Soprano, graduated from the Music Teacher Training College in Bălți, Moldova. For 12 years she was a soloist of the Minstrels Variety Theatre of the Bălți Municipal Cultural Centre. She is a prize-winner of numerous national and international competitions of popular music.
Currently the singer is a fifth-year student at the Musical Theatre Department of the Russian University of Dramatic Art (GITIS) (People’s Artist of Russia, Prof. Pustova’s class).
Irina joined the Novaya Opera in 2011.

Awards and Honors
*Prize-winner at the “Voice Vocal Academy” nomination of the Festos Festival of Students’ Art in Moscow (2008)
*Prize-winner of the Musica Classica International Festival and Competition (1st Prize, Ruza, 2010)
*Prize-winner of the 24th Glinka International Vocal Competition (2d Prize, Moscow, 2011)

Roles performed at the Novaya Opera
Lauretta, Gherardina in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi Gianni Schicchi
Rosina in Rossini’s Il barbiere di SivigliaIl barbiere di Siviglia
First Lady in Mozart’s Die Zauberflote Die
Belinda Brien, Belinda in Michael Nyman and Henry Purcell’s Dido
Juliette in Gounod’s Romeo et JulietteRomeo et Juliette
M. du Parc in Martynov’s t Wives The School for Wives
Susanna in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro