Elena Guseva studied at the Shostakovich College of Music in the Choirmaster Department. She was a student at the Moscow Conservatoire of Music, where she studied with Professor Galina Pisarenko and received a Diploma of Excellence.
Guseva was a soloist of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre. There she sang the parts of Tatiana in Eugene Onegin, Antonia in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Mimi in La Boheme, Micaela in Carmen, Natasha Rostova in War and Peace, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Cio-Cio-san in Madama Butterfly, Donna Leonora in La Forza del Destino and Liza in The Queen of Spades.
In 2017, she made her debut at the Staatsoper Hamburg as Yaroslavna in Prince Igor. In the 2017/18 Season, she sang with huge success Polina in a new production of The Gambler at the Wiener Staatsoper, Cio-Cio-San in Hamburg and the Wiener Staatsoper, Mimì at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the title role in a new production of Jenufa in Moscow and Liza at the Savonlinna Festival.
In the 2018/19 Season, she sang Aida in Prague; the title role of Tchaikovsky’s The Enchantress in Lyon; Desdemona in a new production of Otello in Moscow; Cio-Cio-San, Aida and Desdemona at the Wiener Staatsoper; Tatiana in Hamburg, and Aida at the Festival in Sanxay.
Guseva’s 2019/20 Season highlights included, Tatiana and Iolanta at the Bolshoi Thetre Moscow, Cio-Cio-San at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and in Hamburg, as well as Tosca in Lyon.
2020/21 brought La Cenerentola in Geneva, Tosca and Donna Elvira in Dresden, Tosca at the Bolshoi Theatre and Aida in Sydney.
Key engagements of the 2021/22 Season included Liù and Marietta in Die tote Stadt at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Liza and Tosca at the Bolshoi Theatre, Tatiana and Liza at the Wiener Staatsoper, Liza at Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Tosca and Foreign Princess in Rusalka in Dresden and Cio-Cio-San at Deutsche Oper Berin and the Bregenz Festival.
In the following year, she sang Liza and Tosca at the Bolshoi Theatre, Foreign Princess in Rusalka in Dresden and the Teatro alla Scala, Mimi and Tatiana in Munich, Giorgetta in Il tabarro and Suor Angelica in a new production of Il trittico in Hamburg and Cio-Cio-San at the Bregenz Festival.
2023/24 season highlights included Liza in Valencia and Lyon, Liza and Elisabetta in Don Carlo in Dresden, Cio-Cio-San in Hamburg, and Aida in Munich.
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