Aigul Akhmetshina makes her Carnegie Hall debut this November, giving a recital with pianist Jonathan Palmer Lakeland at Zankel Hall on 11th November as part of the Great Singers: Jula Goldwurm Pure Voice Series. Love Without Borders: A Journey in Three Chapters is a programme she designed herself. It moves from art song by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Massenet and Montsalvatge through jazz standards, film and Latin American repertoire, to Bernstein’s Somewhere and Styne’s People.

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Akhmetshina gave the programme its first outing at Milton Court at London’s Barbican Centre in September to warm acclaim. Reviewing that recital, Seen and Heard International called it “a reminder as to just how huge Akhmetshina’s voice is, and how lyrical she can be,” finding her “sense of emotional warp and weft” “faultless.” The power of her performance was no less celebrated; A Youngish Perspective wrote that “her projection was incredible, her voice filling the whole room,” and named her among “the finest mezzo-sopranos of her generation.”

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Looking ahead, highlights of Akhmetshina’s 2026/27 season include returns to the Metropolitan Opera as Dalila in Samson et Dalila, to the Opéra national de Paris and Bayerische Staatsoper as Charlotte in Werther, to Teatro Real as Adalgisa in Norma, to the Staatsoper Unter den Linden as Lyubasha in The Tsar’s Bride and to the Bayerische Staatsoper as Carmen. On the concert platform she sings her first Giovanna Seymour in Anna Bolena at the Tiroler Festspiele Erl, the mezzo-soprano solo in Verdi’s Messa da Requiem at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, a recital at the Polish National Opera and the Metropolitan Opera’s Diamond Anniversary Gala.

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