Lubov Karetnikova was born in the United States and grew up in Latvia, having Ukrainian heritage. Lubov ocompleted her studies in opera performance at Latvian Music Academy and Lithuanian Music and Theater University with Irena Milkeviciute, as well as Lied and Oratorium Performance at Mozarteum in Salzburg, where she has studied with Barbara Bonney, Wolfgang Holzmair and Pauliina Tukiainen. Lubov has taken Masterclasses with such singers as Clarry Bartha, Liene Kinča, Marek Rzepka, Tamar Rachum and Thomas Hampson.
The season 2024/2025 Lubov returns as Adina in Donizetti' s "L'elisir d'amore" and makes her debut in the part of Marguerite in Gunoud’s “Faust” at the Latvian National
Opera . She will also make her house debut at the Frankfurt Opera House as Rosalie in Dittersdorf’s "Doktor und Apotheker”.
Lubov is the First prize winner of Debut Competition 2024.
Last season, Lubov appeared as Julliete Vermont in Franz Lehàr’s “Der Graf von Luxemburg” at the Tiroler Festpiele Erl, as Fiordiligi in “Cosi fan tutte” in Teatri di Pistoia and as Adina in Sven-Eric Bechtolf ’s new production of “L'elisir d' amore” at the Latvian Opera House. Her past operatic engagements include Gilda in G. Verdi's "Rigoletto" in Theater-Hof, in 2018, Pamina in Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte” in Trentino in 2017, Nannetta in G.Verdi's opera "Falstaff" at the Lithuanian National Philharmonic in 2019 among others.
Lubov is also known as a distinguished chamber singer. She has vast chamber repertoire and works with different festivals and venues. She has performed in various venues like Riga Guild Hall, the Latvian National Theater, Dzintari Hall, Ziedonis Hall in Riga, Wigmore Hall in London and Flagey in Brussels among others.
