Since 2012 Margarita Gritskova has been a member of the ensemble of the Vienna State Opera, where she quickly advanced to the public favourite.

There she has sung all the major roles for in the Mozart and Rossini repertoire ranging from CHERUBINO, IDAMANTE, ANNIO, SESTO, DORABELLA, BRADAMANTE, ROSINA, ANGELINA, ISABELLA, as well as OLGA (“Eugen Onegin”), to name only a few.

Guest engagements took her to the Salzburg Festival, the Opéra de Quebeck, the Rossini Festival Pesaro, the Bavarian State Opera Munich, the Moscow Bolshoi Theatre, Hamburg State Theatre, to Zürich, Berlin, Oslo, Valencia…

In 2018 she sang her first Carmen in Vienna, with Piotr Beczala as Don José.

Margarita Gritskova represented the Vienna State Opera also on tours. She sang CHERUBINO at guest performances of the Vienna State Opera in Japan under Riccardo Muti and in Aix-en- Provence under Alain Altinoglu.

Since the 2021/22 season she works as a freelance, exploring a new repertory with roles like AMNERIS in Aida,  PREZIOSILLA in La forza del destino, EBOLI in Don Carlo, ADALGISA in Norma, JOHANNA SEYMOUR in Anna Bolena” in houses like the Finnish National Opera Helsinki, Klosterneuburg Festival,  Weimar National Theatre or the State Theatre  am Gärtnerplatz in Munich.

Born in Sankt Petersburg, the artist studied piano and singing in her hometown and graduated 2010 at the State Academy of Music in the class of Irina Bogatschewa. Here she sang her first CARMEN under the baton of Mariss Jansons.

CD’s with works by Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Shostakowich were also published by Naxos.