She was born in Samara, Russia, and graduated in singing and
piano in 2011 from the School of the Arts No. 17. In 2015 she completed her degree in the vocal department of the Samara Music College D.G. Shatalov. From 2015 to 2018 Fridman attended the Tomadini Conservatory of Music in
Udine. She later studied at the
Conservatory of Music “Benedetto Marcello” in Venice, and while there completed an internship at the Belcanto
Rodolfo Celletti's Academy in Martina Franca, with
Fabio Luisi as music director.
Singing career Fridman made her theatrical debut in 2019 in the lead role in the first modern production of
Albinoni's opera
La Statira, at
La Fenice in Venice. She subsequently performed at the
Festival della Valle d'Itria in
Martina Franca where she sang the title role in the opera
Ecuba by
Nicola Antonio Manfroce in an updated staging by
Pier Luigi Pizzi. Additionally she starred in the
Donizetti Festival in Bergamo as Sylvia de Linares in the world premiere of the opera ''
L'Ange de Nisida'' directed by Francesco Micheli. In 2020 Fridman assumed leading roles in the operas
Dido and Aeneas in Padova and
Lucrezia Borgia at
Müpa Budapest,
Teatro Verdi in Trieste and the
Aalto Theatre in Essen. During the 2021–2022 season she sang lead roles in the operas
Norma at
La Monnaie in Brussels and at
Teatro Regio in Turin;
Aroldo at the
Theatre Galli in Rimini;
Don Giovanni at
Deutsche Oper Berlin;
Il segreto di Susanna at the
Konzerthaus in Berlin; and
Eugene Onegin at
Staatsoper Hannover. In 2022 she was invited by
Pier Luigi Pizzi to make her debut as
Giuseppe Verdi's
Lady Macbeth on a tour in Italy. The following year she sang the main roles in the first staging of the opera
Dalinda by
Gaetano Donizetti, at the
Konzerthaus Berlin, and in
Richard Strauss's
Salome at the Immling Festival. In 2024 she sang the role of Amelia in the opera
Un ballo in maschera at the
Teatro Regio di Torino under the direction of
Riccardo Muti. In 2025 she sang Donizetti's
Anna Bolena in Venice. Fridman's repertoire extends to modern music by composers writing specifically for her voice:
L’ombra della luce by Marco Sinopoli (Biennale Festival in Venice 2019), the opera
Cassandra by Marco Podda (
Theater Coccia of Novara, 2020) and
Epigrammi by Domenico Turi (Verdi Theater in Martina Franca, 2022). ==Repertoire==