ABOUT VICTORIA
She is the recipient of the Maria Callas Award for young artists (awarded by UNESCO Greece), as well as the honorary award of the Grand Prix Maria Callas Competition.
RECENT
In the 2024/25 season, Victoria Khoroshunova returns to the Prague State Opera as Mescalina and Santuzza, and makes her debut as Goneril in the new production of Reimann's Lear, directed by Barbora Horáková-Joly. She also debuts with the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra in Ankara in Brahms' Requiem and with the Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra in an opera gala concert.
In the 2023/24 season, Victoria performed Mescalina in Le Grand Macabre at the Prague State Opera and Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana at Teatro Goldoni in Livorno, Teatro Chiabrera in Savona, and the Prague State Opera. She also made her role debut as Helen of Troy in Boito's Mefistofele at the Prague State Opera and debuted with the Slovak Sinfonietta. She has worked with conductors such as Andriy Yurkevych, Jiří Rožeň, Gabriel Feltz, and Mario Menicagli.
In June 2022, she made a critically acclaimed debut at the Prague State Opera in the roles of three characters (Woman, Donna Anna, and Nun) in Erwin Schulhoff's Flammen, directed by Calixto Bieito. She also performed this role at the Janáček Brno Festival in November 2022. The production was nominated for the prestigious International Opera Awards 2022.
In August 2022, she was covering for Sonia Ganassi in the role of Santuzza in Teatro Goldoni's production of Cavalleria rusticana at the Mascagni Festival Livorno with the Orchestra della Toscana.
PAST
Her further career’s highlights include the role of Nedda (Pagliacci) at the Aegean Music Festival, Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte) as part of the Greek National Opera’s Opera Studio, Bruckner Requiem at the Olympia Municipal Music Theatre Maria Callas in Athens and recitals around Europe.
COMPETITIONS & MASTERCLASSES & BEGINNINGS
She has been awarded with the Unesco Greece Maria Callas Award for young artists, as well as the honorary award of the Grand Prix Maria Callas Competition. She won the 1st prize at the Luciano Neroni International singing competition and the 2nd prize (1st not awarded) at the Giorgio Merighi International Singing Competition.
Born in Odessa, Ukraine, she studied at the Odessa National Academy of Music and graduated with distinction from the Athens Conservatory of Music. Victoria studied with Hara Savino, Renata Scotto and Cesare Scarton (Santa Cecilia Opera Studio Rome), Susan Bullock (Musical Odyssey Nafplio), Daphne Evangelatos (Summer Academy Mozarteum Salzburg).
