Elena Zhidkova (Mezzo soprano)
Russian mezzo-soprano, Elena Zhidkova, made her debut at the Deutsche Oper
Berlin as Olga in Eugene Onegin in the production of Götz Friedrich. Career
highlights include appearances at the Bayreuth Festival, several concerts with
Claudio Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic, the Edinburgh and Salzburg Eastern
Festivals. She also sang in Handel´s Jephta with Nikolaus Harnoncourt at the
Berlin Philharmonie.
In 2004 she made an acclaimed debut as Waltraute (Götterdämmerung) at the
Teatro Real Madrid, where she returned to sing Brangäne (Tristan und Isolde). At
the New National Theatre Tokyo, Elena Zhidkova sang Dorabella (Cosi fan tutte)
in 2005 and returned to perform Octavian (Rosenkavalier) and Fricka (Rheingold,
Walküre). At Semperoper Dresden she sang Venus (Tannhäuser).
In 2008 she was Judith in an extremely successful production of Bartók´s Duke
Bluebeard´s Castle at La Scala Milan , a role, which she recently performed with
Valery Gergiev and the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Hall
London.
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