Stihina, Elena

Elena Stikhina was born on December 25, 1986 in the town of Lesnaya, Sverdlovsk Region . She studied at the city’s children's music school, piano class by TP Mochalova ^[1] . After graduating from music school she studied at the City House of Culture. Thanks to the teacher Olga Sergeevna Khruleva, who was engaged in the production of voice, Elena Stikhina fell in love with classical music ^[3] .

Elena Stikhina graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 2012. She studied in the class of Larisa Rudakova ^{[4] [1]} . During her studies, she became the first performer of the works “My Love”, “Musical Offering to A. Tarkovsky”, “A Cycle of Works to Poems by A. Voznesensky” K. Shiryaev, “A Cycle to Poems by Persian Poets” by F. Khaidarova ^[5] .

From 2012 to 2014 she studied with Makvala Kasrashvili ^[4] at the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Center ^[3] .

After graduating from the conservatory, she worked in the Russian-German ensemble of young performers. Passed the competition in the Primorsky Opera and Ballet Theater and began to play the part of Nedda in the opera “Pagliacci” by Ruggero Leoncavallo ^[5] .

In 2013, she participated in the International Opera Master Class in Zurich . She performed at the Beethoven Festival in Bonn , the Bruknerhaus in Linz and Tonhalle in Zurich ^[4] .

Laureate I degree II International Vocal Competition them. S.V. Rakhmaninov. In 2013 she became the owner of a special prize of the Rostov State Musical Theater. In 2014, she won the I degree in the International Competition “Competizione dell 'Opera” in Austria and won the audience award ^[1] .

In 2014, Elena Stikhina became a soloist of the State Primorsky Opera and Ballet Theater. In 2016–2017, she performed for the first time in the Theater of Basel (Leonora in The Force of Destiny), the Mariinsky Theater (in Solomey), the Finnish National Opera, the Paris Opera. She sang the part of Lady MacBeth in Verdi’s opera on the Maritinsky Theater Primorsky Stage. She participated in Jose Carreras' concerts as part of his farewell tour. ^[4]

In 2017 she became a soloist with the Mariinsky Theater . At the Mariinsky Theater, she performs Salome (“Salome”), Electra (“Idomeneo”), Floria Tosca (“Tosca”), Lisa (“The Queen of Spades”), Nedda (“Pagliacci”), Donna Leonora (“The Power of Fate”) ^{[ 4]} .

Also in her repertoire: Olga (“The Story of a Real Man”), Tatiana (“Eugene Onegin”), Michaela (“Carmen”), Nedda (“Payatsy”), Countess (“Marriage of Figaro”), Violetta (“La Traviata” ), Zemfira (“Aleko”). The title party in the opera "Iolanta" ^[4] .

Received the national opera award "Onegin" and the highest theater prize of St. Petersburg "Golden Sofit" . Was nominated for a “ Golden Mask ” ^[4] .

May 31, the last of the series of performances of "Eugene Onegin" in the Paris Opera. Helen “insured” the main operatic diva of modernity at all performances of the famous minimalist production directed by Willy Decker in 1995, revived on the stage of the Opera of the Bastille. She recalls how Tatiana sang then: “Anna fell ill, and when in the hall, before the curtain was lifted, it was announced that I would speak instead of her, the public began to make letters. I thought: just do not cry. But after the aria, “I am writing to you - what is more painful? ..” I just physically felt how the audience let go, and I along with them. However, it was still not easy to go out for the final bows - you completely donated your energy, but you cannot be responsible for the emotions of other people, you do not know how they will react. There was a round of applause, and they were long. ” ^[6]