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Stikhina proved to be a revelation as well as the main success of the performance; it is rare indeed that the world of opera is suddenly assailed by some super-new and hitherto totally unknown star. To sing the role of Salome extraordinary powers of endurance, energy and vocal stability are required; Stikhina’s dramatic soprano possessed all of the aforementioned qualities. The timbre of the voice was powerful yet tender at the same time – an ideal combination for the role of Salome, a woman who is still half a child and who is inflamed by a forbidden passion for the prophet Jochanaan.
Gyulara Sadykh-zade, Vedomosti (“The News”), 12 February 2017
Elena Stikhina performed the role of Sieglinde in Die Walküre and made her debut as Brünnhilde in Siegfried. Her stunning voice filled the whole auditorium effortlessly even on the piano notes, and it pierced the orchestral mass in the forte like a ray of light, at the same time remaining tender and palpitating. With such vocal perfection, in and of itself sufficient, this was also a genuine transformation, the inclusion of the self in the process of the performance and selfless existence within it.
Denis Velikzhanin, Colta.ru, 22 December 2020
• Recipient of the Casta Diva Russian Opera Award (2020)
• Recipient of the Onegin National Opera Award and St Petersburg’s most prestigious theatre prize Golden Sofit (2017; for the role of Salome in a Mariinsky Theatre production)
• Recipient of the Audience Award and special Culturarte Prize at the 24th World Opera Competition Operalia (Guadalajara, Mexico, 2016)
• Prize-winner at the 13th Competizione dell’Opera (Linz, Austria, 2014; 1st prize)
• Prize-winner at the 2nd International Rachmaninoff Vocalists’ Competition (Rostov-on-Don, 2013; 1st prize)
• Prize-winner at the 4th Georgy Sviridov International Chamber Singing Competition (Kursk, 2011; 3rd prize)
Elena Stikhina was born in Sverdlovsk Region. In 2012 she graduated from the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory (class of Larisa Rudakova). Trained under Makvala Kasrashvili at the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Singing Centre (2012–2014).
From 2014 to 2017 the artist was a soloist of the State Primorsky Opera and Ballet Theatre (since 2016 the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre). Elena made her St Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre debut as Salome at the premiere of a new production in February 2017, immediately thereafter she became a member of the Mariinsky Opera Company.
Since the Operalia competition in 2016 the singer has been a much sought-after guest performer at opera houses in Europe and the USA. She has made her debuts with the Finnish National Opera and the Opéra national de Paris (Tatiana in Eugene Onegin), Boston Lyric Opera (Floria Tosca), the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin (Mimì in La bohème), the Deutsche Oper Berlin (Leonora in Il trovatore), the Bayerische Staatsoper (Senta in Der fliegende Holländer) and the Metropolitan Opera (Sister Angelica in Suor Angelica) among other famed theatres.
In the summer of 2019 Elena Stikhina made her debut at the Salzburg Festival, singing the title role in Cherubini’s opera Médée. In February 2021 portrayed Salome at the Teatro alla Scala. The artist performs at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (Floria Tosca, Aida, Salome), the Metropolitan Opera (Donna Leonora in La forza del destino, Mimì in La bohème, Elsa in Lohengrin), the Wiener Staatsoper (Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana, Giorgetta in Il tabarro, Floria Tosca), the Opéra national de Paris (Donna Leonora in La forza del destino, Yaroslavna in Prince Igor, Aida, Floria Tosca), the Deutsche Oper Berlin (Cio-Cio-San), the Bayerische Staatsoper and the Grand Théâtre de Genève (Aida), the Semperoper Dresden (Donna Leonora in La forza del destino, Aida), Amsterdam’s Dutch National Opera (Cio-Cio-San in Robert Wilson’s production, Aida, Sister Angelica), the Opernhaus Zürich (Salome, solo part in Rachmaninoff’s The Bells), the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma and the Philharmonie Berlin (solo part in Verdi’s Requiem), the Teatro Regio Torino (Giorgetta in Il tabarro), Warsaw’s Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera (Donna Leonora in La forza del destino), the Salzburg Festival (Alice Ford in Falstaff, Aida, solo part in Britten’s War Requiem), the Arena di Verona Opera Festival (Aida), London’s Barbican Centre (solo part in Shostakovich’s Fourteenth Symphony) and New York’s Lincoln Center (Floria Tosca).
Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre:
Tatiana (Eugene Onegin)
Maria (Mazepa)
Kuma (Nastasya) (The Enchantress)
Agnès Sorel (The Maid of Orleans)
Yaroslavna (Prince Igor)
Liza (The Queen of Spades)
Oxana (Christmas Eve)
Renata (The Fiery Angel)
Parasha (Mavra)
Elettra (Idomeneo, re di Creta)
Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni)
First Lady (Die Zauberflöte, Primorsky Stage)
Donna Leonora (La forza del destino)
Aida (Aida)
Nedda (Pagliacci)
Mimì (La bohème)
Floria Tosca (Tosca)
Cio-Cio-San (Madama Butterfly)
Sister Angelica (Suor Angelica)
Senta (Der fliegende Holländer)
Princess Elisabeth (Tannhäuser)
Elsa (Lohengrin)
Sieglinde (Die Walküre)
Brünnhilde (Siegfried)
Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus)
Salome (Salome)
Chrysothemis (Elektra)
Antonia (Les Contes d’Hoffmann)
Her repertoire also includes the roles of Desdemona (Verdi’s Otello), the Countess Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Violetta Valéry (La traviata), Micaëla (Carmen), Zemfira (Aleko), Olga (The Story of a Real Man) and Iolanta among others.
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