Yulia Zamyatina is a Russian opera singer, soprano, and teacher. She was born on January 17, 1969, in Sortavala.
She studied choral conducting and academic singing at the Petrozavodsk Music College named after K. E. Rautio, where Z. I. Larkina taught her. She continued her studies at the Leningrad State Conservatory named after Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov with Galina Kovaleva, then completed a traineeship at the Moscow State Conservatory named after Pyotr Tchaikovsky with Irina Arkhipova.
Zamyatina was a soloist at the Bolshoi Theatre for several years. Her roles there included Antonida in Glinka’s Ivan Susanin, Marfa in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride, Iolanta in Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta, Francesca in Rachmaninoff’s Francesca da Rimini, Anna in Verdi’s Nabucco, and Zemfira in Rachmaninoff’s Aleko. She has toured in France, Poland, Italy, the Czech Republic, the United States, Austria, and Finland.
Since 2003, she has taught solo singing at the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music and has led master classes in Russia and abroad. Her awards include first prize at the Mikhail Glinka International Vocal Competition, the Stanisław Moniuszko International Vocal Competition, and the First St. Petersburg Television Competition “Revival of Russian Bel Canto”; second prize at the Sergei Rachmaninoff International Competition; the Grand Prix at the international vocal competition in Lyon led by Barbara Hendricks; and recognition at Irina Arkhipova’s television competition “Grand Prize of Moscow.”