Lena Belkina

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Lena Belkina ( Russian Elena Júriewna Belkina ; born November 27, 1987 in Tashkent , Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic ) is a Ukrainian opera, concert and lied singer ( mezzo-soprano ).

Life

Training and initial engagements

Lena Belkina was born in Tashkent (Uzbekistan) and moved to Ukraine with her family in 1989. As a child, she performed as a singer of folk songs in her hometown of Dschankoj on the Crimean peninsula. At the age of 14 she received singing lessons and then studied from 2003 to 2009 at the Tchaikovsky Music Academy in Kiev with Yevhenia Miroshnychenko and Nikolai Gorbatow. After winning the Ukrainian international Boris Gmyria singing competition, she was a member of the Leipzig Opera from 2009 to 2012 . At the same time she studied at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music and Theater in Leipzig, and in 2012 she graduated with distinction in Germany. In January 2011 she made her debut at the Palau de les Arts , Valencia, as Olga in Eugen Onegin . As Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in December 2011, she first drew attention as a Rossini interpreter.

Development as an opera singer

In 2012, Lena Belkina played the leading role in the live film adaptation of Rossini's La Cenerentola by Carlo Verdone. The screening and television broadcast of this film in over 150 countries made her internationally known. From 2012 to 2014 she was a member of the ensemble of the Vienna State Opera and appeared there as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro , Flora Bervoix in La traviata and as the second Elfe in Rusalka . Her subsequent international work initially focused on main roles in operas by Rossini. An important development step was her participation in the Rossini Opera Festival Pesaro 2014. Here she sang the extensive trouser role of Arsace in a newly revised edition of the opera Aureliano in Palmira . This production won the 2015 International Opera Award in the “Rediscovered Work” category.

Notoriety outside the bel canto compartment, gained primarily as Carmen at the Bregenz Festival in 2017 and 2018. Even with Eastern European repertoire, she was always present and presented in March 2019 at the Theater an der Wien , the title role in Tchaikovsky's rarely performed opera The Maid of Orleans is Numerous reviewers reported on this.

Opera roles and engagements (selection)

Debut in role
2010-09 Olga ( Eugene Onegin )
2011-12 Rosina ( Il barbiere di Siviglia )
2014-08 Arsace ( Aureliano in Palmira ) Rossini Opera Festival Pesaro
2015-06 Dorabella ( Così fan tutte ) Bavarian State Theater on Gärtnerplatz , Munich
2016-01 Angelina ( La Cenerentola )
2017-02 Varvara ( Katja Kabanowa )
2017-07 Carmen ( Carmen )
2018-02 Adalgisa ( Norma ) Kiev Opera
2018-02 Nicklausse ( Hoffmann's Tales ) New Tokyo National Theater
2018-04 Elena ( La donna del lago ) Lausanne Opera House
2018-11 Teseo ( Teseo ) Theater an der Wien
2019-03 Johanna ( The Maid of Orléans ) Theater an der Wien

Work as a concert singer

Lena Belkina is also happy to be engaged as an alto soloist in oratorios and symphonic works. She has sung in November 2012 at the Leipzig Gewandhaus Gustav Mahler's Kindertotenlieder and participated in March 2013 in Bonn's Beethoven Hall in Requiem by Antonin Dvorak with. In January 2015 she was the soloist in a performance of Sergei Prokofiev's film music for Ivan the Terrible. In May 2016 she took part in performances of Gustav Mahler's Second Symphony in Flensburg and Sønderborg and in September 2016 in Gustav Mahler's Lied von der Erde with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra under Frédéric Chaslin . She also performs as a singer of piano-accompanied songs by Brahms , Rachmaninow and Tchaikovsky, among others .

Discography

Sound recordings

  • Dolci Momenti / Belcanto Arias (Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti). Lena Belkina with the Munich Radio Orchestra under Alessandro De Marchi . Released in June 2015 by Sony Classical.
  • Giacomo Meyerbeer , Emma di Resburgo. Complete recording on double CD with Simone Kermes , Vivicagenaux , Lena Belkina, Thomas Walker, Manfred Hemm, Martin Vanberg, Wiener Singakademie , moderntimes_1800, directed by Andreas Stoehr. Released in October 2015 by Newplay Classical Recordings.
  • Classic Vienna , arias by Mozart, Gluck and Haydn. ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna under Andrea Sanguineti. Published by Sony Classical in June 2017.

