Elena Pankratova is a Russian soprano, born in Yekaterinburg. She initially studied conducting and piano before graduating as a singer and actress from the Saint Petersburg Conservatory.[1] In the 2013/14 season she made her Royal Opera House debut as Barak's Wife in Richard Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten, a role she sang in 2012 at the premiere of the same production at La Scala, Milan.[2] As of 2018, for third year in a row, Pankratova sung as Kundry in Parsifal.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Biography Mariinsky Theatre". Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  2. ↑ "Elena Pankratova". www.roh.org.uk. Royal Opera House. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  3. ↑ "Laufenbergs Parsifal overtuigend hernomen". Opéra Magazine (in Dutch). 9 August 2018.
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