Elena Karpesh was born in Belarus. She graduated from Minsk’s Belarusian State Academy of Music (class of Lyubov Kasporskaya) in 2006 and completed her postgraduate studies there in 2008.
At the Opera Studio of the National Opera Theatre of the Republic of Belarus (Minsk) the artist performed the role of Tatiana in Eugene Onegin.
Since 2008 she has been a soloist with the Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers. Made her Mariinsky Theatre debut in 2009, appearing as the Second Lady in Die Zauberflöte.
Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre:
Parasya (Sorochintsy Fair)
Pannochka (May Night)
Woman with Normal Nose (Christmas Eve)
Masha (Dubrovsky, concert performance)
A Nun (The Fiery Angel)
Manilov's Mother and Bobelina (Dead Souls)
Peasant Woman (Shponka and His Aunt)
Pamina and Second Lady (Die Zauberflöte)
Corinna (Il viaggio a Reims)
Giulietta (I Capuleti e i Montecchi, concert performance)
Countess Ceprano (Rigoletto)
Annina (La traviata)
Thibault (Tebaldo) (Don Carlo)
Sister Osmina (Suor Angelica)
Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi)
The Mermaid and the Princess (Dvořák’s Rusalka)
Soprano part in Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev)’s oratorio Matthäus-Passion
Her repertoire also includes Liù (Turandot), Salomé (Hérodiade), Armida (Rinaldo) and the title roles in Adrienne Lecouvreur, La Wally and Rachmaninoff’s Francesca da Rimini.
Has performed concerts in the CIS, Germany, France, the Czech Republic and Poland.
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