Svetlana Kasyan

Svetlana Davidovna Kasyan (Russian: Светлана Давидовна Касьян, born 24 July 1984) is a Russian-Kurdish operatic soprano.

[1][2] Svetlana Kasyan was born in a Yezidi Kurdish family on 24 July 1984 in Batumi, Georgian SSR, USSR.

[5] In 2010 she debuted on the Bolshoi Theatre stage in the Kupava party in “The Snow Maiden” opera by Rimsky-Korsakov, and later performed therein “The Love for Three Oranges” by S. Prokofiev and “The Enchantress” by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

[4] In the anniversary issue of the men's magazine “Maxim” in April 2017, she starred in an erotic photo shoot to “attract the attention of the public to the opera art”.

[8][9] On 17 December 2021, Svetlana Kasyan released her first album called Fratelli Tutti, which she dedicated to Pope Francis for his 85th birthday.