The Russian soprano, Elena Semenova [Russian: Елена Семенова], finished musical school and musical college (piano class). She graduated from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory with a specialization in “Solo Singing” (training course of Professor I. Maslennikova) (1995-1998); and completed the postgraduate studies at the Conservatory (from 1998). She is the winner of the Elena Obraztsova 1st International Competition (2000), the Bella Voce Competition (2000), the Sobinov Festival (Saratov, 2003), the Klaudia Taev International Competition of Young Singers (Estonia, 2003), the Belvedere International Vocal Competition (Austria, 2005).
Elena Semenova has been a soloist in Helikon-Opera i Moscow since 1998. She has made tours to Tours: Spain, France, UK. She sang on the stages of the Bastille Opera (France), the Canadian Opera Company, the Komische Oper (Berlin, Germany), appeared at the festivals in France, the Netherlands, and gave solo concerts in Berlin. She was given a title of “Honorable Person of Art of Moscow” (2015).
Her repertoire includes: Michaela in Georges Bizet’s Carmen; Catherine in Gretry’s Pierre le Grand; Antonia in Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann; Adele in Strauss’s Die Fliedermaus; Marfa in Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride; Lubava in N. Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sadko; Alice Ford in Verdi’s Falstaff; Natasha Rostova in Prokofiev’s War and Peace; Mimi in Puccini’s La Boheme; Tatiana in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin; participates in scenes from Gershwin-Gala; Duchess Catherine in Tsarina by D.F. Tukhmanov; Mariana in Das Liebesverbot by R. Wagner; Thisbe in Pyramus and Thisbe by J.F. Lampe; Elena in the Hin und Zurück. She currently lives in Moscow, Russia. |