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 at 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 on the international stage through appearances at renowned opera and concert venues. She has performed, among others, at the Vienna State Opera, the Salzburg Festival, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, the Bavarian State Opera and the Berlin State Opera, as well as at the Opéra national de Paris. In 2003 she became a member of the ensemble of the Vienna State Opera, where she was awarded the title of Austrian Kammersängerin in 2013. Her numerous honours include several Echo Awards and multiple distinctions as Singer of the Year. A highlight of her career was her debut at the Royal Opera House in London in 2009 as Carmen, as well as performances in the same role in a new production at the Metropolitan Opera that was broadcast worldwide in more than 1,000 cinemas. She has also appeared as Carmen at La Scala in Milan, the Vienna State Opera and Zurich Opera House. Most recently she sang the Principessa di Bouillon in "Adriana Lecouvreur" at Teatro Real, Santuzza ("Cavalleria rusticana") and Eboli ("Don Carlo") at the Vienna State Opera, Amneris ("Aida") at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the Bavarian State Opera, Kundry ("Parsifal") at the Bayreuth Festival, as well as gala concerts and song recitals (among others at Zurich Opera House). Planned engagements include, among others, "La Damnation de Faust" at Zurich Opera House, a tour with Daniele Gatti and the Staatskapelle Dresden featuring Verdi’s "Requiem", and "Adriana Lecouvreur" in Naples.

Olga Peretyatko, born in St Petersburg, studied singing at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin and subsequently was a member of the Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera. In 2007 she achieved her international breakthrough as a prizewinner at Plácido Domingo’s Operalia Competition. Since then she has appeared, among others, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Royal Opera House in London, La Scala in Milan, the state operas in Vienna and Berlin, Teatro Real Madrid, Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, as well as at the Opéra Bastille and at the festivals in Salzburg, Baden-Baden, Aix-en-Provence and Pesaro. Her repertoire includes, among others, Violetta ("La traviata"), Gilda ("Rigoletto"), Leonora ("Il trovatore"), Donna Anna ("Don Giovanni"), Norina ("Don Pasquale"), Anna Bolena, Norma, as well as Marguerite ("Faust"), Liù ("Turandot") and Leïla in Bizet’s "Les pêcheurs de perles". At Zurich Opera House she has appeared, among others, as Fiorilla in "Il turco in Italia" and in the current season as Giulia in "La scala di seta". Most recently she sang Magda de Civry in a new production of "La rondine" at the Teatro Regio in Turin and Donna Anna in a new production of "Don Giovanni" in Bologna. In 2018 she gave her first solo recital at La Scala in Milan. For her six albums on Sony Classical she has received multiple awards, and in 2025 she was honoured with the European Cultural Award for her outstanding artistic achievements.

Siena Licht Miller, a German-American mezzo-soprano, studied voice at the Curtis Institute of Music and the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. She completed her training with courses at Opera Philadelphia, the Santa Fe Opera, the Opera Theatre of St. Louis, and the Aspen Music Festival. She is a fellow 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 parts in the world premiere of Philip Venables’ “Denis and Katya” at Opera Philadelphia. At the Aspen Opera Center, she sang the title role in Ravel’s “L’Enfant et les sortilèges” under the direction of Robert Spano. She regularly devotes herself to art song, performing in the “The Song Continues” series at Carnegie Hall in honor of her mentor Marilyn Horne and touring the U.S. with a recital alongside pianist Kevin Murphy. In the 2020/21 season, she was a member of the International Opera Studio at the Zurich Opera House, performing in productions such as “Maria Stuarda,” “Simon Boccanegra,” “Viva la mamma,” “Salome,” “Odyssey,” the ballet “Monteverdi,” “L’italiana in Algeri,” and as Flosshilde in “Das Rheingold.” Since the 2022/23 season, she has been a member of the Zurich Opera House ensemble and has recently appeared in “Barkouf,” “Salome,” “Anna Karenina,” “Lakmé,” “La rondine,” “Die Walküre,” and “Götterdämmerung,” as well as in the title role of 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 as well as from 2022 to 2024 at the International Opera Studio Zurich. Yewon Han has interpreted 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 Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer", Titania in "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" and Naiad in "Ariadne auf Naxos". In the summer of 2025 she appeared 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), as well as several first prizes at major singing competitions in South Korea. From the 2025/26 season she is a permanent ensemble member of Zurich Opera House, where she can be heard, among others, in "Hänsel und Gretel", "La clemenza di Tito" and "Arabella".

