Since her spectacular role debuts as Rusalka next to Piotr Beczala and as Rachel in La Juive next to Neil Shicoff at the Vienna State Opera in 2014/15, the 'magnificent voice' (Die Presse) Olga Bezsmertna has established herself as one of today’s most impressive singers. In 2024 she was awarded the prestigious Franco Abbiati Prize, the annual award of the Association of Italian Music Critics, in the category 'Best Female Singer'.
In 2024/25, she returned to La Scala as Freia (Das Rheingold) and Ortlinde (Die Walküre) under Simone Young. There and at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, she will sing Sifare (Mitridate) under Christophe Rousset. She will perform Strauss’ Four Last Songs with the Czech Radio Symphony Prague, Mahler’s 4th Symphony in Katowice and Verdi’s Messa da Requiem with the Slovak Radio Symphony Bratislava. She welcomed the New Year with gala concerts with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie under Pietari Inkinen.
2023/24, she performed e.g. the Countess (Le Nozze di Figaro) at La Scala, Desdemona (Otello) at the Bavarian State Opera Munich, Górecki's Symphony No. 3 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs' with the Silesian Philharmonic Katowice and Bruckner’s Te Deum with the Slovak State Philharmonic Košice and at the Festival Smetana's Litomyšl.
Further highlights include Emma Dante's new Rusalka and Diana in Cavalli's La Calisto in Milan, Ghita (Der Zwerg) at the George Enescu Festival, her Salzburg Festival debut as Marzelline (Fidelio) alongside Jonas Kaufmann and the Countess (Le Nozze di Figaro) at Semperoper Dresden, in Vienna, Munich, Hamburg and Moscow.
Olga Bezsmertna was in the ensemble at Vienna State Opera, where she has sung numerous important roles, including Fiordiligi (Cosí fan tutte), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Liù (Turandot), Mimí (La Bohème), Mélisande (Pélleas et Mélisande), Tatiana (Eugene Onegin), Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus), and Alice Ford (Falstaff).
She works with renowned conductors such as Franz Welser-Möst, Adam Fischer, Alain Altinoglu, James Conlon or Christian Thielemann and stage directors such as Marco Arturo Marelli, Claus Guth, Sven-Eric Bechtholf or Adrian Noble.
