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Laureate of the Golden Mask Russian National Theater Award. She appeared at the Bayreuth Festival, Edinburgh Festival, and Salzburg Easter Festival. She has performed on several occasions with the Berlin Philharmonic under Claudio Abbado and Nikolaus Harnoncourt. She collaborated with Placido Domingo, Ramon Vargas, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Krasimira Stoyanova, Anna Netrebko, Angela Georgiu and other eminent artists.
Elena is a graduate of the St. Petersburg Conservatoire. She participated in opera performances of the world’s largest theatrs, including the Vienna State Opera, Teatro Real in Madrid, Lyon Opera, Opéra Bastille Paris, Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, La Monnaie in Brussels, La Scala in Milan, Greek National Opera in Athens, National Theater in Prague, Grand Théâtre de Genève, theaters in Berlin, Stuttgart, Dresden, Hamburg, Cologne, Leipzig, the Royal Danish Opera, the National Theatre in Oslo, as well as the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, New National Theatre Tokyo, Seoul Arts Center, National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing. Elena performed Venus in Tannhäuser under Valery Gergiev at the Bayreuth Festival (2019).