The French tenor Stanislas de Barbeyrac studied at the Conservatory in Bordeaux. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Prix du Cercle Carpeaux, the Prix Lyriques de l’AROP and the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. In 2008 he became a member of the Atélier Lyrique of the Opéra de Paris and launched his career from there at the theatres in Nice, Tours, Toulon, Strasbourg, Metz, Marseille and Avignon. In 2014 he achieved his international breakthrough as Tamino ("Die Zauberflöte") at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. He went on to sing the role again at Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam, at the Chorégies d’Orange, the Opéra de Paris, the Zurich Opera House, the Grand Théâtre de Genève, Teatro Real Madrid and in Budapest. He also appears regularly at major opera houses in London, Vienna, New York, Munich and San Francisco as well as at the Salzburg Festival. Highlights have included Piquillo in Offenbach’s "La Périchole" at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Arbace ("Idomeneo") at the Royal Opera House, Lensky ("Eugene Onegin") at the Théâtre du Châtelet and Chevalier de la Force in Poulenc’s "Dialogues des Carmélites" at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, in Munich, Brussels, Bologna and Amsterdam. He sang Siegmund ("Die Walküre") in London and at the beginning of the 2025/26 season in Paris, Erik ("Der fliegende Holländer") at the Staatsoper Berlin and in Valencia, as well as Don José ("Carmen") in Berlin, Amsterdam, Bordeaux and at the Opéra de Rouen Normandie. In concert he has worked with the Vienna Philharmonic under Yannick Nézet-Séguin, with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Santtu-Matias Rouvali and with the Oslo Philharmonic under Klaus Mäkelä.

Ildebrando D’Arcangelo studied singing 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 major international 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 London, the Opéra Bastille 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. His recent engagements include Oroveso in "Norma" at the Vienna State Opera, Figaro-Count at Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Attila at the Opéra de Marseille, and Ernani in a concert with the Munich Radio Orchestra. In addition to "Carmen" at the Zurich Opera House, in the 2025/26 season he will appear, among others, as Procida in "Les Vêpres siciliennes" and as Sir Giorgio in "I puritani" at the Royal Opera House London, as well as Mozart's Figaro in a concert performance with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. 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 under contract with Deutsche Grammophon, where, among others, a recording of "Don Giovanni" conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin has been released. In 2014, he was awarded the title "Austrian Kammersänger."

The tenor Johan Krogius began his musical training in the boys’ choir of the Cathedral Cantores Minores in Helsinki. He later studied in Helsinki and Stockholm, won the Timo Mustakallio Singing Competition in 2021, and in the same year was awarded first prize at the Helsinki Lied Competition. In opera he has sung roles such as Jaquino ("Fidelio") and Pong ("Turandot") in Helsinki, First Man and Juhana in Joonas Kokkonen’s "The Last Temptations" at the opera in Jyväskylä, Don Ottavio ("Don Giovanni") at the Finnish National Opera, Kuska ("Chowanschtschina") with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Esa-Pekka Salonen in Helsinki and Stockholm, as well as Tamino ("Die Zauberflöte") at the opera in Tampere and at the Savonlinna Opera Festival, where he could also be heard in 2024 as Don Ottavio and Ismaele ("Nabucco") and in 2025 as Macduff ("Macbeth"). In the 2022/23 and 2023/24 seasons he was a member of the International Opera Studio of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin. There he performed, among others, as Leukippos (Strauss’ "Daphne"), Tamino, First Armoured Man and First Priest ("Die Zauberflöte"), the Innkeeper and Faninal’s Major-Domo ("Der Rosenkavalier"), a Trojan ("Idomeneo"), Parpignol ("La bohème") and Borsa ("Rigoletto"). As a guest he returned to the Berlin State Opera in the role of Tybalt ("Roméo et Juliette"). On the concert stage he has appeared with the Jyväskylä Sinfonia, the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra, the Tapiola Sinfonietta and the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, and made his debut with Mozart’s "Requiem" at the Berlin Philharmonie in 2024.

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.

Guram Margvelashvili is from Georgia. He completed his vocal studies in 2024 at the State Conservatory in Tbilisi. From 2019 to 2023, he was a member of the Tbilisi Opera Studio, where he performed roles such as the Priest and Papageno in "The Magic Flute," Valentin in Gounod’s "Faust," and the title roles in "Don Giovanni" and "Eugene Onegin." He also sang Belcore in Donizetti’s "L’elisir d’amore." Guram Margvelashvili has received several scholarships and was a finalist in the Giuseppe Di Stefano International Singing Competition in Sicily and the Tamar Iveri International Singing Competition in Georgia. Since the 2025/26 season, he has been a member of the International Opera Studio at the Zürich Opera House.

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.