Elena Langer is a composer of colourful, dramatic and often humorous music, familiar to audiences across Europe and America through her operatic and orchestral pieces. Elena’s 2016 hit for Welsh National Opera, Figaro Gets a Divorce (receiving a new production at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm in 2026) was described in the Daily Telegraph as “that rare thing: a modern opera that exerts an immediate emotional impact”. Her WNO follow-up, the 2018 vaudeville Rhondda Rips It Up!, was wildly popular with audiences across the UK, The Times describing it as “bursting with irreverent joy”. Her recent cantata The Dong with a Luminous Nose was warmly reviewed in The Times: “Langer manages to uncover the sadness of lost love lurking beneath the poem’s whimsy.” Her new opera To Die For [A Comedy] will be produced by the Netherlands Reisopera in Holland in 2026.

Elena Langer studied at the Tchaikovsky Conservatoire in Moscow and at the Royal Academy of Music in London.