Elizabeth Sikora
Elizabeth Sikora’s numerous roles for the Royal Opera, Covent Garden have included Annina La Traviata, Third Lady Die Zauberflöte, Filipyevna Eugene Onegin, Yetta Zimmerman Sophie’s Choice (Nicholas Maw), Spirit of Antonia’s Mother Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Innkeeper’s Wife The Cunning Little Vixen, Maid Jenůfa, Praskowia The Merry Widow, Old Woman The Greek Passion, Feklusha Kátya Kabanová, Servant Die Ägyptische Helena, Voice from Above Die Frau ohne Schatten, Masha Pique Dame, Giovanna Rigoletto, Schwertleite and Rossweise Die Walküre, Mother Superior Cyrano de Bergerac, and Maddalena Linda di Chamounix. She has sung under conductors including Antonio Pappano, Barry Wordsworth, Jiři Bělohlávek, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Sir Edward Downes, Sir Mark Elder, Daniele Gatti, Valery Gergiev, Bernard Haitink, Richard Hickox, Sir Charles Mackerras, André Previn, Sir Simon Rattle and Christian Thielemann.
Elizabeth Sikora’s international débuts have included the Prole Woman in 1984 by Lorin Maazel at Teatro all Scala, Milan, the Forester’s Wife Cunning Little Vixen at the Grand Théâtre de Genève where she returned to sing Mrs Sedley Peter Grimes, and Spirit of Antonia’s Mother Les Contes d’Hoffmann at the Nationale Reisopera. For her début at English National Opera she sang Susanna Khovanschina, and for Scottish Opera the Swiss Grandmother Death of Klinghoffer at the Edinburgh Festival. She sang Eunice Hubbel A Streetcar Named Desire under André Previn with the London Symphony Orchestra. With the Chelsea Opera Group she has sung the roles of Mamma Lucia Cavalleria rusticana, Countess de Coigny Andrea Chénier and Madame de la Haltière Cendrillon. She made her role debut as Marcellina Le nozze di Figaro at the Festival Rotas dos Monumentos in Portugal.
Elizabeth Sikora also has a long association with the Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, for whom she has sung in Mayerling, Masquerade, Les Noces, Still Life at the Penguin Café, There Where She Loves and Le Tricorne. She also performed Mahler’s Ruckert Lieder for Resolution – a new work choreographed by Wayne Eagling for English National Ballet
Elizabeth Sikora has a busy concert diary and her extensive repertoire includes all the standard works including Bach St Matthew Passion, Beethoven Missa Solemnis, Dvorak Stabat Mater and Requiem, Elgar Dream of Gerontius and Sea Pictures, Mahler Kindertotenlieder and Das Lied von der Erde, Janáçek Glagolitic Mass, Mendelssohn Elijah, Rossini Stabat Mater, Schubert Mass in A flat, Tippet A Child of Our Time and Verdi Requiem.
Elizabeth Sikora’s recordings include Jenůfa for Warner Classics and DVD’s include Mayerling and Les Noces with the Royal Ballet and Giovanna Rigoletto with the Royal Opera.
Elizabeth Sikora’s recent engagements include Maestra delle novizie Suor Angelica, Giovanna Rigoletto, and Dubious Old Lady The Gambler for the Royal Opera, The Wife The Lion's Face by Elena Langer and Glyn Maxwell for The Opera Group in the Linbury Studio Theatre, Katarina Schratt Mayerling for The Royal Ballet in Japan, and further performances of Ruckert Lieder for the ballet Resolution for English National Ballet. In concert she has also sung The Nurse Roméo et Juliette and Les Noces for NPS Radio at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, The Mother Mavra (Stravinsky) with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and La Patronne Margot le Rouge (Delius) with BBC Symphony Orchestra, both broadcast by BBC Radio 3.
Elizabeth Sikora’s future engagements include a return to the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden to sing Teresa La sonnambula, Giovanna Rigoletto, Les Noces for the Royal Ballet and Filipyevna Eugene Onegin for Opera Holland Park.
November 2011
