Elena Mikhailenko

Elena Mikhailenko was born in Magnitogorsk, graduated from the Magnitogorsk Music College, the Magnitogorsk Glinka State Conservatory and completed the postgraduate studies in the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory and the Gnessins Russian Academy of Music (training course of Professor R. Lisitsian). Elena is a winner of the International Vocal Competition in Astana (Kazakhstan, 2003), the Bella Voce
Competition (Moscow, 2005), the Glinka Competition (2009), a diploma winner of the Nadezhda Obukhova All-Russian Competition (Lipetsk, 2006).

In Helikon-Opera she made her debut as Katerina Izmailova in the play “Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District” by D. Shostakovich on the stage of the New Israeli Opera (2006). In 2014 she played this part in the Teatro Comunale di Bologna (production by D. Bertman). In 2007 she played the role of Aida in the common project of Helikon-Opera and the Opera de Massy (production by D. Bertman). In 2015 she made her debut on the stage of the Rome Opera (Italy) singing the part of Liza in the opera “The Queen of Spades” by P. Tchaikovsky.

Repertoire:

as Katerina Izmailova in "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk district" by D. Shostakovich
as Madame Lidoine "Les Dialogues des Carmelites" by F. Poulenc
as Juliette in "Les Contes d'Hoffmann"
as Catherine II in "Tsarina" by D. F. Tukhmanov
as Fata Morgana in "The Love for Three Oranges" by S. S. Prokofiev
as Volkhova in "Sadko" by N. Rimsky-Korsakov
as Stephanie in "Siberia" by U. Giordano
as Leonora in "Il Trovatore" by G. Verdi
as Aida in "Aida" by G. Verdi
as Rosalinda in "Die Fledermaus" by J. Strauss
as Lisa in "The Queen of Spades" by P. I. Tchaikovsky
as Isabella in "Das Liebesverbot" by R. Wagner
as Yaroslavna in "Prince Igor" by P. Borodin
as Tatiana in "Eugene Onegin" by P. I. Tchaikovsky
as Vittelia in "La Clemenza di Tito" By W. A. Mozart
as Turandot in "Turandot" by G. Puccini
as Leonora in "il Trovatore" by G.Verdi

Romances and songs by S. Rakhmaninov, G. Sviridov, A. Varlamov, A. Duparc, G. Donizetti, C. Gounod, G. Mahler, P. Viardo, Russian and Ukrainian folk songs.

PHOTOGALLERY

Scene from "The Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk" by D. D. Shostakovich
Boris Timofeevich - Andrey Serov, Katerina Izmailova - Elena Mikhailenko

Scene from "Tsarina" by D. F. Tukhmanov
Prince Potemkin-Tavrichesky - People's Artist of Russia Yuri Vedeneev, Caterine II - Elena Mikhailenko