IRINA RAZIN-KRAVCHENKO is an Ukrainian mezzo-soprano living and working in Berlin, Germany.
Despite the fact that Irina relocated just one year ago, she has already played Cherubino`s role from «Le nozze di Figaro» by W.A.Mozart with BERLIN OPERA ACADEMY, the roles of Hänsel (in german) from «Hänsel und Gretel» by E.Humperdinck and Lola from «Cavalleria rusticana» by P.Mascagni with BERLIN OPERA COLLABORATIVE. At this moment Irina is so excited to be a part of PASSAGGIO OPER GROUP and preparing her new role - Nicklauss from «Les contes d`Hoffmann» by J.Offenbach!
More information about show and tickets for premiere you can find HERE.
At the same time we are happy to announce two Irina's solo concerts with Russian romances of the XX century in June and November 2018 in Berlin. Don’t miss a chance to enjoy rare examples of Russian classics! FOLLOW UPDATES
As a concert and opera soloist Irina started to work even during her studying at the Kiev National University of Culture and Arts in Kiev (Ukraine).
She worked in the famous chamber choir “Kiev”, Kiev Operetta theatre, and was preparing a lot of solo concerts. In 2013 Irina made her debuted in the role of Diva in Ukrainian version of rock-opera «Mozart». Afterwards she was playing the role of Rita Osyanina in the opera «The downs are quite» by K.Molchanov, the owner of a tavern in musical drama «Crying of guitar» and Hänsel in «Hänsel und Gretel» by E.Humperdinck.
At the same time Irina was studying in the theater school “Splash” as an actress, took part at different competitions and got special diploma for Verdi interpretation in «Academia Belcanto» (Graz, Austria, 2016), the first prizes at: vocal competition “Victoria fest” (Kiev, Ukraine, 2015), “Renaissance”, (Gyumri, Armenia, 2016), "XXI Century Art” (Klaipeda, Lithuania, 2016) and others. After one of such successful performance Irina was invited to the role of Kylyna in the premiere of Ukrainian opera «The forest song» by M.Volynskii during the fest «Opera in miniature» in Kamianets-Podilskyi (Ukraine, 2016), and a solo concert afterwards.
It`s worth noting a participation as a soloist in “Stabat Mater” by G.Pergolesi, which was staged as a ballet by Denis Matvienko with participation of the “The Great Gatsby” show-ballet and “Kiev soloists” orchestra (“GogolFest - 2015”, Kiev, Ukraine).
During her vocal career Irina took part at many master-courses with so famous vocalists and conductors as: Teresa Berganza, Lorenzo Tazieri, Eteri Lamoris, Natela Nicoli, Claudio Cavina, Raffaele Pe, Maria Cristina Kiehr, Otar Nakashidze, Emanuele Servidio, Olena Lyutarevych, Arno Unterüberbacher, Stephania Dovgan, Mark Sampson and others.