Russian soprano Elena Stikhina studied at the Moscow Conservatory and at the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Singing Centre. She made her debut as Salome at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, where she later became a member of the ensemble. In 2016, she won, among other distinctions, the Culturarte Prize at the Operalia Competition. She is regularly invited to perform at renowned venues including the Metropolitan Opera in New York, La Scala in Milan, the Opéra national de Paris, the Vienna State Opera, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Salzburg Festival, and the Royal Opera House in London. Her recent engagements include the title role in "Tosca" at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam, the Vienna State Opera, and the Opéra de Paris. In addition, she sang the title role in Tchaikovsky’s "The Maid of Orleans" in Amsterdam, Salome at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, in Geneva, and at La Scala in Milan, Cio-Cio-San ("Madama Butterfly") at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Senta ("Der fliegende Holländer") and Elisabetta ("Don Carlo") at the Vienna State Opera, as well as Aida at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, the Bavarian State Opera, and the Salzburg Festival, where she had made her debut in 2019 in the title role of Cherubini’s "Médée". At the Zurich Opera House, she appeared among others as Salome and Manon Lescaut.

The tenor Bekhzod Davronov comes from Samarkand (Uzbekistan) and studied at the State Conservatory there. He was a member of the opera studio and subsequently an ensemble member at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. In 2021, he won second prize at the Operalia Competition. Recent highlights include Cassio ("Otello") at the Vienna State Opera, Don Ottavio ("Don Giovanni") at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Prunier ("La rondine") at the Metropolitan Opera New York, Alfredo ("La traviata") at the Santa Fe Opera, Rodolfo at the Prague State Opera and on tour with the Glyndebourne Festival, Anatol Kuragin in Dmitri Tcherniakov’s new production of Prokofiev’s "War and Peace" under Vladimir Jurowski at the Bavarian State Opera, and Aljeja ("From the House of the Dead") at the Ruhrtriennale. In 2024/25, he debuted as Alfredo and Rodolfo at Dallas Opera, sang Edgardo ("Lucia di Lammermoor"), Rodolfo and Alfredo at the Semperoper Dresden, Duca di Mantova ("Rigoletto") at the Irish National Opera, and made his debut at the Salzburg Festival as Leicester ("Maria Stuarda"). In 2025/26, he will make his house debut at the Royal Opera House London as Alfredo and his role and house debut as Roméo ("Roméo et Juliette") at Teatr Wielki in Warsaw. He will also return as Edgardo to the Vienna State Opera, as Duca di Mantova and Nemorino ("L’elisir d’amore") to the Bavarian State Opera, and as Rodolfo and Roméo to the Semperoper Dresden.

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".

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").

Ain Anger studied singing at the Music Academy in Tallinn, Estonia. As an ensemble member, he was engaged at the Leipzig Opera and the Vienna State Opera. In 2020, he was appointed Austrian Kammersänger. As a guest artist, he has performed at opera houses in Berlin, Frankfurt, Paris, London, Barcelona, Dresden, Brussels, Zurich, Milan, Toronto, Houston, San Francisco and New York, as well as at the festivals in Savonlinna, Bayreuth, Salzburg and Lucerne. His repertoire includes roles such as Pogner ("Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg"), King Marke ("Tristan und Isolde"), Heinrich the Fowler ("Lohengrin"), Daland ("The Flying Dutchman"), Hermann, Landgrave of Thuringia ("Tannhäuser") and Fafner ("Das Rheingold", "Siegfried"), Hunding ("Die Walküre"), Sarastro ("The Magic Flute"), Rocco ("Fidelio"), Philip II and the Grand Inquisitor ("Don Carlo"), Zaccaria ("Nabucco"), Fiesco ("Simon Boccanegra"), René ("Iolanta"), as well as the title role in "Boris Godunov".