Guseva was born in
Kurgan, southwest Siberia. She was exposed to music when her mother took her along to choir rehearsals at age three. She first studied choral conducting at the Kurgan Conservatory until 2006, and then voice at the
Moscow Conservatory with
Galina Pisarenko, where she graduated with excellence in 2011. Beginning in 2009, she has performed regularly at the
Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theatre in Moscow, in roles such as Puccini's Mimì in
La bohème and the title role of
Madama Butterfly, Tatjana in Tchaikovsky's
Eugene Onegin, Leonora in Verdi's
La forza del destino, Elvira in Mozart's
Don Giovanni, Micaela in Bizet's
Carmen, Antonia in Offenbach's ''
Les contes d'Hoffmann'', Emma in Mussorgsky's
Khovanshchina and Natasha in Prokofiev's
War and Peace. She appeared as a guest at the
Staatstheater Saarbrücken as Jaroslawna in Borodin's
Prince Igor and the
Deutsche Oper Berlin as Mimi. She appeared at the
Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse as Gerhilde in Wagner's
Die Walküre, at the
Theater Basel as Polina in Prokofiev's
Der Spieler, the
Hamburg State Opera and
Opéra National de Lyon, adding roles such as Verdi's
Aida and
Desdemona, and Puccini's
Tosca to her repertoire. She performed at international festivals, as Lisa in Tchaikovsky's
Pique Dame at the
Savonlinna Opera Festival, and as Nastasja in Tchaikovsky's
Die Zauberin at the Festival Vie et Destins in Lyon. In 2017, Guseva performed as Polina in the first production of Prokofiev's
Der Spieler at the
Vienna State Opera. On the occasion, she was interviewed and said that having trained as a choral conductor "helped her extremely" to analyse its score. She noted that Dostojevsky, who wrote
the novel on which the opera is based, gave the character of Polina many aspects but ultimately left her relationship to the Marquis open, with room for interpretation. She returned to Vienna as Madame Butterfly, Aida, Desdemona and Tatjana. Guseva appeared at the
Bavarian State Opera in the 2020/21 season as Liù in Puccini's
Turandot and as Marietta in Korngold's
Die tote Stadt alongside
Klaus Florian Vogt. A reviewer noted her intense timbre and "beautifully dark blazing passion" ("schön dunkel lodernde Leidenschaft"). ==Awards==