Olga Peretyatko, born in St Petersburg, studied singing at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin and subsequently was a member of the Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera. In 2007 she achieved her international breakthrough as a prizewinner at Plácido Domingo’s Operalia Competition. Since then she has appeared, among others, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Royal Opera House in London, La Scala in Milan, the state operas in Vienna and Berlin, Teatro Real Madrid, Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, as well as at the Opéra Bastille and at the festivals in Salzburg, Baden-Baden, Aix-en-Provence and Pesaro. Her repertoire includes, among others, Violetta ("La traviata"), Gilda ("Rigoletto"), Leonora ("Il trovatore"), Donna Anna ("Don Giovanni"), Norina ("Don Pasquale"), Anna Bolena, Norma, as well as Marguerite ("Faust"), Liù ("Turandot") and Leïla in Bizet’s "Les pêcheurs de perles". At Zurich Opera House she has appeared, among others, as Fiorilla in "Il turco in Italia" and in the current season as Giulia in "La scala di seta". Most recently she sang Magda de Civry in a new production of "La rondine" at the Teatro Regio in Turin and Donna Anna in a new production of "Don Giovanni" in Bologna. In 2018 she gave her first solo recital at La Scala in Milan. For her six albums on Sony Classical she has received multiple awards, and in 2025 she was honoured with the European Cultural Award for her outstanding artistic achievements.