Gianandrea Noseda has been General Music Director of the Zurich Opera House since the 2021/22 season. In addition, he is Music Director of the National Symphony Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. In 2019, he became Music Director of the newly founded Tsinandali Festival and the Georgian Pan-Caucasian Youth Orchestra. From 2007 to 2018, Noseda served as General Music Director of the Teatro Regio di Torino, where he artistically reshaped the opera house during his tenure. Noseda has conducted the world’s leading orchestras (Berlin Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Concertgebouw Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic) as well as at the most prestigious opera houses (La Scala, Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House) and festivals (BBC Proms, Edinburgh, Salzburg, and Verbier). He has also held leading positions with the BBC Philharmonic (Chief Conductor), the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (Principal Guest Conductor), the Mariinsky Theatre (Principal Guest Conductor), and the Stresa Festival (Artistic Director). His discography comprises more than 80 CDs, with a special focus on the "Musica Italiana" project, which features neglected 20th-century Italian repertoire. Born in Milan, Noseda is a Commendatore al Merito della Repubblica Italiana and received the Order of Merit of the City of Milan in 2024. In 2015, he was named "Musical America’s Conductor of the Year," was awarded "Conductor of the Year" at the 2016 International Opera Awards, and received the Puccini Prize in 2023. In the same year, the Oper! Awards honored Noseda as "Best Conductor," particularly recognizing his interpretations of the first two "Ring" operas at the Zurich Opera House.
Dmitri Tcherniakov was born in Moscow and studied at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts. He designs the stage sets for his productions entirely by himself and he is the recipient of numerous awards, including the "Golden Mask", Russia’s most important theatre prize. Mussorgsky’s "Boris Godunov" at the Berlin State Opera marked the beginning of a close artistic collaboration with conductor Daniel Barenboim, followed by further joint productions: Prokofiev’s "The Gambler" and "Betrothal in a Monastery", Rimsky-Korsakov’s "The Tsar’s Bride", Wagner’s "Parsifal" as well as "Tristan and Isolde". Tchaikovsky’s "Eugene Onegin" has been staged in numerous major cities, Berg’s "Wozzeck" and Glinka’s "Ruslan and Lyudmila" at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Glinka’s "A Life for the Tsar" at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Shostakovich’s "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk" among others at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Verdi’s "Macbeth" at the Paris Opéra and "Simon Boccanegra" at the ENO, Mozart’s "Don Giovanni" in Aix-en-Provence, Madrid and at the Bolshoi Theatre. Mussorgsky’s "Khovanshchina", Poulenc’s "Dialogues des Carmélites" and Berg’s "Lulu" in Munich further strengthened his reputation in Germany, while Verdi’s "La traviata" in Milan and Borodin’s "Prince Igor" at the Metropolitan Opera New York brought him international recognition. Other highlights include Rimsky-Korsakov’s "The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh" in Amsterdam, Janáček’s "Jenufa" and Debussy’s "Pelléas et Mélisande" at the Zurich Opera House, the combination of Tchaikovsky’s "Iolanta" and "The Nutcracker" at the Paris Opéra, "Elektra" and "Ariadne auf Naxos" at the Hamburg State Opera, "The Flying Dutchman" at the Bayreuth Festival, Verdi’s "Il trovatore" and Berlioz’s "Les Troyens" in Brussels, and Wagner’s Ring cycle at the Berlin State Opera. Most recently, Dmitri Tcherniakov was seen with Korngold’s "Die tote Stadt" at the Zurich Opera House. In the 2026/27 season, he will return and combine the three one-act operas "Aleko", "Skupoj rýtsar" and "Francesca da Rimini" by Sergei Rachmaninoff.
