Elena Vitman

• Prize-winner at the International Nikolai Pechkovsky Competition (St Petersburg, 1994)
• Prize-winner at the International Vocalists’ Competition in Wrocław (Poland, 1992)

Elena Vitman was born in the Far East. She graduated from the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire and an assistantship at the St Petersburg Conservatoire (class of Professor Irina Bogacheva).
Elena Vitman has been a soloist at the Mariinsky Theatre since 1996, making her debut as Lyubava (Sadko).

Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre:
Naina (Ruslan and Lyudmila)
Xenia’s nurse, Hostess of the Inn (Boris Godunov)
Filippyevna (Eugene Onegin)
Bobylikha (The Snow Maiden)
Lyubov (Mazepa)
Princess Evpraksiya Romanovna (The Enchantress)
Polina and the Countess (The Queen of Spades)
Martha (Iolanta)
Solokha (Christmas Eve)
Domna Saburova (The Tsar's Bride)
Matchmaker-Crone Babarikha (The Tale of Tsar Saltan)
Amelfa the Housekeeper (The Golden Cockerel)
Death (Le Rossignol)
The Landlady, The Fortune-teller (The Fiery Angel)
Frosya (Semyon Kotko)
Maria Bolkonskaya, Akhrosimova, Vasilisa the Elder (War and Peace)
Elderly Lady, Podtochina (The Nose)
Lizaveta Prokofyevna Yepanchina (The Idiot)
The Grandmother (The Story of Kai and Gerda)
Azucena (Il trovatore)
Preziosilla (La forza del destino)
Princess (Suor Angelica)
Suzuki (Madama Butterfly)
Wowkle (La fanciulla del West)
Lucia (Cavalleria rusticana)
Marthe (Faust)
Hécube (Les Troyens)
Grimgerde, Rossweisse (Die Walküre)
Erda (Das Rheingold, Siegfried, Gütterdämmerung)
Voice of Antonia's mother (Les Contes d'Hoffmann)
Clytemnestra (Elektra)
The Nurse (Die Frau ohne Schatten)
Mrs Grose (The Turn of the Screw)
Grandmother Buryja (Jenůfa)
Geneviève (Pelléas et Mélisande)
La Cieca (La Gioconda, concert performance)

Elena Vitman’s repertoire also includes the roles of Azucena (Il trovatore), Amneris (Aida), Eboli (Don Carlo), Ulrica (Un ballo in maschera) and the Princesse de Bouillon (Adrienne Lecouvreur), as well as the mezzo-soprano roles in Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky cantata, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater and Verdi’s Requiem.

Together with the Mariinsky Opera Company, Elena Vitman has toured to Great Britain (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the Barbican Centre in London and the Cardiff Festival), Spain (Teatro Real, Madrid), Germany (Baden-Baden), Israel, Japan and the USA (the Kennedy Center in Washington).
The singer frequently performs programmes of chamber music in St Petersburg and in towns throughout Germany.

In 2009 Elena Vitman became the first singer in Russia to perform the role of the nurse in Strauss’ opera Die Frau ohne Schatten, and she also sang the role of Frosia in the premiere of a new production of Semyon Kotko at the Mariinsky Theatre in 1999.
In 2009 Elena Vitman was involved in a recording of the opera The Nose on the Mariinsky label, and this recording received a Grammy nomination. The singer’s discography also includes a recording of the opera Salome made by the Mariinsky Opera Company in Stockholm.