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Elena Pankratova
Biography
The year 2010 became a turning point in the carrier of Russian soprano Elena Pankratova:
her fulminant role-debut as FÄRBERIN (R. Strauss Die Frau ohne Schatten) by Maggio
Musicale Fiorentino under the baton of Maestro Zubin Mehta, opened her the doors to the
major opera houses. She will appear as FÄRBERIN 2012 at La Scala di Milano and at
Valencia’s Palau de les Arts, 2013 - at Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, 2014 - at the Berliner
Staatsoper Unter den Linden as well as at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden.
Born in Yekaterinburg, one of the biggest industrial and cultural centres of Russia, Elena
Pankratova was first studying conducting and piano in her native city and later graduated
with honours as singer and actor from the St. Petersburg State Conservatory. She later was
the winner of several international singing competitions in Italy and Spain and polished for
years her roles of Italian repertoire with the great soprano Renata Scotto.
The young singer became her first opera engagement at the Staatstheater in Nuremberg,
where she immediately made her debut as AMELIA in Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera and
sung the roles like TOSCA, ARIADNE, LADY BILLOWS or CONTESSA in Mozart’s Le
Nozze di Figaro. In Basel she sung ALICE in Falstaff, ELISABETH in Wagner’s
Tannhäuser, Soprano in Verdi’s Missa da Requiem and Bellini’s NORMA.
During her career Elena Pankratova appeared as LEONORA in Verdi’s Il Trovatore in
Stuttgart, Dortmund and Moskau; as GUTRUNE and 3rd NORN in Wagner’s
Götterdämmerung at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City; as ODABELLA in Verdi’s
Attila at the Staatstheater Darmstadt; as SAFFI in J. Strauß’s Der Zigeunerbaron at the
world biggest Festival of Operetta in Mörbisch (Austria); as LEONORA in La Forza del
Destino at the Nationaltheater Mannheim and at Theater Bremen; as NORMA in Düsseldorf,
Kiel and Ulm; as ROSALINDE at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt; as Soprano in Pergolesi’s
Stabat Mater in Kioi Hall in Tokyo; as SENTA in Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer in
Frankfurt, Köln, Mainz und 2008 - at the Savonlinna Opera Festival (Finnland); as
ABIGAILLE in Verdi’s Nabucco in Frankfurt, Hamburg, Rotterdam and Den Haag; as
Puccini’s TOSCA at The Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, at the Ludwigsburg Festival, in
Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Innsbruck and 2010 – in Oslo:
Soprano worked with conductors as Kent Nagano, Ralf Weikert, Stefan Soltesz, Rudolf Bibl,
Massimo Zanetti, Nicola Luisotti, Julia Jones, Marc Soustrot, Giuliano Carella, John Fiore,
Marco Guidarini, and Axel Kober, as well as with stage directors as Tim Albery, Stefan
Herheim, Chen Kaige, Paul Curran, Carlus Padrissa, Claus Guth, Charles Roubaud,
Tilmann Knabe and Dieter Kaegi, to name just the few.
Ms. Pankratova’s future engagements include house-debut at Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires
as ALICE in Verdi’s Falstaff 2010, Mahler’s 8th Symphony at MITO Festival in Turin 2011,
Rossini’s Stabat Mater in Marseille 2012, Puccini’s TURANDOT in Bonn 2011, in Florence
and Bologna 2012, as well as Verdi’s AIDA in Marseille 2013.
Elena Pankratova
soprano
2014
2014
2013
2013
Staatsoper Unter
den Linden
Die Frau ohne
Schatten
Berlin
R. Strauss
Royal Opera
House
Die Frau ohne
Schatten
London
R. Strauss
Opéra Municipal
de Marseille
Aida
Concertgebouw
Die Frau ohne
Schatten
Amsterdam
Färberin
Zubin Mehta
Färberin
Claus Guth
Aida
G. Verdi
Färberin
Vladimir
Jurowski
- Konzertant -
Sieglinde,
Zubin Mehta
Carlus
Padrissa
Turandot
Zubin Mehta
Chen Kaige
Färberin
Zubin Mehta
R. Strauss
2013
2012
Maggio Musicale
Fiorentino
Der Ring des
Nibelungen
Florenz
R. Wagner
Maggio Musicale
Fiorentino
Turandot
Gutrune
G. Puccini
Florenz
2012
2012
2012
Palau de les Arts
Reina Sofia
Die Frau ohne
Schatten