DVD recordings

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography on the website of the singing class of Professor Roland Schubert
  2. ↑ Pietro Obiera: "Barbier" -Premiere: Like Mayflies . The West, March 16, 2012, accessed February 9, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Lena Belkina & Edgardo Rocha - Cenerentola & Ramiro. Video example from Carlo Verdone's opera film on Youtube, accessed on February 9, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Performances with Lena Belkina. Vienna State Opera, accessed on February 9, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Premiere review of Rusalka at the Vienna State Opera from Jan. 27, 2014 in "derStandard.at"
  6. ↑ http://www.operaawards.org/Winners2015.aspx List of winners at the International Opers Awards 2015 ( Memento of the original from April 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.operaawards.org
  7. ↑ Bregenz Festival opens. Music Today, July 19, 2017, accessed July 24, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Claudia Renz: Lust and passion on Lake Constance. In: Zollern-Alb-Kurier. August 12, 2018. Retrieved August 21, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Jürgen Pathy: Woman power brings the "Jungfrau von Orleans" at the Theater an der Wien a terrific success. In: Klassik enthuses. March 18, 2019, accessed on April 5, 2019 .
  10. ^ Regine Müller: Grand Opéra with Russian timbres: Tchaikovsky's "Johanna von Orleans" in the Theater an der Wien. In: Neue Musikzeitung. March 19, 2019, accessed April 5, 2019 .
  11. ^ Harald Lacina: WIEN / Theater an der Wien: THE VIRGIN OF ORLEANS. In: Online marker. March 24, 2019, accessed April 6, 2019 .
  12. ↑ a b "Maid of Orleans" in the TAW: Fire and flame for women power. In: Tyrolean daily newspaper. March 17, 2019, accessed March 17, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Leipzig Opera: Eugene Onegin in the waiting room of happiness. In: Rossignol (blog). September 12, 2010, accessed July 8, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Pierre Degott: Eugène Onégine par Mariusz Treliński, étrange et fascinant. Res Musica, September 24, 2013, accessed September 22, 2016 (French).
  15. ↑ Video document (excerpt) of Lena Belkina as Rosina in Tokyo
  16. ^ François Cavaillès: Il barbiere di Siviglia | Le barbier de Séville opéra de Gioachino Rossini (review). Anaclase, accessed September 18, 2017 (French).
  17. ^ Review in the evening newspaper from June 15, 2015
  18. ↑ Katia Kabanova, cast list and dates. Teatro Regio di Torino, accessed February 18, 2017 (Italian).
  19. ^ Luigi Paolillo: La perfetta macchina scenica di Kát'a Kabanová. In: Fermata Spettacolo. December 20, 2018, accessed December 22, 2018 (Italian).
  20. ↑ Lena Belkina - Seguidilla. Près des remparts de Séville (video document). In: YouTube. Retrieved March 29, 2019 .
  21. ↑ Bettina Boyens: Carmen without a spell. September 15, 2019, accessed September 23, 2019 .
  22. ↑ Liudmyla Monastyrska & Lena Belkina "Adalgisa! .. Oh! Rimembranza!" (Performance by Norma on February 4, 2018 in Kiev). Video document on Youtube, February 23, 2018, accessed on February 24, 2018 .
  23. ↑ David Salazar: New National Theater Toyko To Feature Dmitry Korchak in 'Les Contes d'Hoffmann'. In: Opera Wire. February 27, 2018, accessed March 2, 2018 .
  24. ↑ Bruno Rauch: Max Emanuel Cencic directs Rossini. St. Galler Tagblatt, April 23, 2018, archived from the original on April 24, 2018 ; accessed on April 23, 2018 .
  25. ↑ Ljubisa Tošic: "Teseo" at the Theater an der Wien in the bombing of revenge. In: The Standard. November 15, 2018, accessed November 16, 2018 .
  26. ^ Tomas Netopil, conductor; Lena Belkina, mezzo-soprano: Kindertotenlieder (Mahler) on Youtube. IAAC Artists, January 15, 2013, accessed September 22, 2016 .
  27. ^ Review of April 2, 2013 in the General-Anzeiger
  28. ↑ LENA BELKINA - IVAN THE TERRIBLE (audio recording of a concert in Leipzig, Jan. 2015). Youtube, accessed on February 10, 2018 (English).
  29. ^ Review of the performance of Gustav Mahler's 2nd Symphony in Flensburg on May 12, 2016, Kieler Nachrichten
  30. ↑ Frédéric Chaslin: Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde, Frédéric Chaslin, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra 2016. Audio recording in Soundcloud, accessed on February 10, 2018 .
  31. ↑ Schloss Elmau (ed.): Program of the song recital by Lena Belkina on July 27, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Belkina, Lena
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Belkyna, Elena Jurewna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian opera, concert and lied singer (mezzo-soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Tashkent , Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic