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Olga Borodina is a leading Mezzo-soprano , known for her roles in Russian Opera s at her home company, the Mariinsky Theatre , and for her international performing and recording career in a varied repertoire. Borodina made her debut in Samson And Delilah at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden with Placido Domingo . She performs frequently at the Metropolitan Opera and the San Francisco Opera and many other Opera House s in roles including La Cenerentola , Marguérite in La Damnation De Faust , Eboli in Don Carlos , Principessa in Adriana Lecouvreur , Carmen , and Marfa in Khovanshchina . Borodina is known for her "plush" voice. [http://arts.guardian.co.uk/proms2003/story/0,,1027481,00.html [http://www.classicstoday.com/Classics/ConcertReview_ASPFiles/ViewConcertReview.asp?Action=User&ID=388]

She has received recognition as a People´s Artist Of Russia in 2002, the first prize gold medal of the Rosa Ponselle Vocal Competition , and also won the Barcelona competition in 1989. {Link without Title}

Borodina is featured in many Russian opera recordings on Philips conducted by Valery Gergiev with the Mariinsky company. Her Russia n heritage is very important to her:

"I'm one of the mad people who need their roots. I take nourishment from my native land, my motherland. I want my children to study in Russia, because they are Russian. I think this is tremendously important. But life in St Petersburg is becoming tougher by the day and the Russian spirit, the spirituality that was part and parcel of Russian culture, is almost not there any more. {Link without Title}