Svet­la­na
Mam­re­sheva

Ba­sed in Ber­lin, Svet­la­na Mam­re­sheva is a sop­ra­no, act­ress, and ac­ting & vo­cal co­ach. 

Svet­la­na was born in Nart­ka­la, Ka­bar­di­no-Bal­ka­ria, in the North Ca­uca­sus, and has Cir­cassi­an ro­ots. She gra­du­ated from the Mos­cow Art The­at­re Scho­ol, whe­re she stu­di­ed in Ki­rill Se­reb­renni­kov’s ac­ting class. Af­ter gra­du­ation, she be­came a mem­ber of the Se­venth Stu­dio and la­ter jo­ined Mos­cow’s re­now­ned Go­gol Cen­ter The­at­re.

As an act­ress, she per­formed in dra­matic, mu­sical, and in­terdis­cipli­nary pro­duc­ti­ons, col­la­bora­ting with le­ading the­at­res inc­lu­ding the Mos­cow Art The­at­re, the Go­gol Cen­ter, and the Sta­nis­lavs­ky Elect­rot­he­at­re.

Af­ter mo­ving to Ger­ma­ny, Svet­la­na con­ti­nu­ed her ar­tistic ca­re­er as an ope­ra sin­ger. She comp­le­ted a Mas­ter’s deg­ree in Ope­ra (Li­ed, Ora­torio and Con­cert) at the Ber­lin Uni­ver­si­ty of the Arts (UdK Ber­lin), whe­re she stu­di­ed with Pro­fes­sor De­borah York.

Her re­per­to­ire ran­ges from Ba­roque mu­sic to con­tempo­rary ope­ra and ex­pe­rimen­tal mu­sic the­at­re. Re­cent en­ga­gements inc­lu­de col­la­bora­ti­ons with the Ham­burg Sta­te Ope­ra, Düssel­dorfer Scha­us­pi­el­ha­us, Tha­lia The­at­re (Ham­burg), Rund­funk-Sin­fo­ni­eorc­hes­ter Ber­lin, Ruhr­tri­en­na­le, Tanz­fab­rik Ber­lin, and the Cir­cassi­an Ba­roque en­semb­le Jrpjej.

Thro­ug­ho­ut her ca­re­er, she has col­la­bora­ted with in­terna­ti­onal­ly acc­la­imed di­rec­tors, con­ductors, com­po­sers, pi­anists, cho­re­og­raphers, and vo­cal co­ac­hes, inc­lu­ding Ki­rill Se­reb­renni­kov, De­borah York, Vla­dimir Ju­rows­ki, Phi­lipp Chiz­hevs­ky, Ivan Ve­lika­nov, Ma­xim Di­den­ko, Ev­ge­ny Ku­lagin, Ivan Es­tegne­ev, Ser­gej News­ki, Ale­xan­der Ma­nots­kov, Le­on Gur­vitch, Erik Schne­ider, Sa­rah Tys­man, Axel Ba­uni, Ma­ria Mo­toly­gina and Na­dine Ko­utc­her.

In ad­di­ti­on to her sta­ge ca­re­er, Svet­la­na has ap­pe­ared in film and te­levi­si­on and has re­ce­ived awards and re­cog­ni­ti­on for her work in the­at­re and on scre­en.