Belkina, Elena Yuryevna

Born in Tashkent ; In 1989, the family moved to the homeland of their ancestors, in the Crimea . Early showed musical abilities. From the age of 11 she already sang on stage, was engaged in drawing, sang in the Antem spiritual choir and graduated from the Dzhankoy Music School in piano.

At the age of 14, she met her first vocal teacher Nikolai Gorbatov, who revealed the talent of a young opera singer. Received at the Kiev Higher School of Music named. Gliera. After graduating from 3 courses, she was admitted to the National Music Academy of Ukraine named after Tchaikovsky in the class of People’s Artist of the USSR, Hero of Ukraine Evgenia Miroshnichenko . At the 3rd year she won the International Vocal Competition. Gmyri received an invitation to become a soloist of the Leipzig Opera, where she made her debut in 2009 in the role of Zaida ("Turk in Italy" by J. Rossini). In parallel, she studied at the Higher School of Music. Mendelssohn-Bartholdi , who graduated with honors in 2012.

For many years, producer Andrea Andermann (known for the opera films "Tosca", "Rigoletto in Mantua" with Placido Domingo , Caterina Malfitano, Ruggero Raymondi and "La Traviata in Paris" with Eteri Gvazava and Jose Kura ) has been looking for the main character for his new project " Cinderella". Hearing Belkin in Dusseldorf in the party of Rosina, he invited me to auditions in Rome and, together with the director Carlo Verdone, approved. On June 3, 2012, the film-opera Cinderella was broadcast live on television in many countries of the world, and later in Italian cinemas.

The Italian newspaper La Stampa wrote about Cinderella - Belkina like this:

In 2014, the artistic director of the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, maestro Alberto Dzedda invited Belkina to play the role of Arzache in the opera Aurelian in Palmyra. Rossini wrote this part for the famous castrato J. B. Velluti (1780-1861). The singer was entrusted to perform his cadences, found in the archive, which no one performed after the singer’s death, and the opera was staged for the first time in the history of the festival (since 1980)

The international press praised the skill of Belkina:

She performed the parts of Rosina, Dorabella, Cherubino, Olga, Polina on the stages of the Opera Leipzig, the German Opera on the Rhine, the Palace of Arts of Valencia, the Royal Theater of Madrid, the Teatro Comunale of Bologna, the National Theater of Tokyo, the Vienna State Opera, the Mikhailovsky Theater, the State Theater Munich. She participated in numerous festivals, including the Handel Festival at the composer's homeland in Halle, the Bach Festival in Leipzig, the Richard Strauss Festival in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, the Trans-Siberian Art Festival in Novosibirsk, etc.

• Lena Belkina, mezzosoprano (English) . medea production gmbh (2014). Date of treatment April 14, 2015.