Elena Pankratova. B i o g r a p h y

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1 B i o g r a p h y The year 2010 became a turning point in the carrier of Russian Elena Pankratova: her fulminant role-debut as FÄRBERIN ( ) by Maggio Musicale under the baton of Maestro, opened her the doors to the major opera houses. She will appear as FÄRBERIN 2012 at La Scala di Milano and at s Palau de les Arts, at Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, 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 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, 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 3 rd 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 ; as in Pergolesi s Stabat Mater in Kioi Hall in Tokyo; as SENTA in Wagner s Der fliegende Holländer in, Köln, Mainz und at the Savonlinna Opera Festival (Finnland); as ABIGAILLE in Verdi s Nabucco in, Hamburg, Rotterdam and Den Haag; as Puccini s TOSCA at The Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, at the Ludwigsburg Festival, in, Stuttgart, Innsbruck and 2010 in Oslo: worked with conductors as Kent Nagano, Ralf Weikert, 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, 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 8 th 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.

She will appear as FÄRBERIN 2012 at La Scala di Milano and at s Palau de les Arts, 2013 - at Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, 2014 - at the Berliner Staatsoper Unter den Linden as well as at the Royal

2 2014 Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin 2014 Royal Opera House Claus Guth London 2013 Opéra Municipal de Marseille Aida Aida 2013 Concertgebouw Amsterdam Vladimir Jurowski 2013 Maggio Musicale Der Ring des Nibelungen Sieglinde, Gutrune Carlus Padrissa 2012 Maggio Musicale Chen Kaige 2012 Palau de les Arts 2012 Opéra Municipal de Marseille Stabat Mater G. Rossini 2012 Teatro alla Scala Milano Semyon Bychkov Claus Guth 2012 Teatro Comunale Bologna Mariusz Trelinski 2011 MITO Settembre Musica Festival Torino Symphonie Nr. 8 G. Mahler 2. Sopran Gianandrea Noseda 2011 Oper Bonn Blunier Silviu Purcarete -1-

de les Arts 2012 Opéra Municipal de Marseille Stabat Mater G.

3 2011 Livorno, Modena, Luca, Pisa Cavalleria Rusticana P. Mascagni Santuzza Jonathan Webb Alessio Pizzech 2010 Teatro Colon Buenos Aires Falstaff Alice Marco Guidarini Roberto Oswald 2010 Norwegian National Opera Oslo 2010 Maggio Musicale John Fiore Paul Curran Yannis Kokkos 2009 Palau de la Musica Benefiz - Konzert, Santuzza Donato Renzetti 2009 Norwegian National Opera Oslo Messa da Requiem John Fiore 2009 Palau de les Arts Der Ring des Nibelungen Sieglinde, Ortlinde, 3. Norn Carlus Padrissa 2009 Nationale Reisopera Niederlande Nabucco Abigaille William Lacey Tim Albery 2008 Savonlinna Opera Festival Der fliegende Holländer Senta Soltesz Ilkka Bäckmann 2008 Savonlinna Mefistofele Elena Jari Dieter Kaegi Opera Festival A. Boito Hämäläinen 2008 Staatstheater Lübeck Il Trovatore Roman Brogli-Sacher Jacob Peters-Messer 2008 Palau de les Arts Chen Kaige -2-

Curran Yannis Kokkos 2009 Palau de la Musica Benefiz - Konzert, Santuzza Donato Renzetti 2009 Norwegian National Opera Oslo Messa da Requiem John Fiore 2009 Palau de les Arts Der Ring des Nibelungen

4 2007 Companions Opera Amsterdam Nabucco Abigaille Ralf Weikert Axel Kober Charles Roubaud 2007 Moskau Il Trovatore Valery Poljansky 2007 Bremer Theater La Forza del Destino di Vardas Klingele David Mouchtar- Samorai 2006 Prinzregententheater München Symphonie Nr. 14 D. Schostakowitsch Liebreich 2006 Oper Steven Mercurio Alfred Kirchner 2006 Palacio de Bellas Götterdämmerung Gutrune, Guido Maria Sergio Vela Artes, 3.Norn Guida Mexico-City 2005 Nationaltheater Mannheim La Forza del Destino di Vargas Axel Kober Peter Oskarson 2005 Luglio Musicale Trapanese, Sicilia Un Ballo in Maschera Amelia Bruno Aprea Michal Znaniecki 2005 Staatsoper Stuttgart Il Trovatore Julian Kovatchev Nicolas Brieger 2005 Alte Oper Die Fledermaus J. Strauß Rosalinde 2005 Kioi Hall Tokyo Stabat Mater G. B. Pergolesi 2004 Oper Nabucco Abigaille Roland Böer Bettina Giese 2004 Oper Der fliegende Holländer Senta Christian Arming Anthony Pilavachi -3-

Schostakowitsch Liebreich 2006 Oper Steven Mercurio Alfred Kirchner 2006 Palacio de Bellas Götterdämmerung Gutrune, Guido Maria Sergio Vela Artes, 3.

5 2004 Alte Oper Symphonie Nr. 2 G. Mahler 2004 Bremer Theater Tannhäuser Elisabeth Lawrence Renes Tilmann Knabe 2004 Alte Oper Petite messe solennelle G. Rossini 2003 Theater Graz Adriana Lecouvreuer F. Cilèa 2003 Oper Basel Messa da Requiem 2003 Staatsoper Stuttgart Adriana Lecouvreur Livenson Gabriele Rech Baldo Podic Andreas Homoki Nicola Luisotti Willy Decker 2003 Oper Bonn Ariadne auf Naxos Primadonna/ Ariadne Marc Soustrot Kurt Horres 2003 Oper Basel Norma V. Bellini Norma Baldo Podic Robert Schuster 2003 Staatstheater Darmstadt Attila Odabella Franz Brockhagen 2003 Staatstheater Karlsruhe Falstaff Alice Antony Bramall Schullin -4-

Cilèa 2003 Oper Basel Messa da Requiem 2003 Staatsoper Stuttgart Adriana Lecouvreur Livenson Gabriele Rech Baldo Podic Andreas Homoki Nicola Luisotti Willy

Sun 18 Nov 2012 Budapest(SO) Don Pasquale

Sun 18 Nov 2012 Budapest(SO) Don Pasquale Date Location Opera Sun 14 Oct 2012 Budapest(SO) Hunyadi László Sun 14 Oct 2012 Budapest(SO) Carmen Tue 16 Oct 2012 Budapest(SO) Carmen Fri 19 Oct 2012 Budapest(SO) Il barbiere di Siviglia Sun 21 Oct 2012