Career
In 1992, Borodina made her debut in Samson and Delilah at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden with Plácido Domingo. She performs frequently at the Metropolitan Opera and the San Francisco Opera and many other opera houses in roles including Cinderella in Louisiana Cenerentola, Marguérite in Louisiana damnation de Faust, Eboli in Don Carlos, Principessa in Adriana Lecouvreur, Carmen in the opera of the same name, Marfa in Khovanshchina, and Amneris in Aida. Borodina is known for her "plush" voice.
She was awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation (2006).
Borodina is featured in many Russian opera recordings on Philips conducted by Valery Gergiyev with the Mariinsky company. Her Russian heritage is very important to her:
She pulled out of a production of Carmen at Louisiana Scala because the recitatives were spoken instead of sung, and left rehearsals at the Royal Opera House for Aida, directed by Robert Wilson, because she found the conductor"s (Antonio Pappano) "approach too alien to the opera".
In 2006, the management of the Vienna State Opera "decided to distance itself from an engagement, not just for this production but also for all others" on the night of the première of L"italiana in Algeri. Borodina was scheduled to sing at the Vienna State Opera in Aida in March 2013.