BIOGRAPHY
Greek-Cypriot soprano Elena Patsalidou made her debut at the Semperoper Dresden in 2022/23 as Jente in the new production »Peer Gynt«, to which she will return again in 2024. In addition, she will take on the soprano part in Haydn's »Paukenmesse« for the first time with the Chursächsische Philharmonie under the direction of Matthias Grünert and will make her concert debut at the Frauenkirche Dresden and at the König Albert Theater Bad Elster. In 2024, she will also make her role debut as Pamina (Mozart's »The Magic Flute«) with Opera Classica.​
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Elena Patsalidou discovered her passion for singing at an early age and followed her dream of performing on international opera stages. She received a Bachelor's degree in Vocal Performance at the Ionian University of Corfu and a Master's degree in Opera at Dresden's Academy of Music »Carl Maria von Weber«.
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On stage she appeared, among others, as Musetta (Puccini's »La Bohème«), Valencienne (Lehár's »The Merry Widow«), Clorinda (Rossini's »La Cenerentola«), Serpina (Pergolesi's »The Maid turned Mistress«), Frasquita (Bizet's »Carmen«), Giannetta (Donizetti's »The elixir of love«), Princess Mi (Lehár's »The land of smiles«), Barbarina (Mozart's »The Marriage of Figaro«), Echo (R. Strauss »Ariadne on Naxos«), Sand- / Taumännchen (Humperdinck's »Hansel and Gretel«), Diana (Offenbach's »Orpheus in the underworld«), as well as in the title role in Purcell's »Dido and Aeneas«. In 2023 she made her role debut as Papagena (Mozart's »The Magic Flute«) with the Thuringia Philharmonic Orchestra at Friedenstein Castle as part of the »Friedenstein Open-Air« festival.
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In addition to her operatic activities, Elena Patsalidou also maintains an extensive concert and Lied repertoire. She has sang, among others, the Coronation Mass (Mozart), Vespro della Beata Vergine (Monteverdi), Stabat Mater (Pergolesi), Gloria (Vivaldi), Oratorio de Noël (Saint-Saëns) and Requiem (Fauré). As part of the Ars Augusta CD project »Song of Hellas« to mark 200 years after the Greek revolution, she recorded a selection of Philhellenic songs by F. Schubert, J. Coulthard and G. Kasassoglou in 2021.
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As a soloist she has worked with opera houses and organisations such as Opera Classica, Landesbühnen Sachsen, the Mittelsächsisches Theater, the Schönebeck Operetta Summer, the Kyrenia Opera, the Nicosia Municipal Theater and the Opernwerkstatt am Rhein. She also sang at various concerts and performances with Dresden State Operetta Orchestra, Mitteldeutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Jena Philharmonic, Dresden Symphony Orchestra, Cyprus Symphony Orchestra, Lusatian Baroque Ensemble, Musica Sancta Ensemble, Virtuosi Brunenses, Löcknitz Mandolin Orchestra and Rhein-Main Philharmonic Orchestra, among others.
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Elena Patsalidou has performed at various festivals, such as the Silesian Music Festival, the Rheinfelden Castle Festival, the International Kypria Festival, the Festival of Sacred Music of Patmos, the »Gegen den Strom« in Bad Ems and the »Kommen und Gehen« in Zittau.
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On tour she has performed in Italy (Basilica di San Marco, Venice), Austria (Altes Rathaus Vienna, Congress Center Villach), Armenia (Jerevan Opera Theater), Serbia (Yugoslav Drama Theater Belgrade) and Poland (Zdrojowy Teatr Animacji). At the Salzburg Easter Festival 2015 she sang in Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci with the Staatsopernchor Dresden under the direction of Christian Thielemann. With the Bavarian ensemble I Virtuosi Ambulanti she sang in 2020 as a soloist in the exclusive project »Belcanto in Bayern« in Munich.
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She has worked with various conductors such as Jan Michael Horstmann, Thomas Herzog, Markus Huber, Raoul Grüneis, Alkis Baltas and Stanley Ritchie. She received important artistic impulses from Professor KS Matthias Henneberg and through master classes with Emma Kirkby, Simone Kermes, Christophe Rousset, Walter Moore, Barbara Bonney and Janet Williams.
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Elena Patsalidou is a 2022 scholarship recipient from the Richard Wagner Association in Dresden. She was the 1st Prize winner at the 2019 Kyrenia Opera Vocal Competition and won 3rd prize at the 2013 International Giulio Perotti Vocal Competition. She was also a semi-finalist at the prestigious International Singing Competition Competizione dell' Opera 2019 in Sochi.