Carmen

Elīna Garanča was born in Riga and studied at the Latvian Academy of Music. She won the Mirjam Helin Singing Competition in 1999 and was a finalist in the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition in 2001. After engagements in Meiningen and Frankfurt, she quickly established herself as one of the leading mezzo-sopranos internationally with performances at renowned opera and concert houses. She has appeared, among others, at the Vienna State Opera, the Salzburg Festival, the Baden-Baden Festival House, the Bavarian and Berlin State Operas, as well as at the Opéra national de Paris. In 2003, she became a member of the Vienna State Opera ensemble, where she was awarded the title of Austrian Kammersängerin in 2013. Her numerous awards include several Echo prizes and multiple recognitions as Singer of the Year. A highlight of her career was her 2009 debut at the Royal Opera House in London as Carmen and performances in the same role in a new production at the Metropolitan Opera, which was broadcast in over 1000 cinemas worldwide. She has also performed Carmen at La Scala in Milan, the Vienna State Opera, and the Zurich Opera House. Recently, she appeared as Dalila (Samson et Dalila) at the Met in New York and the Berlin State Opera, as Marguerite (La Damnation de Faust) at the Met and the Salzburg Festival, as Santuzza (Cavalleria rusticana) at the Royal Opera House London and the Vienna State Opera, as well as Kundry (Parsifal) at the Vienna State Opera. On the concert stage, she sang in Mahler’s 3rd Symphony with the Berlin Philharmonic in 2020, as well as in Verdi’s Messa da Requiem in Florence and at La Scala in Milan. In 2021, she gave a solo evening featuring Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder at the Salzburg Festival and the Lucerne Festival.

Olga Peretyatko, born in St. Petersburg, studied singing at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin and then belonged to the opera studio of the Hamburg State Opera. In 2007, she was a prize winner at Plácido Domingo’s Operalia competition. This was followed by engagements at the Komische Oper, the Deutsche Oper and the State Opera in Berlin, the State Operas in Munich and Dresden, La Scala, the Royal Opera House, the Bolshoi Theatre, the Met, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Vienna State Opera, the Aix-en-Provence Festival and the Rossini Opera Festival. She worked with renowned conductors such as Kirill Petrenko, Zubin Mehta, Valery Gergiev and Alberto Zedda. She attracted international attention in 2009 as the Nightingale in Robert Lepage’s acclaimed production of Stravinsky’s Le Rossignol, which was seen in Toronto as well as at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, the New York City Opera and Amsterdam. Her repertoire includes, among others, Lucia di Lammermoor, Alcina, Matilde di Shabran, Elvira (I puritani), Violetta (La traviata) and Donna Anna. Olga Peretyatko has released six albums and won several awards, including the “OPUS Klassik” (2018), the “ECHO Klassik” for best solo album (2015) and the “Premio Franco Abbiati della Critica Musicale Italiana.” Recently, she was heard in Les Contes d’Hoffmann at the Hamburg State Opera performing all four female roles, as Maria (Mazeppa) at the Baden-Baden Festival, as Gilda at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, as Adina (L’elisir d’amore), Liù (Turandot) and Leïla (Les Pêcheurs de perles) at the State Opera Unter den Linden, as well as Maria Stuarda at the Sydney Opera House.

Siena Licht Miller, German-American mezzo-soprano, studied voice at the Curtis Institute of Music and the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. She completed her training with programs at Opera Philadelphia, the Santa Fe Opera, the Opera Theatre of St. Louis, and the Aspen Music Festival. She is a scholarship holder of the Bagby Foundation and a prizewinner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the Marilyn Horne Rubin Foundation, and the Gerda Lissner Foundation.

Highlights of her career so far include role debuts as Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Second Lady in Die Zauberflöte, and one of the two solo roles in the world premiere of Denis and Katya by Philip Venables at Opera Philadelphia. At the Aspen Opera Center, she sang the title role in Ravel’s L’Enfant et les sortilèges under the baton of Robert Spano.

She also regularly dedicates herself to song repertoire. She appeared in The Song Continues recital series at Carnegie Hall in honor of her mentor Marilyn Horne, and toured the United States with a recital alongside pianist Kevin Murphy.