Valencia
R. Strauss
Opéra Municipal
de Marseille
Stabat Mater
Teatro alla Scala
Die Frau ohne
Schatten
Milano
Soprano
- Konzertant -
G. Rossini
Färberin
Semyon
Bychkov
Claus Guth
R. Strauss
2012
2011
Teatro Comunale
Turandot
Bologna
G. Puccini
MITO Settembre
Musica Festival
Symphonie Nr. 8
Turandot
Mariusz
Trelinski
2. Sopran
Gianandrea
Noseda
- Konzertant -
Turandot
Stefan
Blunier
Silviu
Purcarete
G. Mahler
Torino
2011
Oper Bonn
Turandot
G. Puccini
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Elena Pankratova
soprano
2011
2010
2010
Livorno, Modena,
Luca, Pisa
Cavalleria Rusticana
Teatro Colon
Falstaff
Buenos Aires
G. Verdi
Norwegian
National Opera
Tosca
Santuzza
Jonathan
Webb
Alessio
Pizzech
Alice
Marco
Guidarini
Roberto
Oswald
Tosca
John Fiore
Paul Curran
Färberin
Zubin Mehta
Yannis Kokkos
P. Mascagni
G. Puccini
Oslo
2010
2009
Maggio Musicale
Fiorentino
Die Frau ohne
Schatten
Florenz
R. Strauss
Palau de la
Musica
Benefiz - Konzert
Tosca,
Santuzza
Donato
Renzetti
- Konzertant -
Messa da Requiem
Soprano
John Fiore
- Konzertant -
Zubin Mehta
Carlus
Padrissa
Valencia
2009
Norwegian
National Opera
G. Verdi
Oslo
2009
2009
2008
Palau de les Arts
Reina Sofia
Der Ring des
Nibelungen
Sieglinde,
Valencia
R. Wagner
3. Norn
Nationale
Reisopera
Niederlande
Nabucco
Abigaille
William Lacey Tim Albery
Savonlinna
Der fliegende
Holländer
Senta
Stefan
Ilkka
Soltesz
Bäckmann
Jari
Dieter Kaegi
Opera Festival
Ortlinde,
G. Verdi
R. Wagner
2008
2008
2008
Savonlinna
Mefistofele
Opera Festival
A. Boito
Staatstheater
Il Trovatore
Lübeck
G. Verdi
Palau de les Arts
Reina Sofia
Turandot
Elena
Hämäläinen
Leonora
Roman
Brogli-Sacher
Jacob
Peters-Messer
Turandot
Zubin Mehta
Chen Kaige
G. Puccini
Valencia
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Elena Pankratova
soprano
2007
2007
Companions
Opera
Amsterdam
Nabucco
Moskau
Il Trovatore
Abigaille
G. Verdi
Leonora
G. Verdi
2007
2006
Bremer Theater
Prinzregententheater
La Forza del Destino
Ralf Weikert
Axel Kober
Charles
Roubaud
Valery
- Konzertant -
Poljansky
G. Verdi
Leonora di
Vardas
Stefan
Klingele
David
MouchtarSamorai
Symphonie Nr. 14
Soprano
Alexander
Liebreich
- Konzertant -
Tosca
Steven
Mercurio
Alfred
Kirchner
Sergio Vela
D. Schostakowitsch
München
2006
Oper Frankfurt
Tosca
G. Puccini
2006
Palacio de Bellas
Götterdämmerung
Gutrune,
Guido Maria
Artes,
R. Wagner
3.Norn
Guida
Nationaltheater
La Forza del Destino
Axel Kober
Peter Oskarson
Mannheim
G. Verdi
Leonora di
Vargas
Luglio Musicale
Trapanese,
Un Ballo in
Maschera
Amelia
Bruno Aprea
Michal
Znaniecki
Sicilia
G. Verdi
Staatsoper
Il Trovatore
Leonora
Nicolas Brieger
Stuttgart
G. Verdi
Julian
Kovatchev
Alte Oper
Die Fledermaus
Rosalinde
- Konzertant -
Frankfurt
J. Strauß
Paolo
Carignani
Kioi Hall
Stabat Mater
Soprano
- Konzertant -
Tokyo
G. B. Pergolesi
Paolo
Carignani
Oper Frankfurt
Nabucco
Abigaille
Roland Böer
Bettina Giese
Senta
Christian
Arming
Anthony
Pilavachi
Mexico-City
2005
2005
2005
2005
2005
2004
G. Verdi
2004
Oper Frankfurt
Der fliegende
Holländer
R. Wagner
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Elena Pankratova
soprano
2004
2004
Alte Oper
Symphonie Nr. 2
Soprano
Paolo
Carignani
- Konzertant -
Frankfurt
G. Mahler
Bremer Theater
Tannhäuser
Elisabeth
Lawrence
Renes
Tilmann Knabe
Soprano
Paolo
Carignani
- Konzertant -
Frankfurt
Petite messe
solennelle G. Rossini
Theater Graz
Adriana Lecouvreuer
Alexander
Livenson
Gabriele Rech
F. Cilèa
Adriana
Lecouvreur
Messa da Requiem
Soprano
Baldo Podic
Andreas
Homoki
Tosca
Nicola
Willy Decker
R. Wagner
2004
2003
2003
Alte Oper
Oper Basel
G. Verdi
2003
2003
2003
Staatsoper
Tosca
Stuttgart
G. Puccini
Oper Bonn
Ariadne auf Naxos
Oper Basel
Luisotti
R. Strauss
Primadonna/ Marc Soustrot Kurt Horres
Ariadne
Norma
Norma
Baldo Podic
Robert
Schuster
Odabella
Franz
Brockhagen
- Konzertant -
Alice
Antony
Bramall
Alexander
Schullin
V. Bellini
2003
2003
Staatstheater
Attila
Darmstadt
G. Verdi
Staatstheater
Falstaff
Karlsruhe
G. Verdi
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