Career
Foreign the marathon runner see Irina Bogachova Dmitry Shostakovich composed his cycle songs to poems of Marina Tsvetaeva for her. During her career Bogacheva has performed at the Mariinsky Theatre and elsewhere in the Soviet Union the key mezzo roles in the Russian repertoire: the countess in The Queen of Spades, Marfa in Khovanshchina, Lyubasha in The Tsar"s Bride, Marina in Boris Godunov as well as the title role in Carmen, Verdi"s Eboli (Don Carlo), Amneris (Aida), Azucena (Il trovatore) and many others Bogecheva performed overseas at the Opéra Bastille, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Louisiana Scala Milan, the Metropolitan Opera New New York