EvelinaDobračeva

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  • Soprano

About Evelina

Evelina Dobračeva studied at the Hanns Eisler Music College in Berlin, where she worked with Professor Julia Varady, Professor Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Professor Thomas Quasthoff.

Recent highlights include Olga in Rimsky-Korsakov's Maid of Pskov at Grange Park Opera, Britten's War Requiem with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and BBC Philharmonic, Strauss's Vier Letzte Lieder with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, her debut as Tosca at Cincinnati Opera, Amelia in Verdi's Un ballo in maschera, Verdi's Requiem with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Shostakovich's Symphony No. 14 under Mikhail Jurowski at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, and a concert performance of Götterdämmerung with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Vladimir Jurowski.

Her recordings include The Complete Rachmaninov Songs for Delphian Records with pianist Iain Burnside, the complete songs of Medtner, Britten's War Requiem, Dargomyzhsky's Rusalka, and the world premiere recording of Anton Rubinstein's Moses.

In the 2026/27 season, she performs Britten's War Requiem with the Vienna Philharmonic under Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla at the Musikverein.

Evelina is based in Berlin, Germany

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Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt.

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Season Highlights

Dec 2026
Musikverein, Vienna
Britten War Requiem

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  • Evelina Dobračeva sings Britten’s War Requiem (Dies Irae)
  • Evelina Dobračeva sings Britten’s War Requiem (Sanctus)
  • Evelina Dobračeva sings Shostakovich Symphony no. 14
    Credit: Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

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Selected Repertoire

Beethoven

Fidelio (Leonore)

Bizet

Carmen (Micaela)

Boito

Mefistofele (Margarita)

Dargomyzhki

Rusalka

Dvořák

Rusalka

Janáček

Katya Kabanova (Katya)   •   Jenůfa

Leoncavallo

Pagliacci (Nedda)

Mozart

Le Nozze di Figaro (Contessa)   •   Cosi fan tutte (Fiordiligi)   •   Don Giovanni (Donna Anna)   •   Idomeneo (Elettra)   •   La Clemenza di tito (Vitellia)   •   

Offenbach

Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Antonia)

Prokofiev

Semyon Kotko

Puccini

La Boheme (Mimi)   •   La Rondine (Magda)   •   Turandot (Liu)   •   Tosca   •   Gianni Schicchi (Lauretta)   •   

R. Strauss

Ariadne auf Naxos

Rachmaninov

Aleko

Shostakovich

Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk

Tchaikovsky

Eugene Onegin (Tatiana)   •   Iolanta   •   Queen of Spades (Liza)

Verdi

Attila (Odabella)   •   Falstaff (Alice Ford)   •   Simon Boccanegra (Amelia)   •   La traviata (Violetta)   •   Un Ballo in Maschera(Amelia)

Weber

Der Freischutz (Agathe)

Press

  • Iolanta (Tchaikovsky)

    Bratislava Music Festival
    Sep 2023

    • [translated from radio broadcast] the part of Iolanta was sung by Russian soprano Evelina Dobračeva with a tender, well shaped voice who moved from the lyrical to more dramatic passages without issues. Very impressive was her first aria 'Atchevo eta prezhde ne znala' but also the duet with her lover Vaudemont played by the Ukrainian tenor Dmytro Popov.

  • Glagolitic Mass (Janáček )

    Prague Sounds International Music Festival
    Sep 2022

    • [Translated] "soprano Evelina Dobračeva completed the feeling that (apart from the singers Beňačková and Hajóssyová) none else sings the Glagolitic Mass so beautifully. Each of them has its place in history. Each of them has the right to use the imaginary crown of this composition. The colour of Dobračeva's voice is exceptional. It is a mature voice, firm and at the same time soft - absolutely suitable for Janáček, I can completely hear it in Wagner and Mahler and in the veristos. The tone leads complete body, she knows exactly what she is doing and how to do it. I haven't experienced such a performance by a soprano in a long time. And in addition, it has a musicality in it that cannot be seen and heard!

  • Glagolitic Mass (Janáček )

    Barbican, London
    Mar 2022

    • The other one of the four soloists who gets a chance to shine, soprano Evelina Dobraceva, was a model of attentive devotion; and what a joy to see the players when not busy at work really enjoying their colleagues' work.

  • Ivan the Terrible (Rimsky-Korsakov)

    Grange Park Opera
    Jun 2021

    • As Olga, the Russian soprano Evelina Dobračeva, now resident in Germany, sang superbly, showing mildness and subservience to the Tsar and father of the Russian people, along with a devotion to her beloved rebel Tucha

  • Symphony no. 8 (Mahler)

    Atlanta Symphony Hall
    Nov 2019

    • The singing is demanding, especially for the soloists... but the guest artists gave superb performances. The women especially sounded dazzling both individually and combined in magnificent duets and trios.

  • Glagolithic Mass

    Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool

    • Soprano Evelina Dobračeva was the most impressive with significant contributions to the Gospo d i pomilu j (Kyrie) and Slava (Gloria) movements in particular

Discography