Gelena Gaskarova

Soprano

• Prize-winner at the VII International Moniuszko Vocal Competition (Warsaw, 2010)
• Prize-winner at the II Rachmaninoff Open Regional Competition and Festival (St Petersburg, 2001)
• Prize-winner at the International Rimsky-Korsakov Young Opera Singers’ Competition (St Petersburg, 2004 and 2008)
• Prize-winner at the International Lisitsian Competition (Vladikavkaz, 2004)

Born in St Petersburg. She graduated from the Rimsky-Korsakov Music College in 2003 and from the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire in 2008.
Soloist with the Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers since 2001.

Her repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre includes:
Oxana (Christmas Eve)
Iolanta (Iolanta)
Tatiana (Eugene Onegin)
Volkhova (Sadko)
Giannetta (L’elisir d’amore in concert)
Contessa di Ceprano, Page (Rigoletto)
Annina (La traviata)
Kate Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly)
Suor Osmina, Monitress (Suor Angelica)
Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi)
Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte)
First Lady (Die Zauberflöte)
Micaëla (Carmen)
Maria (West Side Story)
Rusalka (Dvořák’s Rusalka)
Antonia (Les contes d'Hoffman)
Spirit (Dido and Aeneas)
and Eliza Doolittle (My Fair Lady)

Her repertoire also includes:
Musetta (La bohème), Violetta (La traviata) and Lidochka (Moscow, Cheryomushki).

At the Latvian National Opera she performed the role of Tatiana in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin in 2011.

Upcoming performances:
19 July My Fair Lady
21 July My Fair Lady
22 July My Fair Lady