In the 2020/21 season, she was a member of the International Opera Studio in Zurich, where she performed in Maria Stuarda, Simon Boccanegra, Viva la mamma, Salome, Odyssee, in the ballet Monteverdi, in L’italiana in Algeri, and as Flosshilde in Das Rheingold. Since the 2022/23 season, she has been a member of the ensemble at Zurich Opera House, where she recently appeared in Barkouf, Salome, Anna Karenina, Lakmé, La rondine, Die Walküre, and Götterdämmerung.

She also sang the title role in Handel’s Serse at Theater Winterthur.

Yewon Han is a South Korean soprano. She completed her Bachelor’s degree in Classical Voice at Seoul National University and continued her training in the Young Artist Program of the Korea National Opera Studio (2021–2022) as well as at the International Opera Studio Zurich (2022–2024). Yewon Han has performed a wide range of roles in Korea and Europe, including Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi, Papagena in Die Zauberflöte, Adele in Die Fledermaus, Romilda in Serse, Li Si in Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver, Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Najade in Ariadne auf Naxos. In 2025, she will appear as Ophelia in Hamlet at the Buxton International Festival. She has received numerous awards, including first prize at the 60th Concurso Tenor Viñas (2023), third prize at the International Singing Competition Neue Stimmen (2022), and several first prizes at major singing competitions in South Korea.

In the 2025/26 season, Yewon Han will continue as a permanent ensemble member at Zurich Opera, where she will appear in a wide-ranging repertoire.

Stanislas de Barbeyrac received his training at the Conservatoire de Bordeaux. He is, among other distinctions, a prizewinner at the Queen Elisabeth International Singing Competition and is a regular guest at major opera houses around the world. He has appeared at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden as Arbace (“Idomeneo”), at the Opéra National de Paris as Evandro and Admeto (“Alceste”), as Pylades (“Iphigénie en Tauride”) and as Tamino, and at Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam as the Chevalier (“Dialogues des Carmélites”). At the Berlin State Opera, he appeared as Tristan / Second Tenor in “Le vin herbé”, and at the Grand Théâtre de Genève he sang Tamino and Léandre (“Le médecin malgré lui”). In the 2016/17 season, he was heard as Don Ottavio (“Don Giovanni”) in Stockholm and San Francisco, and as Renaud (“Armide”) at the Vienna State Opera and in Bordeaux. In addition to his operatic work, de Barbeyrac also performs regularly on the concert stage. His repertoire includes works such as Mendelssohn’s “Elijah”, Haydn’s “The Creation”, Mozart’s “Requiem”, Puccini’s “Messa di Gloria”, and Berlioz’s “L’enfance du Christ” as well as his “Te Deum”. In the 2017/18 season, Stanislas de Barbeyrac makes his house debut at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels (Chevalier) and debuts as Gonzalve (“L’Heure espagnole”) in Paris as well as Pelléas at the Opéra National de Bordeaux.

Ildebrando D’Arcangelo studied voice in Bologna and made his debut as Masetto (“Don Giovanni”) in Treviso and Trieste. He subsequently won the “Toti dal Monte” competition twice and has since been a regular guest at the world’s leading opera houses, including in Milan, New York, Rome, Barcelona, Florence, at the Vienna State Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, the Opéra Bastille in Paris, as well as at the Salzburg and Baden-Baden Festivals. His extensive repertoire includes works by Bellini, Berlioz, Boito, Donizetti, Handel, Stravinsky, Verdi, Mozart, and Rossini. In 2016, he sang Don Giovanni at the Salzburg Festival. In the 2018/19 season, he appeared as Escamillo (“Carmen”) in Geneva, as Count Almaviva (“Le nozze di Figaro”) at the Berlin State Opera, and as Don Giovanni in Wiesbaden and at the Semperoper. The 2019/20 season took him to Los Angeles (Sarastro), the Cité de la Musique in Paris (Méphistophélès), Liège (Philippe II in “Don Carlos”), and to the Berlin State Opera as Escamillo and Almaviva. He has worked with renowned conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Chailly, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Daniele Gatti, Bernard Haitink, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, René Jacobs, Sir Antonio Pappano, and Sir Georg Solti. Since 2009, he has been signed with Deutsche Grammophon, where, among others, a recording of “Don Giovanni” under the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin has been released. In December 2014, he was awarded the title “Österreichischer Kammersänger”.

