Yelizaveta Zakharova was born in St Petersburg. In 2003 she
graduated from the vocals faculty of the St Petersburg State
Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire, where she also completed a post-graduate study
in 2008.
Since 2002 she has been a soloist with the Mariinsky
Academy of Young Singers.
At the Mariinsky Theatre, she made her debut
as Tkachikha in the opera the Tale of Tsar Saltan.
She was the first performer of the role of the Aunt
in Anastasia Bespalova’s opera Shponka and His Aunt.
Her repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre includes:
Red Spring (The Snow Maiden)
Fekla (The
Marriage)
Sister-in-Law (May Night)
Tkachikha (The
Tale of Tsar Saltan)
Smeraldina (The Love for Three Oranges)
Aunt (Shponka and His Aunt)
Suzuki (Madama Butterfly
Princess Eboli (Don Carlo)
Third Lady (Die
Zauberflцte)
Rossweisse (Die Walkьre)
Jeћibaba
(Rusalka by Antonнn Dvoшбk)
Her repertoire also includes: Ganna (May Night), Lyubasha
(The Tsar’s Bride), Marta (Iolanta), Polina
(The Queen of Spades), Neighbour (Mavra), Maddalena
(Rigoletto), Azucena (Il trovatore), Siйbel
(Faust), Mrs Grose (The Turn of the Screw) and Erda
(Das Rheingold).