“She gave a performance that I felt lucky to witness. Cheplakova is agile and graceful as a singer and actress, with impressive technical control over her gorgeous instrument. …. Her voice - silvery and piercing at the top of her register, plummy and sweet at the bottom - is sumptuous” - The New York Times

‍In the 2024/25 season, Galina made a milestone debut at The Metropolitan Opera as Lisa Queen of Spades, alongside her debuts at Bayerische Staatsoper as Violetta La traviata, Francesca Francesca da Rimini with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Kirill Petrenko, and as soprano soloist in Britten’s War Requiem with the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra. Current and upcoming engagements include her house debuts with Opera Australia as Mimì La bohème, Opéra National Montpellier and Opéra de Dijon as Nedda Pagliacci and in concert with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Edward Gardner, the Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin under Vladimir Jurowski and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under Karina Canellakis.

Recent highlights include Violetta La traviata at Oper Graz; Tatiana Eugene Onegin, Mimì La bohème, Marguerite Faust, soloist in La voix humaine, Zemfira Aleko with State Opera Kazakhstan, and Micaëla Carmen and Tatiana at Bashkir State Opera.