Golovina Irina

About

Born in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova, Irina Golovina received piano, music history, and chamber music lessons from an early age. At 15, she moved to Buenos Aires, where she continued her musical studies at the National Conservatory. At 18, she settled in Rennes, France, where she obtained her DEM (Diploma of Musical Studies) in piano and chamber music. During this period, she began her vocal studies at the Conservatory of St. Brieuc, with Béatrice Cramoix, where she obtained her CFEM (Certificate of Musical Studies). Since 2011, she has performed in operas and concerts in Brittany, Normandy, and Paris, while continuing her studies with teachers such as Guillemette Laurence, Alain Buet, Amaya Domínguez, and Myriam de Aranjo. Between 2020 and 2021, Irina participated in masterclasses with Filippo Morace and Raúl Giménez at the "Rossini in Wildbad" festival in Germany and performed concerts within the festival. Her first role (Dido), invited by the company Scènes en Perspectives, was in the opera Dido and Aeneas, at the Théâtre National La Passerelle in Saint-Brieuc. Between 2015 and 2018, Irina performed the roles of Yvan in Christophe Belletante's contemporary opera Tristan and Isolde, Carmen in Bizet's opera, Anita in Bernstein's West Side Story, and the Witch in Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel. In April 2019, he joined the Lyric Workshop of Tourcoing, led by Jean-Claude Malgoire, where he played the role of Pulgarcito's mother in Louis Aubert's opera "La Forêt Bleue" and that of Zinnia in Emmanuel Chabrier's "L'Étoile".