Johan Krogius began his musical training in the boys’ choir of the Cathedral Choir Cantores Minores in Helsinki. He later studied at the Conservatory and at the Metropolia University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki, as well as at the Stockholm University of the Arts. In 2021, he won the Timo Mustakallio Singing Competition and was also awarded first prize at the Helsinki Lied Competition. On the opera stage, he has appeared in roles such as Jaquino (Fidelio), Pong (Turandot) in Helsinki, First Man in Joonas Kokkonen’s The Last Temptations at the Jyväskylä Opera, Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) at the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki, and as Tamino (Die Zauberflöte) at Tampere Opera, as well as recently at the Savonlinna Opera Festival, where in 2024 he also sang Don Ottavio and Ismaele (Nabucco). During the 2022/23 and 2023/24 seasons, he was a member of the International Opera Studio of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, where he appeared in roles including Leukippos in Strauss’s Daphne, Streshnev in Mussorgsky’s Khovanshchina, Tamino, First Armored Man and First Priest (Die Zauberflöte), as well as the Innkeeper and the Major-Domo (Der Rosenkavalier), Trojan (Idomeneo), Parpignol (La bohème) and Borsa (Rigoletto). In the summer of 2024, he also performed as Kuzka (Khovanshchina) with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Esa-Pekka Salonen in Helsinki and Stockholm. In the 2024/25 season, he made his debut as Tybalt (Roméo et Juliette), the Young Man’s Apparition (Die Frau ohne Schatten) and First Knight of the Grail (Parsifal) at the Staatsoper Berlin.

Gregory Feldmann studied at the Juilliard School with Elizabeth Bishop, Randall Scarlata, and Sanford Sylvan. At Juilliard Opera, he appeared as Belcore in “L’elisir d’amore”, as Virgil T. in “The Mother of Us All”, and as Guglielmo in “Così fan tutte”. At the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, he sang Almaviva in “Le nozze di Figaro”. As a soloist, he has performed in Fauré’s “Requiem” as well as Handel’s “Israel in Egypt” and “Messiah”. He has a close artistic partnership with pianist Nathaniel LaNasa. In 2019, he won first prize at the “Joy in Singing” International Song Competition and in 2021, first prize at the “Gerda Lissner” Song/Lieder Competition. In 2022, he was a Young Artist at the Glimmerglass Festival. From 2022 to 2024, he was a member of the International Opera Studio at Zurich Opera House, where he appeared in productions including “Roberto Devereux”, “Don Pasquale”, “Serse”, “Jakob Lenz”, “Sweeney Todd”, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, and “Carmen”. Together with pianist Nathaniel LaNasa, he has given song recitals at Wigmore Hall in London, at the September Festival: Royaumont in Viarmes (FR), and at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris.

Stanislav Vorobyov is a native of Russia and studied at the Moscow Conservatory. He was a member of the International Opera Studio and has been part of the ensemble at Zurich Opera House since the 2018/19 season. In Zurich, he has appeared in roles such as Colline (“La bohème”), Alidoro (“La Cenerentola”), High Priest (“Nabucco”), Notary (“Der Rosenkavalier”), Reinmar von Zweter (“Tannhäuser”), Faust (“The Fiery Angel”), Zaretsky (“Eugene Onegin”), Cesare Angelotti (“Tosca”), Fifth Jew and First Nazarene (“Salome”), Lord Rochefort (“Anna Bolena”), Doctor Grenvil (“La traviata”), Crébillon (“La rondine”), and Zuniga (“Carmen”), as well as Roberto (“I vespri siciliani”), Roucher (“Andrea Chénier”), and the Police Commissioner (“Der Rosenkavalier”). He also sang Don Basilio (“Il barbiere di Siviglia”) at the Bregenz Festival, Nourabad (“Les Pêcheurs de perles”) at Opera Vlaanderen and in Luxembourg, and Ombra di Nino (“Semiramide”) at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. At the Bregenz Festival, he also appeared as Uncle Bonzo in “Madama Butterfly” and as Il capitano/L’ispettore in Umberto Giordano’s “Siberia.” In 2024, he was additionally heard as Colline (“La bohème”) at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre and ROHM Theatre Kyoto.