Elena Stikhina completed her vocal studies in 2012 at the Moscow State Conservatory. In 2014, she won first prize at the Competizione dell’Opera in Linz, and in 2016, she received both the Audience Prize and the CulturArte Prize at Plácido Domingo’s Operalia competition. Since then, guest engagements have taken her to numerous renowned opera houses around the world. In the 2017/18 season, she performed Mimì (La bohème) and Tosca at the Berlin State Opera, Leonora (Il trovatore) at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Senta (Der fliegende Holländer) at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Tatiana (Eugene Onegin) at the Paris Opéra, and Tosca at Boston Lyric Opera. In the 2018/19 season, she appeared as Leonora (La forza del destino) at the Semperoper Dresden, in the title role of Suor Angelica at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and as Brünnhilde (Siegfried) and Gutrune (Götterdämmerung) in concert performances in Paris. Further engagements that season included her debut at Dutch National Opera as Cio-Cio-San (Madama Butterfly) and appearances as Leonora at the Paris Opéra. She made her Salzburg Festival debut as Médée in summer 2019 and returned there in 2021 for Britten’s War Requiem. In the 2019/20 season, she sang Jaroslavna in a new production of Prince Igor at the Paris Opéra, made her debut in Geneva as Aida, and appeared as Tosca, Salome, Donna Leonora, and Senta at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg. There, in the 2020/21 season, she also performed as Renata (The Fiery Angel), Aida, Cio-Cio-San, Tosca, Donna Elvira, and Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus). In February 2021, she sang Salome at La Scala in Milan. In the 2022/23 season, she sang Aida at the Salzburg Festival and at the Royal Opera House in London, as well as Floria Tosca at the Paris Opéra.