Soprano GELENA GASKAROVA was born in St.Petersburg. She graduated from St.Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire in 2008. Soloist with the Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers since 2001.
She is the Prize-winner at the International Rimsky-Korsakov Young Opera Singers' Competition (St.Petersburg, 2008, II prize), at the International Lisitsian Competition (Vladikavkaz, 2008, I prize), and International Moniuszko Competitions (Warsaw, 2010, II prize).
Her repertoire includes Maria (Benstein's West Side Story), Oxana (Tchaikovsky's Christmas Eve), Iolanta (Iolanta), Tatiana (Eugene Onegin), Liu (Puccini's Turandot), Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi), First Lady (Mozart's Die Zauberflöte), Fiordilidgi (Cosi fan tutte), Micaëla (Bizet's Carmen), Rusalka (Dvořák's Rusalka), Musetta (La bohème), and Lidochka (Moscow, Cheryomushki).
She is the Prize-winner at the International Rimsky-Korsakov Young Opera Singers' Competition (St.Petersburg, 2008, II prize), at the International Lisitsian Competition (Vladikavkaz, 2008, I prize), and International Moniuszko Competitions (Warsaw, 2010, II prize).
Her repertoire includes Maria (Benstein's West Side Story), Oxana (Tchaikovsky's Christmas Eve), Iolanta (Iolanta), Tatiana (Eugene Onegin), Liu (Puccini's Turandot), Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi), First Lady (Mozart's Die Zauberflöte), Fiordilidgi (Cosi fan tutte), Micaëla (Bizet's Carmen), Rusalka (Dvořák's Rusalka), Musetta (La bohème), and Lidochka (Moscow, Cheryomushki).
Gelena Gaskarova has performed at Teatro La Fenice, Venice, Salle Pleyel, Paris, in Valery Gergiev's Festival Rotterdam, Theatre du Capitole, Toulouse a.o.