Elena Razgulyaeva

Soprano

Honoured Artist of Russia
Laureate of the 1^st prize of the XI International Festival of Spiritual Music Magutny Bozha, Belarus (Mogilev, 2003)
Laureate of the 1^st prize of the XI All-Russian Bella Voce Singers Competition (Moscow, 2003)
Laureate of the 1^st prize (solo singing), laureate of the 3^rd prize (chamber singing) of the XVI International Pietro Argento Music Competition (Bari, Italy, 2013)
Winner of the Governor's M. Maksakova Prize in the field of the Art of Singing (2012)
Diploma-winner of the first national opera award Onegin in the Prima Donna nomination (2016)

Born in Cherepovets, Vologda Oblast. Graduated from the Cherepovets V. Vereshchagin College of Arts and Crafts, majoring in choral conducting, and the Petrozavodsk A.K. Glazunov State Conservatory, majoring in solo singing (class of associate professor V.A. Volchkov).

In 2004-2010 she was a soloist of the Rostov Musical Theatre.

In 2010-2019, a soloist with the Astrakhan State Opera and Ballet Theatre. She took part in open air projects of the theatre Russian Operas in the Astrakhan Kremlin.

Since 2015 has been a guest soloist of the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre of Russia (Moscow).

Toured in the UK, USA, Ireland, Spain, and Portugal.

At the Golden Mask National Theatre Festival, Elena Razgulyaeva was thrice nominated for Best Actress due to her parts in Prince Igor, Madama Butterfly and The Queen of Spades and once for Opera/Actress due to her part in La damnation de Faust.

Since October 2019 she has been a member of the Opera Company of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre.

Repertoire at the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre:
Elisabeth de Valois (Don Carlo, G. Verdi)
Aida (Aida, G. Verdi)
Lady Macbeth (Macbeth, G. Verdi)
Floria Tosca (Tosca, G. Puccini)
Turandot, Liù (Turandot, G. Puccini)
Madama Butterfly (Madama Butterfly, G. Puccini)
Nedda (Pagliacci, R. Leoncavallo)
Liza (The Queen of Spades, P. Tchaikovsky)
Tatyana (Eugene Onegin, P. Tchaikovsky)
Tsaritsa Militrisa (The Tale of Tsar Saltan, N. Rimsky-Korsakov)
Nikoletta (The Love for Three Oranges, S. Prokofiev)
Maria (Mazepa, P. Tchaikovsky, concert performance)
Nastasya Filippovna Barashkova (Idiot, A. Smelkov, concert performance)
Madame Peronskaya (War and Peace, S. Prokofiev)

Repertoire also includes:
Micaëla (Carmen, G. Bizet)
Elvira (Don Giovanni, W.-A. Mozart)
Marguerite (La damnation de Faust, H. Berlioz)
Mimi (La bohème, G. Puccini)
Manon (Manon Lescaut, G. Puccini)
Violetta (La traviata, G. Verdi)
Leonora (Il trovatore, G. Verdi)
Desdemona (Otello, G. Verdi)
Amelia (Un ballo in maschera, G. Verdi)
Yaroslavna (Prince Igor, A. Borodin)
Iolanta (Iolanta, P. Tchaikovsky)
Fornarina (Raphael, A. Arensky)
Susanna (Khovanshchina, M. Musorgsky)
Fevroniya (The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya, N. Rimsky-Korsakov)