Lena Belkina, mezzosoprano
Lena Belkina, born in Tashkent Ukraine, studied singing at the music academies in Kiev and Leipzig. In 2008
she won the first prize of the International Borys Romanovich Hmyria Competition.
For 3 years she was an ensemble-member of the Leipzig Opera, where she worked in several productions with the famous stage director Peter Konwitschny. She sang several recitals at Oper Leipzig with songs by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Mahler, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov with enthusiastic response.
Lena Belkina sang the opening concert at the Handel Festival Halle which was broadcasted live by theGerman radio. She was also a guest at the Bach Festival Leipzig and the Salzburg Festival (Riccardo Muti, Ivor Bolton).In January 2011 she performed at the Palau de les Arts Valenciaas Olga in Eugene Onegin recorded by UNITEL (Omer Meir Wellber, Mariusz Treliński).
In the spring of 2011 Lena Belkina performed with the Munich Bach Choir and Bach Orchestraa highly considered St. John Passion, followed by a concert invitation from the International Bach Academy in Stuttgart. At the Vienna Konzerthaus she was heard in a concert performance of a rarely performed opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer. In spring 2013 she will sing Antonin Dvorak’s Requiem with the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn.
The mezzo-soprano was engaged as Rosinaat the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in a new production of Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia in December 2011 (Axel Kober, Claus Guth).
Lena Belkina is an ensemble-member of the Vienna State Opera where she will make her debut as Cherubino in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro in October 2012. In the next seasons at the Vienna State Opera she will expand her repertoire with roles such as Angelina (Cenerentola), Rosina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) Annio (La Clemenza di Tito), Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier) and Composer (Ariadne auf Naxos).
In October 2013 the artist will make her debut at the New National Theatre Tokyo in a production of Le nozze di Figaro in the role of Cherubino.
For 3 years she was an ensemble-member of the Leipzig Opera, where she worked in several productions with the famous stage director Peter Konwitschny. She sang several recitals at Oper Leipzig with songs by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Mahler, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov with enthusiastic response.
Lena Belkina sang the opening concert at the Handel Festival Halle which was broadcasted live by theGerman radio. She was also a guest at the Bach Festival Leipzig and the Salzburg Festival (Riccardo Muti, Ivor Bolton).In January 2011 she performed at the Palau de les Arts Valenciaas Olga in Eugene Onegin recorded by UNITEL (Omer Meir Wellber, Mariusz Treliński).
In the spring of 2011 Lena Belkina performed with the Munich Bach Choir and Bach Orchestraa highly considered St. John Passion, followed by a concert invitation from the International Bach Academy in Stuttgart. At the Vienna Konzerthaus she was heard in a concert performance of a rarely performed opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer. In spring 2013 she will sing Antonin Dvorak’s Requiem with the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn.
The mezzo-soprano was engaged as Rosinaat the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in a new production of Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia in December 2011 (Axel Kober, Claus Guth).
Lena Belkina is an ensemble-member of the Vienna State Opera where she will make her debut as Cherubino in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro in October 2012. In the next seasons at the Vienna State Opera she will expand her repertoire with roles such as Angelina (Cenerentola), Rosina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) Annio (La Clemenza di Tito), Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier) and Composer (Ariadne auf Naxos).
In October 2013 the artist will make her debut at the New National Theatre Tokyo in a production of Le nozze di Figaro in the role of Cherubino.
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