her Alice Tully Hall debut with the American Symphony Orchestra as Aljeja in Janáček's From the House of the Dead, and her Carnegie Hall debut in a program of Rutter's Magnificat and Vaughan Williams' Dona Nobis Pacem. Other concert highlights have included a concert of Gluck arias with Opera de Oviedo in Spain; Strauss' Vier Letzte Lieder with Theater Pforzheim in Germany; Songs of Yiddish Poetry with the Brooklyn Philharmonic; the Verdi Requiem with the Brooklyn Philharmonic; the Brahms Requiem with the Greenwich Choral Society; the Mozart Requiem with the Saratoga Choral Festival; Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Smith College Orchestra at Carnegie Hall; and Barber's Knoxville: Summer Of 1915 with Bay Shore Lyric Opera.

Inna Dukach was a winner of the 2005 Liederkranz Competition, a winner of the 2004 Dutka Arts Foundation Competition, and a New England regional finalist of the 2003 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. She received her Master's Degree in Vocal Performance from Mannes College of Music, and her Bachelor's Degree from Smith College.