Nadine Koutcher, Belarusian soprano, native of Minsk, studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory under Tamara Novichenko and was soon thereafter awarded both Grand Prix and Audience Prize at the Hertogenbosch International Competition.

In 2012 she joined the ensemble at the Perm State Opera, by invitation of Teodor Currentzis. In 2014 she made her South American debut at the Municipal de Santiago, Chile, as Elvira in I Puritani, conducted by José Miguel Pérez-Sierra and directed by Emilio Sagi. She has also been heard as Violetta in La Traviata at the Mikahilovsky Theatre in St. Petersburg and Doña Isabel in Peter Sellars’s production of Henry Purcell’s The Indian Queen (world premiere) at the Teatro Real de Madrid, under the baton of Teodor Currentzis.

The year 2023 marked her Italian debut as Marfa in The Tsar’s Bride, conducted by Valentin Uryupin, at Teatro Regio di Torino and her debut as Cecília in Il Guarany by Gomes at the Theatro Municipal de São Paulo, Brazil.

Nadine Koutcher came to international attention when she was awarded First Prize at the 2015 Cardiff Singer of the World Competition.

She made her debut at the Grand Theatre de Geneve in the autumn of 2015 as Mathilde in Guillaume Tell and subsequently debuted at the Berlin State Opera as Violetta in La traviata, conducted by Daniel Baremboim and directed by Dieter Dorn, and at the Theatre du Capitole in Toulouse as the Contessa Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro and Lucia di Lammermoor. In May of 2016 she made her London recital debut.

Recent seasons featured numerous role and house debuts: Mathilde in Guillaume Tell - Teatr Wielki, Warsaw; Olympia in Les contes d'Hoffmann - Opera Bastille, Paris; Amenaide in Tancredi and Contessa Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro - Teatro Municipal de Santiago, Chile; Violetta in La traviata - Theatro Municipal de São Paulo, Brazil.

Further performing experience to date includes: Beethoven's 9th Symphony at Concertgebouw in Amsterdam; Verdi's Requiem with the London Symphony Orchestra at Norwich Norfolk Festival; La traviata (Violetta), La Juive (Eudoxie), Un ballo in maschera (Oscar) at Mikhailovsky Theatre in St. Petersburg.

Recordings: CD Rameau's works for Sony Music with the MusicAeterna Orchestra conducted by Teodor Currentzis; CD “Les Noces” by Stravinsky for SONY with MusicAeterna conducted by Teodor Currentzis.

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