The Russian mezzo-soprano Victoria Karkacheva, from Volgograd, completed her training in the Young Artists Programme of the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, where she also appeared in her first performances, and won, among other distinctions, First Prize and the Birgit Nilsson Prize at the Operalia Competition in 2021.

She celebrated her first international successes as Judith in Duke Bluebeard’s Castle in Lyon, as the Composer in Ariadne auf Naxos in Bologna, and as Olga in Eugene Onegin at the Liceu in Barcelona. In 2024 she made her debut as Charlotte in Werther at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, a role she also sang at La Scala in Milan.

From 2022 to 2024 she was a member of the ensemble of the Bavarian State Opera, to which she returned in the 2024/25 season in the title role of Fauré’s Pénélope. On the concert platform she appeared with the Berlin Philharmonic under Kirill Petrenko in Iolanta and sang Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis in San Sebastián as well as Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra.

In the 2025/26 season she makes her debut as Carmen at the Vienna State Opera and at the Paris Opéra, sings Venus in Tannhäuser at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, Nicklausse in Les Contes d’Hoffmann in Lyon, Marguerite in La Damnation de Faust at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, Charlotte at the Canadian Opera Company, Maddalena in Rigoletto at the Philharmonie de Paris with the orchestra Le Cercle de L’Harmonie, and Judith in a concert with the Gürzenich Orchestra in Cologne.

In August 2026 she will appear at the Salzburg Festival as Dorabella in Così fan tutte. In the near future she will make further debuts at the Metropolitan Opera and at the Teatro Real, continuing her ascent on the international stage.