Ekaterina Gubanova was born in Moscow and began her musical studies as a pianist and choral conductor, she went on to study opera singing at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory and the Sibelius Academy (Helsinki) and was a member of the Young Artists Program at the Royal Opera House in London. She has established herself as one of the leading mezzo-sopranos of her generation and is a regular guest at the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala in Milan, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Bavarian State Opera, the Vienna State Opera, the Berlin State Opera, the Lyric Opera Chicago, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Bolshoi Theatre, the Mariinsky Theatre and the Gran Teatro del Liceu in Barcelona. She works regularly with renowned conductors and orchestras and performs at many important festivals worldwide. In 2005, she sang Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde at the Opéra National de Paris with outstanding success. Since then, she has taken on the role in Baden-Baden, Rotterdam, Paris, New York, Berlin, Tokyo, Salzburg, St. Petersburg, Munich and Buenos Aires, working with conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Valery Gergiev, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Semion Bychkov, Sir Simon Rattle, Zubin Mehta, Myung-Whun Chung and Kent Nagano. She also became known for her interpretation of Fricka in Das Rheingold and Die Walküre, which she performed with Daniel Barenboim at the Berlin State Opera and Teatro alla Scala and with Kirill Petrenko at the Bavarian State Opera and recorded with Valery Gergiev for the Mariinsky label. Important roles in her operatic repertoire include Eboli, Amneris, Adalgisa, Giovanna Seymour, Marina Mniszech, Lyubasha, Marguerite (Damnation du Faust), to name a few. The artist is known for her interpretation of the Verdi Requiem, which she has sung several times, including under Riccardo Muti, Daniel Barenboim, Zubin Mehta and Valery Gergiev. Her concert repertoire includes Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde, Des Knaben Wunderhorn, the Rückert Lieder, the Second and Third Symphonies, French and Russian music. Role debuts of the 2020/2021 season: Ortrud (Lohengrin) at the Staatsoper Berlin could only be streamed. Clairon in Capriccio at the Opéra de Paris and Santuzza (Cavalleria Rusticana) at La Scala were cancelled due to Covid. She had great success as Venus in Tannhäuser at the 2021 Bayreuth Festival. Highlights of the 2021/22 season include appearances in Oedipe by Enescu as the season opener at Opera Bastille Paris, at the Vienna State Opera in Don Carlos and as Brangäne in a new production of Tristan und Isolde, and as Amneris at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples.