Nadine Koutcher was born in Minsk. In 2003 she graduated from Minsk State Musical College, the Department of Musical Theory. Also in 2007 she had opera debut in the Opera and Ballet Theatre of St. Petersburg Conservatory, she sang Marfa in the opera The Tsar’s Bride by Rimsky-Korsakov. In 2011 she graduated from the Saint Petersburg Conservatory with a Vocalist Diploma (the class of a Distinguished Artist, professor Tamara Novichenko, and the chamber class of Kira Izotova). In August 2011 she won the 1st Prize in Mikhailov’s Young Opera Singers’ Contest (Cheboksary, Russia).
Among her recent engagements is her Italian debut with role of Marfa in The Tsar’s Bride by Rimsky-Korsakov (with Valentin Uryupin conducted) in Teatro Regio di Torino in 2023, and her role of Cecília (Ceci) in Il Guarany, by Carlos Gomes, at the Theatro Municipal de São Paulo, Brazil.
In 2012 Nadine Koutcher won the International Vocal Competition ‘s-Hertogenbosch, and in 2015 she became the main Prize winner in the competition Cardiff Singer of the World.
In 2015 Nadine sang the role of Violetta in a new production of La Traviata staged by Dieter Dorn at the Berlin State Opera conducted by Daniel Barenboim. From 2016 untill 2019 she made her wonderful debuts at several European opera houses like Warsaw Teatr Wielki – Mathilde in Rossini’s Guillaume Tell, Teatre Capitole de Toulouse – Contessa Almaviva in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro and Lucia in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Opera de Paris (Bastille) – Olympia in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Teatro Municipal Santiago Chile – Amenaide in Rossini’s Tancredi also as Contessa Almaviva, Teatro Municipal de Sao-Paulo – Violetta in Verdi’s La Traviata, etc.
In 2014 Nadine has debuted in Bellini’s I Puritani (Elvira) at the Teatro Municipal de Santiago de Chile (with the conductor José Miguel Pérez-Sierra and the director Emilio Sagi).
In 2013, on the stage of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Nadine sang soprano in the 9th Symphony of Beethoven (conductor Conrad van Alphen), soprano in Verdi’s Requiem with the London Symphony Orchestra and David Perry during Norwich Norfolk Festival. Also in 2013, Nadine took part in staging the world premiere of Henry Purcell’s opera The Indian Queen in the new edition of one of the most popular directors – Peter Sellars – joint co-production of the Perm Opera and Madrid’s Teatro Real, conducted by Teodor Currentzis. And she debuted at the Teatro Real in the role of Dona Isabel in the same year. For this role Nadine also received the Golden Mask (The Best Female performance of a Year) in Moscow in 2015.
In 2012 she was invited by Teodor Currentzis to the ensemble of soloists of The Perm State P.I. Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Theatre. In May 2012 she took part in the International Diaghilev Festival and was given the role of Medea in the Russian premiere of Pascal Dusapin’s opera Medea Material. For this role, she was awarded the Golden Mask (The Best Female performance of a Year) in Moscow in April 2013.
In 2012 she recorded a CD with the Music Aeterna Orchestra conducting by Currentzis, they performed Rameau’s works for Sony Music.
In 2009 she started performing in The Mikhailovsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, her debut role was Violetta in Verdi’s La Traviata. In the same theatre she performed other roles for lyrical and coloratura soprano, such as Princess Eudoxie in Halevy’s La Juive, Oscar in Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera.
