She first worked with OperaMachine and its Artistic Director, Stephen Tiller, in London In July 2011 singing Magda Sorel in Menotti’s The Consul. An earlier pilot project in 2010 took place in a derelict warehouse in Shoreditch. Both were site-specific shows with a chorus of migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers.
Lesya Alekseyeva is a rising star and permanent principle soloist at the Ukrainian National Opera, based at the Taras Shevchenko Opera House in Kiev. There she sang such roles as Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana, Cio-Cio-San in Madame Butterfly, title roles in Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta and in Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, Tatiana in Eugeny Onegin, Lisa in Pique Dame, Micaёla in Carmen, Aida in Aida, Oxana in Zaporozets Across the Danube by Gulak-Artemovsky and Natalka in Natalka-Poltavka by Lysenko. She has also sung in many concerts given by the National Opera House of Ukraine.
In December 2012 she sang Senta in Wagner’s “Der Fliegende Hollaender”, directed by Mara Kurotschka and conducted by Mikhail Sinkevich of the Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg). It began its life at the Donbass Opera (Donetsk, Ukraine) and then toured Germany and Ukraine.
In 2013-2014 she sang Sieglinde in Die Walkuere at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg , Senta in Der Fliegende Hollaender and Madama Butterfly. In 2015, Manon Lescaut at the Mikhailovsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, then, in 2016, back at the Mariinsky Theatre, Stephana in Siberia by Giordano .She is currently preparing to sing the title role in Salome by Richard Strauss.
