She was the winner of the 2013 Operalia competition and has featured in a number of productions staged at the Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg and the Vienna State Opera.

Her father is Emil Damirovich Garifullin, and her mother is Layla Ildarovna Garifullina[4] (a choir conductor), who is currently the Director of the Centre of Contemporary Music, n.a.

[9] After graduating in 2011, she performed during the closing ceremony of the XXVI Summer Universiade in Shenzhen,[10] and sang a duet with Alessandro Safina in Kazan.

[25] She portrayed the French-American soprano star Lily Pons and performed "The Bell Song" from Delibes' opera Lakmé in a downward-transposed key in the 2016 film Florence Foster Jenkins.

[26] In February 2017 she released a self-titled album on Decca, which contains 15 arias recorded with the ORF Radio-Symphony Orchestra directed by Cornelius Meister.

[27][28] On 13 June 2018, Garifullina performed at the 2018 FIFA World Cup opening gala concert held at the Red Square in Moscow.

She performed with Anna Netrebko, Juan Diego Florez and Placido Domingo and the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev.