Elena Fink

The soprano Elena Fink studied at the conservatories in Karlsruhe and Cologne. She then went on to a permanent engagement in Wuppertal. In addition to many role debuts, she has been successful as Violetta (»La traviata«), Susanna (»Le nozze di Figaro«) and Lakmé. Numerous prizes and awards as well as a repertoire of over 50 roles mark the career of the coloratura soprano.

In 2010, she was nominated »Opera Singer of the Year« in North Rhine-Westphalia for her interpretation of Proserpina in the opera of the same name by Wolfgang Rihm. The soprano has appeared in various roles throughout Europe, including at the Semperoper Dresden, the Tonhalle Zurich, the Gärtnerplatztheater Munich, the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Staatsoper Hamburg, the Komische Oper Berlin, as well as in Bonn, Wuppertal, Leipzig, Coburg, Dessau, Brussels, Antwerp, Zurich and Lucerne. One of her signature roles was the Queen of the Night (»Die Zauberflöte»).

From 2011, Elena Fink expanded her repertoire to include more dramatic roles such as Elettra (»Idomeneo«) and Rosalinde (»Die Fledermaus«), with which she made a guest appearance at the Lucerne Theatre. At the Volkstheater Rostock she debuted as Konstanze (»Die Entführung aus dem Serail«) and in Düsseldorf she made her debut as Najade (»Ariadne auf Naxos«). Here she then also appeared as Konstanze. Further engagements took her to the Anhaltisches Theater Dessau as Gretel (»Hänsel und Gretel«) and Frau Fluth (»Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor«), to the Hanover State Opera and the Bremen Theatre as Cunegonde (»Candide«) and to Kiel as Fiakermilli (»Arabella«). She also sang the role of Annabella in the world premiere of Anno Schreier’s »Schade, dass sie eine Hure war« at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf. In the 2019/2020 season, she made guest appearances as Rosalinde at the Kiel Opera and as Blanche in André Previn’s »A streetcar named desire« at the Bremerhaven Theatre, among others. Other guest engagements have included La Princesse in Glass’ »L’Orphée« at the Anhaltisches Theater Dessau and Anita in »Jonny spielt auf« at the Theater Vorpommern.

As a sought-after concert singer, the singer has given guest performances in Berlin, Cologne, Essen, Luxembourg, at the Alte Oper Frankfurt and at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden. Further concert engagements have taken her to Finland, Turkey, Antwerp and the Tonhalle Zurich. In addition to classical opera literature, she interprets oratorios and, time and again, modern music, such as Daam’s »Canciones«, Sciarrino’s »Macbeth« or Riehm’s »Proserpina«. Recordings and CD productions under labels such as Deutsche Welle, Universal, SWR, WDR and under conductors such as Peter Falk, Cornelius Meister, Hans-E. Zimmer, Hermann Max and Toshiyuki Kamioka document her artistic work.