Since her breakthrough performances as Tchaikovsky’s Tatyana under Gennadi Rozhdestvensky in Nikolaus Lehnhoff’s production of Eugene Onegin in Baden Baden and Paris, the Slavonic repertoire and its heroines have become Orla Boylan’s international calling card.
Her committed and radiant interpretations of Janacek’s Jenufa and Katya Kabanova have been acclaimed at the Glyndebourne Festival under Jiri Kout and Markuz Stenz, at the Deutsche Oper, Berlin, at Oper Koln again under Stenz and at Opéra de Lyon under Lothar Koenigs and Staatsoper Hamburg. The more recent additions to her repertoire of Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta for Opera Holland Park and Lisa (Pique Dame) for Komische Oper have met with equal success.