Born in Moscow, Ms. Khudoley graduated from the Russian Academy of Performing Arts, as an actor and solo vocalist. Ms. Khudoley was the diploma winner of numerous different International vocal competitions. In 1998, Ms. Khudoley received the stipendium from the Wagner International Society in Bayreuth.  Also in 1998, Ms. Khudoley made her Mariinsky Theatre stage debut in the title role of Salome and as Senta “Der fliegende Holländer.”

Ms. Khudoley has toured with the Mariinsky Company in, Metropolitan Opera, Carnegie Hall, Covent Garden, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, New Israeli Opera, Kennedy Center (Washington DC), Festspeilhaus Baden-Baden, the Cardiff Millennium Center, Bolshoi Theatre, Concertgebow, and others.

Ms. Khudoley has performed Lisa Pique Dame at Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Senta Der fliegende Hollander with Los Angeles Opera, Oper Leipzig, Latvian National Opera, Teatro Massimo (Palermo), and Elisabeth Tannhäuser at Tokyo Opera Nomori ( conducted by Maestro Seigi Ozawa; directed by Robert Carsen). Ms. Khudoley has performed the title role of Salome with Dallas Opera, Gulbenkian Center (Lisbon, Portugal), Latvian National Opera, Lithuanian National Orchestra and Vancouver Opera.  In the future, she will sing Salome with Minnesota Opera and Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto (Japan). 

Ms. Khudoley has been honored to perform with Valery Gergiev, Seigi Ozawa, Heinz Fricke, Lawrence Foster, Yuri Temirkanov, Symon Bychkov, Antonello Allemandi, Gianadrea Noseda, Pavel Kogan, Alexander Rudin, Gabriele Ferro, Marco Boemi, and many others.

Ms. Khudoley shares the stage with Maestro Placido Domingo, Larissa Diadkova, Anna Netrebko, Elena Garanca, Vladimir Galouzine, Matti Salminen, Bernd Weikl, Kurt Rydl, Linda Watson, Michelle DeYoung, Bryn Terfel, Stephen Gould, Judith Forst, Vassily Gerello, Gerald Finely, Andrea Silverstrelli, Mark Rucker, Wolfgang Brendel, Yvgeny Nikitin, and many others.

Ms. Khudoley has been honored to work with the following stage directors: Robert Carsen, Jonathan Kent, Francesca Zambello, Julia Pevzner, David Freeman, Peter Konwitschny, Gottfried Pilz, Dmitri Bertman, Dmitiri Chernikov, Yuri Aleksandorff, Linda Nume, Arnaud Bernard, and many others.

“Singer of the Year Award” St. Petersburg Theatrical Society, for the role of Sieglinde, performed with Maestro Placido Domingo, 2001.

Recently, Ms. Khudoley sang Salome’s monologue at the Gala opening of the Opernhaus Graz season 2009-2010.  This performance was telecast on Austrian television.

In the Fall 2009, Ms. Khudoley debuted the roles Kaiserin Frau ohne Schatten a new and Cassandra Les Troyens, both new productions at the Mariinsky Theatre. Ms. Khudoley also during the fall of 2009 performed with the Mariinsky Theatre: Aida Aida, Lisa Pique Dame, Renata Fiery Angel, and a special concert performance of Die Walküre at the Cardiff Millennium Centre, starring Bryn Terfel (Wotan) and conducted by Maestro Gergiev.

On January 3, 2010, Ms. Khudoley recorded the Stravinsky ballet “Les Noces” with Maestro Valery Gergiev for future release on the Mariinsky recording label.

January 2010, Ms. Khudoley will sing Abigaille Nabucco with Teatr Wielki (Warsaw). In February, Ms. Khudoley will sing Aida Aida at the 28^th Annual Shalyapin International Opera Festival in Kazan, Russia.

In April 2010, Ms. Khudoley returns to Minnesota Opera performing the title role of Salome.  Later in 2010, she will make her debut with Kentucky Opera as Santuzza Cavalleria Rusticana and Nedda I Pagliacci.  In 2011, Ms. Khudoley will debut the role of Katerina “Lady McBeth at Mtsensk” with Opernhaus Graz and Komische Oper Berlin.

Operatic Repertoire
(All works have been prepared and performed with professional opera companies. All works have been performed in the original language, unless otherwise noted.)

Concert Repertoire

(All works are the soprano solo part.)

Mahler’s Symphony No. 8

Stravinsky  Les Noces

Rimsky-Korskov  Mlada

Beethoven’s 9^th Symphony

Orff  Carmina Burana

Verdi Requiem

Recordings

Andrei Golovin - “Eight Poems by Count Vasily Komarovsky for
Soprano and Orchestra” (Melodija 2007)

Broadcast recording of “Tannhäuser”,
production Robert Carsen (NHK Tokyo Television 2007)

Netherlands Radio Orchestra- “Mlada” by Rimsky-Korsakov,
conducted by Maestro Valery Gergiev (Concertgebow 2005)