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Ekaterina Lekhina

Soprano

  • Ekaterina Lekhina, stiff and skittish as Olympia, grew ever more secure in her diamond-like coloratura.
    Evening Standard

  • Ekaterina Lekhina was born in Samara, Russia, where she studied choral conducting. She studied singing in Moscow with Professor S. Nesterenko and won first prize in the Operalia Singing Competition in 2006.

    Her first engagement was in 2006 with the Vienna Volksoper where she sang Madame Herz in Mozart’s Der Schauspieldirektor and also the Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte. With this role she appeared also in the Staatsoper, Munich, Deutsche Oper and Staatsoper in Berlin, Staatsoper Hanover, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Hong Kong, Beijing, Tel-Aviv and Treviso.

    Her first Olympia (Les contes d’Hoffmann) was at Klosterneuburg, Austria in 2006, followed by engagements for the same role in Tel Aviv (2007), Vienna Volksoper (2007) and Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London (2008).

    In May 2008 she sang the role of Musetta (La Boheme) at the Teatro Municipal, Santiago de Chile and in the summer 2008 she made her debut with the title role in Mozart’s Zaide at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. 

    Other engagements have included Olympia at the Volksoper and in Monte-Carlo where she also sang Gilda (Rigoletto). She took part in a concert including excerpts from I Capuleti e I Montecchi and Ariadne auf Naxos (Zerbinetta’s aria) at the Teatro Municipal, Santiago de Chile, the title role in L’arbore di Diana by Martin y Soler at the Teatro Real, Madrid and gave a solo recital at St. John’s Smith Square, London as part of the Rosenblatt recital series.

    She has sung Clemence in the recording of L’amour de loin by Kaija Saariaho for Harmonia Mundi under Kent Nagano which won the ‘Diapason d’Or’ Prize in France and a Grammy Award in the USA. It was also filmed in 2010.

    Ekaterina Lekhina is represented by Rayfield Allied inexclusively.
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    • Olympia in Les Contes d’Hoffmann: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
      (November / December 2008)

      Ekaterina Lekhina’s Olympia doll (a role to be shared with Vassiliki Karayanni) whirred and jittered with amusing skill.
      The Times
      On to the ladies. Olympia is brilliantly dispatched by Ekaterina Lekhina, a newcomer to Covent Garden, every inch the doll who comes to life when Hoffmann dons his rose-tinted specs.
      The Stage
      Hoffmann's three loves are taken by different singers: Ekaterina Lekhina as Olympia, whose mechanical movements were a delight and her well-known aria displayed a peach of a coloratura technique.
      The Opera Critic
      Ekaterina Lekhina, stiff and skittish as Olympia, grew ever more secure in her diamond-like coloratura.
      Evening Standard
      Ekaterina Lekhina was a fearless Olympia, almost immaculate in her pitching of the high notes...
      MusicalCriticism.com
      In the first act Ekaterina Lekhina scaled the dizzying heights of Offenbach's coloratura with aplomb as the doll Olympia...
      Music OMH
      Olympia was Ekaterina Lekhina, making her Covent Garden debut; she was a totally credible doll who only comes to life when Hoffmann puts on his rose-tinted spectacles. Her top notes were laser-bright and she is a soprano of fearsome agility and accuracy.
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