Soprano Liudmila Lokaichuk was born in Angarsk (Russia) and studied voice at the "Mussorgsky" Conservatory in Yekaterinburg from 2006 to 2011.

Since 2010, she has performed at the Yekaterinburg Music Theater, from 2011 at the Chelyabinsk Theater, and since 2016 at the Yekaterinburg State Opera. In January 2016, she made her role debut as Gilda in Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto.

Liudmila Lokaichuk has won several international competitions, including at the Rheinsberg Chamber Opera in 2013 and 2015, where she performed Rosina in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia and Violetta in La Traviata; in 2016, she took second place at the Concorso Lirico Internazionale "Santa Gianna Beretta Molla" (Milan) and second place at the 5th Concorso Internazionale per Cantanti Lirici XXII Premio Cleto Tomba (Bologna).

She has collaborated with conductors such as Justus Frantz, Peter Valentovic, Stefan Sanderling, Sibylle Wagner, and Gregory Opelka. Notable collaborations with directors include Tito Capobianco, Frank Matthus, and Martin Schüler.

Her repertoire includes roles such as Belinda (Dido and Aeneas by Purcell), Frasquita, Susanna, Olympia, Adele, Violetta, Livietta in Pergolesi’s Livietta e Tracollo, and Tzeitel from Fiddler on the Roof.

In Germany, she appeared in 2013 at the Berlin Benefit Opera Gala with Edita Gruberová, Klaus-Florian Vogt, and the orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, as well as in 2014 and 2016 as Grete Minde in Siegfried Matthus' opera of the same name at the Fontane Festival in Neuruppin.

From 2016 to 2018, Liudmila Lokaichuk was a permanent member of the opera ensemble at the Cottbus State Theater, where she performed roles such as Blonde, Queen of the Night, Jenny (Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny), Zerlina, and Margarete (Scenes from Goethe’s Faust by Schumann).

Since the 2018/19 season, she has been a permanent ensemble member at the Halle Opera. There, she debuted as Inès (L’Africaine by Meyerbeer) and as Zerbinetta (Ariadne auf Naxos).

In the 2019/20 season, she appeared in the world premiere at the Cottbus State Theater in the title role of Siegfried Matthus' opera Effi Briest, as Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Gretel, Oscar (A Masked Ball), and at the Handel Festival in Halle as Agilea (Teseo).

In August 2019, Liudmila Lokaichuk performed the role of Giulietta in Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi at the Wernigerode Festival.

In 2020, she was featured in the world premiere of Siegfried Matthus' opera Effi Briest at the Cottbus State Theater in the title role, as Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) at the Halle Opera, and as Agilea (Teseo) at the Handel Festival in Halle.

Since the 2021/22 season, Liudmila has been a member of the ensemble at the Saarland State Theater, performing roles such as Zerbinetta and Morgana.

“And who wouldn’t fall in love with the Russian Liudmila Lokaichuk? Her smile makes every coloratura feel like a casual serenade. Opera buffa in the best sense of the word.” (Der Tagespiegel)

“The most Parisian voice of the evening comes from Russia and is called Liudmilla Lokaichuk. The soprano deservedly won high awards twice at Rheinsberg in the international singer competition of the Chamber Opera. Congratulations to the Cottbus Theater for signing this artist!” (www.kulturradio.de)