Olesia Mamonenko 

At the age of six, Olesia started her piano studies at "Eduardas Balsys gymnasium of arts" in her hometown Klaipeda. In 2013 after receiving a Grant, she started studying opera performance at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater. In 2016, she studied in Italy for half a year at the Guido Cantelli Conservatoroire in Novara, under the Erasmus exchange program. At the same time she was awarded with a two years scholarship from her home town letting her to begen studying privately in Milan with prof. Anatoly Goussev. In an exceptional event although Olesia was a full-time student at Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater, due to her outstanding voice, she was permitted to continue studies abroad at the same time. She attended master classes with such famous opera singers as Jose Kaufmann, Renato Bruson, Daria Masiero, Francesco Meli, Fiorenza Cedolins, Dmitry Vdovin, Anna Pirozzi, Katerina Tretyakova and Elizabeth Vidal. The singer successfully obtained her degree of Master studies at the Arrigo Boito Conservatory in Parma of Italy, in class of Professor Rosi Orani and worked with her vocal coaches Elia Tagliavia, Vincenzo Scalera, Stefano Giannini, Saadat Ismailova, Raffaele Cortesi, Maria Laurila - Lili and privately with Prof. Paula Keller and Antonella D’Amico. From 2020 to 2021, The young soprano has taken part in the prestigious Opera Studio in the Theater Communal of Bologna, where she had numerous performances and in the same time got the opportunity to study with such excellent theachers and coaches as Luciana D’Intino, Amadeo Salvato, Alessandro Trebeschi and Giorgio D’Alonzo. Olesia is also a winner of numerous International competitions: in 2017, she won the role of Mimi for the opera “La Boheme” at the International Singers’ Competition in Milan. She debuted with this role only 24 years of age and in the following years, she performs this role many times in different theaters in Italy. In 2018- 2019 she became the finalist of the most famous International Singers’ Competition in Spoleto, Italy, and the same year she won the Grand Prix of the “Giuditta Pasta” International Singers' Competition and First place of the 4th International Competition “Romanceade” in Hamburg. In 2018 and 2019 Olesia participated in the most significant and most prominent “ VerdiOff ” Festival in Parma. Also, as the part of the participation at the festival, she presented the opera “Attila” at Teatro Regio in Parma. She also made her debut at the Opera Studio in Campobasso as Donna Elvira in opera “Don Giovanni”, conducted by Gennaro Continillo. At the Teatro Carbonetti in Broni, she performed excerpts from “Madame Butterfly” with an orchestra. In 2019, she impressed the audience in Milan with Silva’s role from the operetta “Die Csardasfürstin” and Fiordiligi’s role from the opera “Cosi fan tutte” with conductor Fabio Biondi e Marco Beretta. In 2021, she made her debut in the newest opera “Dante’’ written by the composer Mauro Fabbri. In 2022 she performed again the role of Mimi at the opening of the ''Maria Callas Academy '' in Zevio with conductor Gaetano Soliman and at the same year Olesia debut with Santuzza's role from the opera ''Cavalleria Rusticana'' in the ''Festival Innamorarse della musica'' with conductor Andrea Fuoli.Olesia constantly gives concerts in the prestigious halls of Italy and abroad. In 2019 she performed in the Tschaikowsky Concert Hall in Hamburg and was invited to participate in the most famous International Festival “Sugrįžimai“ in Lithuania. In 2020 the artist performed two recitals at the most important concert hall of Lithuania “Lithuanian National Philharmonic and Kaunas National Philharmonic”. Since 2022, Singer collaborate with Opera Theather of Nice, France, and her voice already pleases not only the Italian audience, but also the French.