The mezzo-soprano Alisa Kolosova began by studying piano and choral singing before joining the Moscow Academy of Theatre Arts in 2004, and then the Moscow State Conservatory in 2005. She made her debut there in 2008 as the Novice Mistress in Puccini’s Suor Angelica.

In 2009, Alisa Kolosova took part in the Salzburg Festival’s young singer programme, where she performed the roles of Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro and Irene in Theodora (Haendel). She attended masterclasses with Christa Ludwig and performed in concert under the baton of Ivor Bolton. In 2009, she joined the Atelier Lyrique of the Paris Opera and later sang Judith in Mozart’s Betulia liberata at the Salzburg Festival and the Ravenna Festival in 2010. That same year, she also performed the role of Marquise Melibea in Le voyage à Reims in Pesaro and Olga in Eugene Onegin at the Paris Opera. In 2011, she sang Selinda in Vivaldi’s Farnace at the Bremen Festival, in Ambronay, in Lausanne, and at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, and made her Glyndebourne debut as the Nymph in Dvořák’s Rusalka. In 2012, she portrayed Rosette in Manon and Nicoletta in L’Amour des trois oranges at the Paris Opera before taking on the role of Vania in Glinka’s Une Vie pour le Tsar at the Montpellier Festival. That year, she made her debut at the Vienna State Opera as the Fifth Girl in Weill’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. She returned to the Vienna institution in 2013 as Flosshilde in Das Rheingold and Fenena in Nabucco, and again in 2014 as Fyodor in Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov. In 2014, she also debuted at the Bavarian State Opera as Maddalena in Rigoletto and in Rome as Calbo in Rossini’s Maometto II.

She returned to the Paris Opera in 2015 for Rusalka, this time as the Foreign Princess. She then went to the Basel Theatre to take on the title role of Samson et Dalila. In 2016, she made her debut in Amsterdam with the contralto part in Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette and with the role of Isoletta in Bellini’s L’Etrangère. The role of Olga (in Eugene Onegin) opened the doors for her at the Warsaw Opera and the Chicago Opera in 2017. She subsequently performed as Marina in Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov in Seoul. That same year, she went to Novara for her debut as the title role in Carmen, while the role of Suzuki in Madame Butterfly took her to the Hamburg Opera, and the role of Samaritana in Zandonai’s Francesca da Rimini brought her to La Scala in Milan in 2018. The following year, she sang Neris in Cherubini’s Medeaat the Salzburg Festival, and Federica in Luisa Miller in Chicago, while her role as Fenena in Nabucco led her to the Valencia Opera.

In 2024-2025, she will notably be heard in Carmen (in Verona), Amneris Aida (at the Rouen Opera), and Eugene Onegin(at La Scala).