Elena Souliotis

Elena Souliotis (also Suliotis ) ( born May 28, 1943 in Athens, † December 4, 2004 in Florence) was a Greek soprano. With two years she suffered meningitis and afterwards was hard of hearing in one ear. When she was five years old, her parents emigrated - the mother was Greek, the father Russe - to Buenos Aires. Your vocal training she received there with Alfredo Bontà, Jascha Galperin and Bianca Lietti. In 1962, she was a student of Mercedes Llopart to Milan.

1964 debuted Souliotis in Naples as Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana, followed by engagements at the big houses such as La Scala in Milan in 1966 as Abigail in Nabucco or Donizetti's Anna Bolena New York. She was considered the next Callas, but the success did not stop. She tried then in a second career as a mezzo-soprano, but did not reach the success of the beginning.

The mid-1970s she married. Marriage, from the source of her daughter, Barbara, was divorced.

Souliotis was known for her lyric- dramatic voice with remarkable individuality and their eye-catching stage presence. For the last time they saw and heard in 2000 in Stuttgart as Old Countess in Tchaikovsky's Pique Dame.