Soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska was born in Kyiv, where she was a soloist with the National Opera of Ukraine for a few years. In 2010 she made her debut at the Deutsche Oper Berlin as Puccini’s Tosca. In 2012 she gave her first performance at the Metropolitan Opera in New York singing the title role of Aida, followed by Tosca, Santuzza (Cavalleria rusticana), Abigaille (Nabucco), and the title role of Turandot. She has performed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (Abigaille, Leonora in La forza del destino), Naples and Verona (title role of Aida), National Opera of Ukraine (Aida, Elisabeth de Valois in Don Carlos, Tosca, Abigaille, Norma), Bayerische Staatsoper (Lady Macbeth, Abigaille), La Scala (Leonora in Il trovatore), Rome and Barcelona (Tosca), Deutsche Oper Berlin (Tosca, Elisabeth de Valois, Abigaille, Leonora in La forza del destino), Vienna (Abigaille, Aida), Hamburg and Los Angeles Opera (Abigaille), Staatsoper Berlin (Leonora in Il trovatore, Tosca, Turandot), Barcelona (the title role of Manon Lescaut), Houston (Norma), Paris Opera (Tosca), Teatro Real, Salzburg Festival, Oper Frankfurt, George Enescu Festival in Bucharest, Teatro Municipal de Santiago, Palacio de las Artes Reina Sofía, Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, and in concert with the NDR Radiophilharmonie, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Munich Radio Orchestra, and Cleveland Orchestra.
