Elena, a 2018 Curtis Institute of Music graduate, made her professional opera debut with Opera Philadelphia portraying the role of Doris Parker in Charlie Parker’s Yardbird, at the Apollo Theatre in New York City. She reprised the role in her English National Opera debut.
On the operatic stage, engagements include Mimi in La Boheme, Violetta Valéry in La Traviata, Iolanta in Iolanta, Rusalka in Rusalka with West Australian Opera, Gilda in Rigoletto with New Zealand Opera. Elena will be joining Queensland Opera this season as Mimì in La Boheme.
On the symphonic concert stage, seasons include performances with The Philadelphia Orchestra appearing as Rusalka (Rusalka) , Tatyana (Eugene Onegin) and Berlioz’s Les Nuit D’ete. Elena made her Main Stage Carnegie Hall debut in Schubert’s Mass in G Major and Konzerthaushaus Berlin debut premiering Canti Della Natura by Grammy award winning composer Richard Danielpour. She has performed Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem and Britten’s War Requiem with Maestro Asher Fisch and the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Juliet in Tchaikovsky’s Romeo & Juliet with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. Maria in Bernstein’s West Side Story with Reno Symphony Orchestra, and guest appearances with Wyoming Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Indepence Sinfonia and Cleveland Chamber Music Society.