• Prize-winner at the XVII festival Theatres of
St Petersburg for Children in the category “Best Female
Role” for her performance as Little Red Riding Hood in Mikhail
Rauchwerger’s opera Little Red Riding Hood
• Recipient of
the Special Prize and a diploma for the best performance of
a Bulgarian song at the XIII International Boris Christoff Young
Opera Singers’ Competition (Sofia, Bulgaria, 2004)
• Recipient of an
award from the St Petersburg Government “For a significant
contribution to the development of culture and the arts” (2010)
Larisa Yelina graduated with distinction from the vocals and
the composition and history of music faculty of the Nizhny Novgorod
Glinka State Conservatoire in 2000. As a student, she worked as
a soloist with the Municipal Opera Theatre in Arzamas, where she
made her debut as Leonora (Il trovatore).
From 1997–2000 she
appeared in concerts with the Nizhny Novgorod State Philharmonic,
performing with the Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Alexander
Sulsky, Honoured Artist of Russia.
From 2000–2006 she was a soloist
with the Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers.
She has taken part
in master classes given by Vladimir Atlantov and Elena Obraztsova. Since
the 2006–2007 season she has been a soloist with
the St Petersburg State Philharmonic for Children and Young People.
Her repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre includes:
the Golden Cockerel (The Golden Cockerel)
Giannetta
(L’elisir d’amore)
a Girl in Love (Il tabarro)
Suor Osmina (Suor Angelica)
Barbarina (Le nozze di
Figaro)
the Waldvogel (Siegfried)
Flora (The Turn of
the Screw)
Tytania (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
In November 2009 she performed recitals on tour to Japan (Tokyo and Nagano).
In March 2010 she took part in the Mariinsky Theatre’s tour
to Hong Kong, where she performed the role of Flora in the opera
The Turn of the Screw under the baton of Valery Gergiev.
In October 2011 she took part in a concert performed for
the Japanese imperial family in Tokyo.