Ksenia Popova

🪄🧚🌕 Midsummer Night’s Dream with Seattle Symphony and a chance to share the stage with @rghiggins9 was quite the dream ❤️

🍦forgot to do a photo dump of my time with Amalia in She Loves Me at Renton Civic Theatre 🥰 Such a blast, and so fun diving back into musical theatre after way too many years 🍨

🌘April 16, 18 & 19 I make my Seattle Symphony debut along with my amazing partner Ryan Higgins (who would have thought we’d ever be onstage together?) and fantastic @sarahlarsenmezzo

✨TOMORROW✨ check out this amazing concert by @thesoundensemble #seattlemusic

We are so excited to perform “moments colores” by @fayechiao , featuring @kpsoprano “moments colorés” was commissioned by The Lunar Ensemble as part of a centennial celebration of Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire. Written for a Pierrot ensemble instrumentation, this work is a setting of four poems from Albert Giraud’s cycle Pierrot lunaire: Rondels bergamasques based on the commedia dell’arte figure of Pierrot. Each poem in this set draws on connotations from, imagery of, and associations with colors. The first song features black and green, and the last song, white. Whereas the black is the total absence of light, while white is its full spectrum. White is also the color traditionally associated with the character of Pierrot. The color white ties each poem together in color and character; thus each song was written around a short motif representing white. 1. The first song, Absinthe, draws on the dark colors of green and black, describing drunken images soaked in absinthe. The start of the piece describes “an immense sea of absinthe” and other drunken images elicited by the proverbial green fairy. Soon, benign images devolve into darker hallucinations; the music grows frenetic and the singer frantically recounts her boat being seized and pulled into the sea. The music returns to calms as she “disappears without complaint.” 2. L’Alphabet (The Alphabet Book) reflects nostalgia for a colorful, children’s alphabet book which become the character’s fondest memories of childhood. 3. Poussière Rose (A Fine dust of Rose) compares the goddess Phoebe to a white rose in the sky, and imagines the mythical character Cassandre fleeing on the ground, brushing against thyme and leaving rose-colored “dew drops.” This song asks the singer to perform sprechstimme, a style of singing approximating speech and recitation. 4. The last poem, Blancheurs Sacreés (A Sacred White), describes the color white, as found in nature, suggesting innocence lost and longed for. #songcycle #artsong #pierrotlunaire

We are so excited to work with Ksenia! The News Tribune hails soprano Ksenia Popova as “a soprano to watch.” She has appeared as Micaëla (Carmen), Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor) Juliette (Roméo et Juliette) and Josephine (H.M.S. Pinafore) with Tacoma Opera; Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) and Gretel (Hansel and Gretel) with Pacific Northwest Opera; Juliette ( Roméo et Juliette), Gilda (Rigoletto), and Adele (Die Fledermaus) with Vashon Opera; Gulnara (Il Corsaro) with Puget Sound Concert Opera; Josephine (H.M.S. Pinafore) with Opera Coeur d’Alene; and Madeleine (Silent Night) with Opera San José. Ms. Popova previously served as a Studio Artist with Tulsa Opera and as a Resident Artist with Opera San José. On the concert stage, she has appeared as soprano soloist in Carmina Burana with the Greater Seattle Choral Consortium and Sammamish Symphony Orchestra and in Messiah with the Icicle Creek Chamber Series. She has also collaborated with Seattle Opera’s Creation Lab and the PNW Kobzar Project. Beyond opera, she has performed Amalia in She Loves Me (Renton Civic Theatre), Pat Collins in Stephen Edwards’ Moon Landing, and with popera group Vivace. Ms. Popova is the Founder of Opera On Tap Seattle, a nonprofit dedicated to bringing opera to new audiences in unexpected venues. Upcoming engagements include soprano soloist with the Seattle Symphony and Parasha in Mavra with Puget Sound Concert Opera. #soprano #artsong #voice

Join us to celebrate 10 years of music making! Featuring incredible local soprano Ksenia Popova with music from Sarah Bassingthwaighte, Eldar Hudiyev, Faye Chiao and Daron Aric Hagen. We hope you can join us! @eldarhudiev @sarahbassingthwaighte @fayechiao @daronhagencomposer #livemusicseattle #orchestra #newmusic

❤️ Happy Valentines Day ❤️

Heard it was National Cat Day 😽 But around here, every day is National cat day for @lueythepooh

✨Happy World Opera Day✨ Opera is wild and beautiful, tragic and amazing, and I’m so happy to play a tiny part in it all. Let’s continue changing it for the better, no? #worldoperaday #verdi #operasingersofinstagram

Headshot update by the amazing 📸 @quinlancorbett !

One last camping trip before the rain 🍂