Elena Pankratova

A combination of musical sensitivity, superlative technique and strong stage presence marks Elena Pankratova out from among a new generation of dramatic sopranos. The spectacular success of her first Dyer's Wife in Strauss’s Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Florence May Festival in 2010 under the direction of Maestro Zubin Mehta proved an important breakthrough for her career that also succeeded in invitations from such renowned theatres as La Scala (2012), Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires (2013), the Bavarian State Opera (2013, 2014, 2017), the Royal Opera House Covent Garden (2014), the Royal Danish Opera (2015) and the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden (2018). Her rendition of the Dyer’s Wife in all of these theatres was met with enormous success. Elena Pankratova is the first Russian drama