Jelena Prokina
Jelena Prokina ( Russian Елена Прокина , English transliteration Elena Prokina , scientific transliteration Elena Prokina ; born January 16, 1964 in Odessa ) is a Russian opera singer (soprano).
life and work
Jelena Prokina was born in Odessa in 1964 and began taking acting and singing lessons at the age of 13. She first studied in the choir and at the musical and comedy theater in Odessa. She then studied at the Theater, Cinema and Music Academy and at the International Rimsky-Korsakov Academy in Saint Petersburg with Tatiana Lavrova and Kira Isotova . As a doctoral student, Prokina joined the Mariinsky Opera in Saint Petersburg. Here she embodied numerous leading roles in musical theater such as Violetta in La traviata , Desdemona in Otello , Tatjana in Eugene Onegin , Natascha in War and Peace , Marguerite in Faust and Pauline in The Player . In 1992 she left this opera house.
In 1991 she won first prize at the “Maria Caniglia” International Singing Competition in Sulmona , Italy. She was nominated for the Grammy Classical Award for the role of Natascha Rostowa in Sergei Prokofiev's War and Peace . She received the “Evening Standard Classical Music and Opera Award” for outstanding opera performances for the following two roles: the title role in Káťa Kabanová at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden in 1993 and Tatjana in Eugen Onegin at the Glyndebourne Opera Festival in 1994.
Prokina has worked at the Edinburgh, Glyndebourne and Bregenz festivals as well as in Buenos Aires, London, Lisbon, Monte Carlo and Los Angeles. She has appeared in productions by John Cox, Temur Chkeidze , Harry Kupfer , Trevor Nunn and Graham Vick . She sang under the musical direction of Vladimir Ashkenazy , James Conlon , Edward Downes , Lawrence Foster , Bernard Haitink , Mariss Jansons , Mstislaw Rostropovich and Gennadi Roschdestwenski . From 1995 she played at the opera houses of Los Angeles (1995 together with Placido Domingo in Stiffelio ), Sydney and Zurich (here as a short-term substitute in Ruth Berghaus ' Zurich Otello production and as Amelia in Simon Boccanegra by Verdi). Since 2015 Prokina has been a lecturer in singing at the Anton Rubinstein International Music Academy in Düsseldorf.
Prokina is particularly interested in the embodiment of multi-layered, strong female figures from bel canto to modern times, including Lina (in Verdi's Stiffelio ), Káťa Kabanová (by Leoš Janáček), Donna Anna ( Don Giovanni by Mozart), Fewronia ( The Legend of the Invisible City Kitesch and the Virgin Fewronija von Rimski-Korsakow).
literature
- Rubinstein Academy: Elena Prokina. Retrieved October 20, 2018 .
- Jelena Prokina at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
- Oxford Reference: Elena Prokina. Retrieved October 20, 2018 .
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Prokina, Jelena |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Prokina, Elena; Прокина, Елена (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian opera singer (soprano) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 16, 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Odessa |