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Elena
Bocharova
Mezzosoprano
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Elena Bocharova performing her first Amneris this past winter with Opera Carolina was a "formidable opponent to Aida, her rival in love. Letting fly with vibrant high notes, belting out gusty low ones, she filled Amneris' steely resolve". Last season she performed her first Dalila for Dayton Opera last spring "with assurance and beauty of tone...her voice blooms at both top and bottom and she uses it to dramatic effect. In fact she sounded as fresh and powerful at the end of the opera as she had at the beginning!" Last season she also performed the title role in Carmen with the Semperoper,Dresden
where she debuted as Suzuki. She sang Carmen in a concert performance in Koeln, the host city, to commemorate the opening of the World Cup Soccer match last June.
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The Russian born Ms. Bocharova, also performed Carmen with Dayton Opera "seething with sensuality"
with a "voice of enveloping
warmth" and with a "certainty of self that carries its own magnetism",
and just prior with a
"thrillingly gutsy mezzo" for the Lyric Opera of Kansas City. Spring 2006 witnessed her "consistently appealing Suzuki sung with warmth and as much color as the incredible sets" in the stunning Opera Omaha production of Butterfly. She also was labeled stunning and exquisite
in her appearance with Madison Opera for a gala concert last summer. In spring 2005 she
made her Opera de Paris debut
in Boris Godunov. She also performed at a Richard Tucker Music Foundation
concert in New York City and was
Suzuki for Tulsa Opera's opening Butterfly last season, where
she also presented a recital of Russian songs.
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2004-05
began with concerts at La Monnaie in Brussels
and in Antwerp.
Summer
2004 had her performing in a Richard Tucker Gala and debuting in Brussels as mezzo soloist in a gala
French concert with Jose Van Dam.
Just prior she was a “rich voiced mezzo”; as Cornelia
in Utah Opera's Julius Caesar. In fall 2003 she performed at the Richard Tucker Memorial Gala at Avery Fisher Hall, and in
spring 2003 she sang her first Richard Tucker Music Foundation concert in Stamford, Connecticut
“impressing with a rich mezzo voice that was very expressive and
full of beautiful, plummy tone”. Also in spring 2003 she debuted as
a “sensual and vocally attractive” Carmen with New York City Opera at
Lincoln Center, preceded by her “vivacious
Olga” in Hawaii Opera's Eugene Onegin. A graduate of the Adler
Fellowship program, she debuted with the San Francisco Opera in 1999
as Flosshilde in Das Rheingold
and Götterdämmerung. She has also appeared as Dunyasha in The Tsar’s
Bride.
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Ms.
Bocharova has also appeared in a number of San Francisco Opera and Opera Center productions including La
Calisto, The Magic Flute (Third Lady)
And
Dorabella in Cosi fan
Tutte Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus
and Dido in
Dido and Aeneas. On the concert stage Ms. Bocharova
has performed varied works including the Mozart Requiem, the
Beethoven Ninth Symphony and Handel’s Messiah
in San Francisco’s
Davies Symphony Hall. She has
recorded
Maggie in The Gift of
the Magi (world premiere).
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A
native of Magadan, Russia, Ms. Bocharova
received her Bachelor’s degree from the San Francisco Conservatory
of Music and was awarded first prize in the Bay Area Opera League
Competition and the San Francisco Concerto Competition. She was a 2004 major award winner
of the Gerda Lissner Foundation and in 2003 was a winner of a Sergio
Franchi Foundation Grant.
Ms. Bocharova next performs Amneris at the Savonlinna Festival
this summer and in concerts in Bremen in 2009. Her first Azucena is scheduled for 2008-09 for Opera Southern New Zealand. She will also sing the Verdi Requiem with the Bergen Philharmaonic (Maestro Litton). Debuts in Firenze and a return to Dresden are programmed for future seasons.
Roles in preparation also include the Principessa in Adriana Lecouvreur and Santuzza in 2008-09.
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