Ukrainian soprano Olga Kulchynska's "palpable warmth and sensitivity" (The New York Times) and "voluptuous singing line and rich timbre" (Le Monde) have earned her a wide repertoire spanning Handel to Poulenc at the world's leading opera houses, including Opernhaus Zürich, Opéra national de Paris, and the Gran Teatre del Liceu.
The 2026/27 season brings several eagerly anticipated debuts. She opens with a new production of Le nozze di Figaro at the Teatro Real de Madrid, then returns to the Wiener Staatsoper in December for performances as Leila in Les Pêcheurs de Perles. January sees her take on Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni for the first time, followed in spring by her debut as Maria in a new production of Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa at the Bayerische Staatsoper. She closes the season at the Opéra national de Paris as Norina in Don Pasquale.
Recent seasons have been equally rich in milestones. Highlights include her debut as Tatiana in Eugene Onegin at the Santa Fe Opera, Contessa in a new production of Le nozze di Figaro at the Dutch National Opera, and Marguerite in Gounod's Faust at both the Wiener Staatsoper and the Bayerische Staatsoper. Further standout performances include Cleopatra in Handel's Giulio Cesare in Egitto at the Salzburger Festspiele, Natasha in Prokofiev's War and Peace and Ilia in Idomeneo at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Blanche de la Force in Dialogues des Carmélites at the Wiener Staatsoper and Opernhaus Zürich, Mathilde in Wilhelm Tell at Opéra de Lausanne, Mimi in La Bohème at the Royal Opera House and Opernhaus Zürich, Ginevra in Ariodante and Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia at Opéra de Paris, Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro at the Metropolitan Opera, the Bolshoi Theater, and the Bayerische Staatsoper, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte at the Staatsoper Hamburg and Bayerische Staatsoper, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte at Opernhaus Zürich and the Castell de Peralada Festival, Musetta in La bohème at Opera di Roma, the Dutch National Opera, and the Met, Liù in Turandot at the Met, Tsarevna the Swan-Bird in The Tale of Tsar Saltan at La Monnaie in Brussels, Gänsemagd in Humperdinck's Königskinder at the Dutch National Opera, Juliette in Roméo et Juliette at Opéra de Rouen, Giulietta in I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Adina in L'elisir d'amore, and Zerlina in Don Giovanni at Opernhaus Zürich, Volkhova in Sadko, Marfa in The Tsar's Bride, Corinna in Rossini's Il viaggio a Reims, Gilda in Rigoletto at the Bolshoi Theater, 7 Deaths of Maria Callas directed by Marina Abramović at Royal Theatre Carré, and Micaëla in Carmen at the Arena di Verona, the Royal Opera House, and the Wiener Staatsoper.
On the concert stage, Kulchynska has performed Rachmaninoff's The Bells in Utrecht, at the Edinburgh Festival, and in Amsterdam under Karina Canellakis, Rossini's Stabat Mater at Cankarjev Dom in Ljubljana, the title role of Iolanta in concert with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra at Lighthouse Poole, and Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra under Keri-Lynn Wilson — at the Polish National Opera in Warsaw and at the Schlossgarten Schönhausen in Berlin. That performance was recorded live for Deutsche Grammophon.
Kulchynska studied music theory at the R. Glier Kyiv Institute of Music before completing her vocal training at the Pyotr Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine, and is a graduate of the Young Artist Program at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. A first-prize winner at the Viñas Competition, she has also received awards at the Operalia Competition, the Bul-Bul International Vocal Competition in Baku, and the Mykola Lysenko International Music Competition in Kyiv. She is active on Instagram, Facebook, X, and TikTok.
