[2][3][4] Though Berzhanskaya is a mezzo-soprano, in the past she has sung roles ranging from dramatic coloratura soprano (the Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte) to contralto (Isabella in L'italiana in Algeri).
[5] She sang as a soprano in the first years of her career, and her repertoire included the Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte, Musetta in La bohème, Micaëla and Frasquita in Carmen, the Swan Princess in The Tale of Tsar Saltan, and the title role of Massenet's Thaïs.
[9] In 2016, she appeared at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro as La Marchesa Melibea in Il viaggio a Reims in a production by Emilio Sagi [ast; es; fr], after studying with Alberto Zedda in the Accademia Rossiniana.
In 2017, she took part in the Young Singers Project of the Salzburger Festspiele where she sang Frau Pfeil in Mozart's Der Schauspieldirektor.
She made her house debut with the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma as Angelina in La Cenerentola,[13] returned to the Salzburg Festival as Diane in Orphée aux enfers in a new production by Barrie Kosky, with Enrique Mazzola conducting the Vienna Philharmonic,[14][15] and also returned to Theater Basel to sing Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia in Kirill Serebrennikov's production, with David Parry conducting the Sinfonieorchester Basel.