Elena Stikhina

Elena Stikhina (Russian: Елена Стихина, born 25 December 1986 in Lesnoy) is a Russian operatic soprano.
==Career==
After studying piano at the music school of her hometown Lesnoy.CV on the page of the music school Lesnoy, retrieved on June 20, 2018, Elena Stikhina studied singing at Moscow Conservatory and from 2012 to 2014 at Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre CV on the Mariinsky Theater website, retrieved on June 20, 2018 in Moscow. Having completed her studies, Stikhina became a soloist at the Primorsky Opera and Ballet Theater in Vladivostok in 2014, and from 2017 a soloist at Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg.
In just a few years Stikhina has developed an extensive repertoire focusing on Puccini, Verdi and Russian opera.
Stikhina has been performing globally at the most important opera houses since 2016. 2017 saw her American debut as Floria Tosca in Puccini's Tosca in Boston's Lyric OperaBoston Lyric Opera’s Tosca combines convention, experimentation, retrieved on July 11, 2019. In May 2018 she sang Senta in Richard Wagner's Flying Dutchman for the first time under the baton of Valery Gergiev in the Gasteig, Munich and Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Germany. In December 2018 Stikhina debuted at the Met as Puccini's Suor Angelica and in April 2019 as Cio-Cio-San in Puccini's Madama Butterfly at Dutch National Opera in AmsterdamBob Wilson's cool minimalist Butterfly is back in Amsterdam, retrieved on July 11, 2019. In 2019 Stikhina also debuted at the Salzburg Festival in the title role of Cherubini's MédéeYoung lirico-spinto soprano Elena Stikhina is already making a distinguished name for herself in the international world of opera, retrieved on April 14, 2020Elena Stikhina gives a no-holds-barred account of the title role, gathering the lion’s share of the applause, retrieved on April 14, 2020 and at the BBC Proms in London as Tatjana in the letter scene of Tschaikowski's Eugene Oneginhighly impressive and absorbing performance, retrieved on April 14, 2020.
==Repertory==
Role 	Composer 	Opera
Brünnhilde 	Wagner 	Siegfried
Cio-Cio-San 	Puccini 	Madama Butterfly
Desdemona 	Verdi 	Otello
Donna Leonora	Verdi 	La forza del destino
Elektra 	Mozart 	Idomeneo
Floria Tosca 	Puccini 	Tosca
Gutrune 	Wagner 	Götterdämmerung
Micaëla 	Bizet 	Carmen
Mimi 	Puccini 	La Bohème
Nedda 	Leoncavallo 	Pagliacci
Lady Macbeth 	Verdi 	Macbeth
Leonora 	Verdi 	Il trovatore
Lisa 	Tschaikowski	The Queen of Spades
Maliella 	Wolf-Ferrari	I gioielli della Madonna
Médée 	Cherubini 	Médée
Nedda 	Leoncavallo 	Pagliacci
Salome 	Strauss 	Salome
Senta 	Wagner 	Der fliegende Holländer
Sieglinde 	Wagner 	Die Walküre
Suor Angelica	Puccini 	Suor Angelica
Tatjana 	Tschaikowski	Eugene Onegin
==Recognition and awards==
* First Prize and Audience Award of the International Competition "Competizione dell'Opera" (Linz, Austria, 2014)Report of the Oberösterreichischen Nachrichten of 30 September 2014, retrieved on June 20, 2016. 
* Winner of the Audience Award "Best Singer" and the "Culturarte Award" in the context of Plácido Domingo's Operalia Competition 2016Operalia Website, retrieved on June 21, 2016.
* Operawire's "Artist Of The Week" on July 29, 2019 Russian Soprano Makes Salzburg Festival in 'Medée', retrieved on April 14, 2020.
* Casta Diva Award 2020 "Take Off" Elena Stikhina, retrieved on April 14, 2020.
==In the media==
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== References ==
== External links ==
* Vermittlerin der Gefühle“ in Opernnetz , retrieved on June 21, 2018
* Elena Stikhina sings Un bel di vedremo from Puccini's Madama Butterfly, retrieved on July 11, 2019
* Elena Stikhina on facebook
* Elena Stikhina on instagram
* Elena Stikhina | IMG Artists
* Elena Stikhina, soprano - Operabase
Category:1986 births
Category:Living people
Category:People from Lesnoy
Category:Russian operatic sopranos
Category:Saint Petersburg Conservatory alumni
Category:Moscow Conservatory alumni
Category:Russian sopranos
Category:21st-century opera singers
Category:21st-century Russian singers
Category:21st-century women singers
Category:Russian people