Following a Star: Elena Stikhina as Salome

#Following_a_Star #Stars_of_the_White_Nights Welcome the new issue of the video diary, portraying the Mariinsky stars during the “Stars of the White Nights“ festival. This time we are following the fantastic Elena Stikhina in her signature role of Salome in the eponymous opera by Richard Strauss staged by Marat Gatsalov. How to combine tenderness with cruelty and how to overcome the fear of heights? Watch to know Elena’s answer. ------------------- Elena Stikhina was born in Sverdlovsk Oblast. In 2012 she graduated from the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory (class of Larisa Rudakova). Trained at the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Singing Centre under Makvala Kasrashvili (2012–2014). Since 2014 she has been a soloist of the State Primorsky Opera and Ballet Theatre (now the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre).