Baritone Vladislav Sulimsky, born in Belarus, won the International Rimsky-Korsakov Competition in St. Petersburg in 2002 and subsequently became a member of the Mariinsky Theatre ensemble in St. Petersburg. In addition, he was the first prize winner of the Giacomo Lauri-Volpi Competition and was nominated for a Grammy in 2009. Guest engagements have taken him to opera houses, concert halls, and festivals worldwide, including the Berlin State Opera, Stuttgart State Opera, Leipzig Opera, Cologne Opera, Vienna State Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Dutch National Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Theater an der Wien, Theater Basel, Zurich Opera House, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, as well as the festivals in Edinburgh, Glyndebourne, and Salzburg. His repertoire includes roles such as Germont ("La traviata"), Renato ("Un ballo in maschera"), Alberich ("Das Rheingold"), Conte di Luna ("Il trovatore"), Count Tomsky ("Pique Dame"), Lord Enrico Ashton ("Lucia di Lammermoor"), Dunois ("The Maid of Orleans"), Iago ("Otello"), as well as the title roles in "Eugene Onegin", "Simon Boccanegra", "Macbeth", "Mazeppa", "Gianni Schicchi", "Il Trittico" and "Nabucco".

Ukrainian tenor Dmytro Popov began his career at the National Theatre Kyiv. In 2003 he was awarded the title "Merited Artist of Ukraine," which recognizes an outstanding contribution to the performing arts. In 2007 he won the prestigious Operalia Competition. His international breakthrough came in 2013 as Rodolfo ("La bohème") at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London. Since then, engagements have taken him to renowned opera houses worldwide, such as the Metropolitan Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Semperoper Dresden, Oper Stuttgart, Bavarian State Opera, Hamburg State Opera, Vienna State Opera, Zurich Opera House, Opéra national de Paris, Opéra National de Lyon, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, Teatro Regio in Turin, Teatro Real in Madrid, Den Norske Opera, Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Opera Australia in Sydney. In the concert field he has appeared, among others, with the Berlin Philharmonic under Sir Simon Rattle, the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Andris Nelsons, at the BBC Proms with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Andrés Orozco-Estrada, with Vladimir Jurowski at the Royal Festival Hall, and with the Orchestre de Paris under Gianandrea Noseda. His repertoire includes roles such as Duca ("Rigoletto"), Lenski ("Eugen Onegin"), Alfredo ("La traviata"), Mario Cavaradossi ("Tosca"), Vodemont ("Iolanta"), Don José ("Carmen"), Riccardo ("Un ballo in maschera"), Nicias ("Thaïs"), Macduff ("Macbeth"), Pinkerton ("Madama Butterfly"), Rodolfo ("Luisa Miller"), Andrej ("Mazeppa"), Don José ("Carmen"), The Prince ("Rusalka"), Grigorij Otrepjew ("Boris Godunow").

Baritone Pavel Yankovsky was born in Belarus and studied at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in St. Petersburg. He has received numerous awards, including at the International Irina Bogacheva Competition in 2007 and the Luciano Pavarotti Competition in 2008. Engagements have taken him to, among others, the Vlaamse Opera Antwerp, Opéra de Lyon, Hamburg State Opera, Stuttgart State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Staatstheater Hannover, Theater Basel, Teatro Real Madrid, the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, and the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. His repertoire includes roles such as Eugene Onegin, Prince Igor, Rigoletto, Germont ("La Traviata"), Marcello ("La Bohème"), Robert ("Iolanta"), Prince Yeletzky and Tomsky ("Pique Dame"), Wolfram ("Tannhäuser"), Telramund ("Lohengrin"), Jochanaan ("Salome"), Miller ("Luisa Miller"), Iago ("Otello"), Conte di Luna ("Il trovatore"), Don Carlo di Vargas ("La forza del destino"), Amonasro ("Aida"), Ford ("Falstaff"), Figaro ("Il barbiere di Siviglia"), Belcore ("L’Elisir d’Amore"), Carlo Gérard ("Andrea Chénier"), Enrico ("Lucia di Lammermoor"), Escamillo ("Carmen"), Sharpless ("Madama Butterfly"), Jack Rance ("La fanciulla del West") and Scarpia ("Tosca").

Siberian tenor Alexey Dolgov studied at the State Conservatory of Novosibirsk as well as at the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory. Engagements have taken him to numerous opera houses and festivals worldwide, including the Metropolitan Opera, Washington National Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Lucerne Opera, Opéra de Montréal, Scottish Opera, Opéra Royal de Wallonie, Opéra de Nice, New Israeli Opera, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Teatro Real in Madrid, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, and the Baden-Baden Festival. In concerts, he has performed with Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester, the Oslo Philharmonic, Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest, and the Philharmonic Orchestra Luxembourg. His repertoire includes roles such as Cavaradossi ("Tosca"), Nemorino ("L’elisir d’amore"), Cassio ("Otello"), Nadir ("Les pêcheurs de perles"), Sir Edgardo di Ravenswood ("Lucia di Lammermoor"), Tamino ("The Magic Flute"), Bacchus ("Ariadne auf Naxos"), Lenski ("Eugene Onegin"), Ferrando ("Così fan tutte"), the Duke ("Rigoletto"), Rodolfo ("La bohème"), and Alfredo ("La Traviata").

Stanislav Vorobyov is from Russia and studied at the Moscow Conservatory. He was a member of the International Opera Studio and has been a member of the ensemble at the Zurich Opera House since the 2018/19 season. Here, he has appeared in roles including Colline ("La bohème"), Alidoro ("La Cenerentola"), the High Priest ("Nabucco"), Reinmar von Zweter ("Tannhäuser"), Zaretsky ("Eugene Onegin"), Angelotti ("Tosca"), the Fifth Jew and First Nazarene ("Salome"), Lord Rochefort ("Anna Bolena"), Dottor Grenvil ("La traviata"), Crébillon ("La rondine"), Zuniga ("Carmen"), Roberto ("I vespri siciliani"), Roucher ("Andrea Chénier"), Marchese Calatrava ("La forza del destino"), Tom ("Un ballo in maschera"), as well as Faust ("Der feurige Engel") and Méphistophélès ("La Damnation de Faust"). Guest engagements have taken him to the Bregenz Festival as Don Basilio in "Il barbiere di Siviglia", Uncle Bonzo in "Madama Butterfly", and Il capitano/L’ispettore in Giordano’s "Siberia", to Opera Ballet Vlaanderen and Luxembourg as Nourabad in "Les Pêcheurs de perles", to the Concertgebouw Amsterdam as Ombra di Nino in "Semiramide", and in 2024 as Colline in "La bohème" at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre and the ROHM Theatre Kyōto.