Soloist

Lena Belkina

Lena Belkina studied at the Peter Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine under the guidance of Eugenia Miroshnichenko and Nikolai Gorbatov. In 2008 she won the most important singing competition in Ukraine, the Borys Romanovich Hmyria Competition in Kiev and was from 2009 to 2012 a member of the ensemble at the Leipzig opera house. In 2010 she sang Elmira in the opening concert of the Handel Festival in Halle in Handel's »Il Floridante« as well as at the Leipzig Bach Festival and the role of Etelia in Meyerbeer's »Emma di Resburgo« at the Konzerthaus in Vienna. In 2012 she completed her degree with distinction and was awarded her academic degree at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Leipzig.

She has made guest appearances, including as Olga (»Eugene Onegin«) at Teatro Comunale di Bologna, as Polina and Milovsor (»Pique Dame«) at the Mikhailovsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, as Cherubino (»Le nozze di Figaro«) at the New National Theatre in Tokyo and at Teatro Real Madrid, as Rosina (»Il barbiere di Siviglia«) at Deutsche Oper am Rhein and also as Cherubino, Flora (»La Traviata«), Javotte (»Manon«) and the Second Lady (»Die Zauberflöte«) at Wiener Staatsoper.

She gained particular attention in 2012 with her performance as Angelina in Carlo Verdone's film version of Rossini's »La Cenerentola«. The production was awarded both the »Prix Italia 2012« as well as the public prize at the Music Gardens Festival in Warsaw and has by now been broadcast in more than 150 countries.

As an exclusive artist, Lena Belkina has made recordings for the Sony Classical label of a bel canto album under the direction of Alessandro de Marchi with the Munich Radio Orchestra as well as a Vienna Classic album with Andrea Sanguineti and the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.

In the summer of 2014 she sang Arsace in a newly revised edition of Rossini's »Aureliano in Palmira« at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro.