Having given birth to a daughter in November, Albina Shagimuratova returns to the concert stage on with a concert performance of Lucia di Lammermoor at the Mariinsky Theatre. Conducted by Valery Gergiev, the performance is given in memory of the late People’s Artist of the USSR, Galina Kovaleva, and also hears Vladislav Sulimsky as Enrico and Vladimir Feliauer as Raimondo.
Described by the New York Times as “baby faced and clarion voiced…a riveting Lucia, her flighty mad scene the stuff of nightmares,” Albina also sings Donizetti’s doomed heroine in New York for the first time later this season at the .