The young mezzosoprano Ilseyar Khayrullova was born in 1987 in Tatarstan in Russia. In 2006, she graduated from the Tatarstan Music College, and went on to study at the Rimski-Korsakow-Conservatoire in St. Petersburg, from which she graduated from in 2012. Ilseyar Khayrullova is a prize winner of the international competition Playing Slominsky 2012 in St. Petersburg. From 2010, Ilseyar Khayrullova was seen in different studio productions from the St. Petersburg Conservatoire, among others as Cherubino in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozarts Le nozze di Figaro, Clarisse in Sergei Prokofiews Die Liebe zu den drei Orangen, Olga in Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowskis Eugen Onegin and Martha in Tschaikowskis Iolanta. Further roles include Azucena in Giuseppe Verdis Il trovatore, Kontschakowna in Alexander Borodins Prinz Igor, Orfeo in Christoph Willibald Glucks Orfeo ed Euridice and Polina in Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowskis Pique Dame. Since the 2013/2014 season, Ilseyar Khayrullo is an ensemble member of the Vienna State Opera, where she made her debut as the third Elf in Rusalka and also sung Bersi, Specht/Hund (The cunning little Vixen), Wowkle, Enrichetta (Puritani), Magd (Elektra), Flora (La traviata). http://www.wiener-staatsoper.at/Content.Node/home/kuenstler/saengerinnen/Ilseyar_Khayrullova.en.php
