Russian soprano singer Aida Garifullina was born in Kazan, capital of Tatarstan,
on September 30, 1987. With a first name predestined for opera, this daughter of
a choirmaster studied at the University of Nuremberg at the age of eighteen,
then at the Vienna Academy of Music, where she made her debut in Mozart's opera
Cosi fan tutte. After winning the 2010 Magomayev Singing Competition in Moscow,
she sang at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, before joining the Mariinsky
Theatre in St. Petersburg to work with conductor Valery Gergiev. Her Italian
opera repertoire has expanded to ...