Alevtina Ioffe studied choral conducting and piano and graduated from the Faculty of Opera and Symphony Conducting of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow.
Ioffe attracted international attention in 2019 with the successful debut at the Bayerische Staatsoper with the double bill of Tchaikovsky’s Yolanta and Stravinsky’s Mavra.
Since then, she has appeared at the Komische Oper Berlin with a new production of Die Grossherzogin von Gerolstein and Les contes d’Hoffmann staged by Barrie Kosky and at the State Theatre in Stuttgart with a new production of Hänsel und Gretel. She made her US debut in May 2022 with a new production of Le nozze di Figaro at the Seattle Opera.
Equally successful have been Ioffe’s appearances with symphonic orchestras: in September 2020 she appeared for the first time with the Orchestre National de Lille, returning in June 2022; she made her debut at the Philharmonie de Paris in October 2021, conducting the Orchestre de l’Île-de-France, and was immediately reinvited. In June 2022 she made her debut with the Staatskapelle Weimar.
Ioffe was the first women to lead a major musical institution in Russia. She is a former Music Director of Mikhailovsky Theatre in St. Petersburg after a decade in the same position at the Natalia Sats Theatre in Moscow.
Photo: Victor Goriachev