Elena Galitskaya
French-Russian soprano Elena Galitskaya is renowned for her delicate timbre, expressive versatility and her ability to embody characters, with a repertoire spanning from Mozart and Gluck to Strauss, Rossini, and Russian music. She is now based in Italy and France.
A graduate of the Moscow Academy of Choral Arts, she made her operatic debut at Opéra de Lyon in 2009 and has since returned regularly, performing roles such as Despina (Così fan tutte), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Frasquita (Carmen), Ilia (Idomeneo) and Euridice (Orfeo ed Euridice). She also appeared as Laurie Moss in Copland’s The Tender Land and the Italian Singer in Capriccio. In recent seasons, she triumphed at Opéra Royal de Wallonie in the role of Fiorilla (Il turco in Italia), a role that she had already performed successfully at the Opéra de Dijon in Christopher Alden’s production.
Recent roles include Amour in Orfeo ed Euridice at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées (Paris) and Palau de les Arts (Valencia), conducted by Thomas Hengelbrock and Gianluca Capuano; Pauline in La Vie Parisienne at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées (Paris), directed by Christian Lacroix; and other acclaimed performances in French theatres in Rouen, Tours and Montpellier, as well as Frasquita (Carmen) at Opéra Royal de Wallonie. Previously, she made her debut at Oper Graz as Contessa di Folleville in Il viaggio a Reims. She also sang Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) at Teatro Verdi in Trieste and Teatro Bellini in Catania, Servilia in La clemenza di Tito at Drottningholms Slottsteater in Sweden, Micaela (Carmen) in Dijon and Lisette in La rondine at Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse. Elena also made her opera debut at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence as Echo in Katie Mitchell’s new production of Ariadne auf Naxos, a role she subsequently performed in the same production at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées.
Her artistic collaborations include conductors such as Thomas Hengelbrock, Christophe Rousset, Gianpaolo Bisanti, Bertrand de Billy, Marc Albrecht, Jérémy Rhorer, Paolo Arrivabeni, Oksana Lyniv and others. She has worked with prestigious companies including La Monnaie, Theater an der Wien, Oper Graz, Teatro Verdi in Trieste, Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, Drottningholms Slottsteater and Opéra National de Lorraine. A keen recitalist, Elena has sung lieder by Debussy, Fauré, Duparc, Poulenc, Strauss and Wolf, as well as songs by Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff and Rimsky-Korsakov, at venues including the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and Opéra National de Lorraine, as well as in Paris, Nantes, Brussels and Bratislava.
On the concert platform, Elena has performed Mozart’s Requiem, Fauré’s Requiem, Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle and Bach’s St John Passion. She has also worked regularly with the Moscow Virtuosi and Vladimir Spivakov. In 2011, she was awarded a prize at the prestigious Queen Elisabeth International Competition and received the Audience Prize in Brussels. She also became an HSBC Laureate of the Académie Européenne de Musique of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence.
She recently sang Jemmy (Guillaume Tell) and Sophie (Werther) in two acclaimed productions at Opéra Royal de Wallonie, where she subsequently returned for performances of Il cappello di paglia di Firenze and Pikovaya Dama.
Upcoming engagements include Fiorilla in a concert performance of Il turco in Italia at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow, conducted by Dmitry Korchak. In March 2027, she will make her role debut as Alcina in Handel’s Alcina at Teatro Lirico di Cagliari.