Elena Zaytseva stammt aus St. Petersburg, wo sie auch ihre Ausbildung an der Theaterakademie erhielt. Anschliessend arbeitete sie bei Lenfilm Studio als Kostümassistentin, später als Kostümbildnerin für den Film. 1997 wurde sie Kostümbildnerin am Mariinski-Theater St. Petersburg und entwarf u.a. die Kostüme für den Fliegenden Holländer und Dornröschen. Daneben entwarf sie auch Kostüme für Inszenierungen am Sprechtheater. 2001 begann sie in Moskau für die New Opera Company zu arbeiten, 2003 ging sie ans Moskauer Bolschoj Theater, wo sie unter anderem die Kostüme für Lady Macbeth von Mzensk (2004), Le Corsaire (2007), Ruslan and Ludmilla (2011) und mehrere Ballettproduktionen verantwortete. Ausserdem arbeitete sie in Tscheljabinsk, Jekaterinburg (La Bayadère) und Berlin (Esmeralda). Als Ko-Kostümbildnerin von Dmitri Tcherniakov war sie an folgenden Produktionen beteiligt: Chowanschtschina (Bayerische Staatsoper), Lady Macbeth von Mzensk (Deutsche Opera am Rhein, English National Opera), Der Spieler (Berliner Staatsoper, Teatro alla Scala), Wozzeck (Bolschoj Theater), Dialogues des Carmélites (Bayerische Staatsoper), Don Giovanni (Aix en Provence, Bolschoi Theater, Canadian Opera Company), Simon Boccanegra (English National Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper), Die Legende von der unsichtbaren Stadt Kitesch (Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam), Jenůfa und Pelléas et Mélisande (Opernhaus Zürich), Il trovatore (Mariinski-Theater), Lulu (Bayerische Staatsoper), Parsifal, Die Zarenbraut, Tristan und Isolde und Die Verlobung im Kloster an der Berliner Staatsoper und Iolanta/Der Nussknacker und Les Troyens an der Opéra National de Paris.
Klaas-Jan de Groot is a Dutch conductor and choral director. Since the 2025/26 season, he has been Chorus Director of the Opernhaus Zürich. After studying in The Hague and Cardiff, he served from 2016 to 2022 as assistant to Chorus Director Ching-Lien Wu at the Dutch National Opera, where he prepared several productions and projects with the opera chorus. Since 2018, he has worked regularly with the Netherlands Radio Choir (Groot Omroepkoor). From 2018 to 2024, he served annually as assistant to Chorus Director Eberhard Friedrich at the Bayreuth Festival. He has conducted various concerts and performances with Opera Zuid as well as with the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century and the Essener Philharmoniker. From 2022 to 2025, he was Chorus Director of the Aalto-Theater in Essen. Since 2023, he has worked regularly with the NDR Vokalensemble in Hamburg. In 2024, he made his debut with the MDR-Rundfunkchor as well as with the Rundfunkchor Berlin. In recognition of his support for emerging talent, Klaas-Jan de Groot was awarded the prestigious Dutch Conducting Prize of the Anton Kersjes Fonds in 2021.
Gleb Filshtinsky is from St. Petersburg and studied at the city’s Academy of Theatre Arts, where he specialized in stage design. As a lighting designer, he has created not only numerous theatre productions but also show programs including pyrotechnics. His work has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Estonian National Theatre Prize. His productions "The Rake’s Progress" and "Eugene Onegin" at the Moscow Bolshoi Theatre received the Golden Mask, Russia’s most important theatre award. He has designed numerous productions for the Alexander and Mariinsky Theatres, including "Otello", "Boris Godunov", "Jenufa", "The Nose", "Carmen", "Der Ring des Nibelungen" and "Tristan and Isolde". He has a close collaboration with Dmitri Tcherniakov, including on "The Gambler", "The Tsar’s Bride", "Parsifal", "Der Ring des Nibelungen" at the Berlin State Opera, "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk" at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, "Macbeth" at the Opéra National de Paris, "Khovanshchina", "Dialogues des Carmélites" and "Lulu" at the Bavarian State Opera, "Don Giovanni" in Aix-en-Provence and at the Bolshoi Theatre, "Simon Boccanegra" in London at the English National Opera, "The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh" in Amsterdam, "Prince Igor" at the Metropolitan Opera New York, "Iolanta" at the Opéra National de Paris, and "Elektra" at the Hamburg State Opera. In addition, he has worked with director Alvis Hermanis for the Salzburg Festival on "The Soldiers", "Gawain" and "Il trovatore", at the opera houses of Bologna and Brussels on "Jenůfa", at the Opéra National de Paris on "La Damnation de Faust", and at La Scala on "I due Foscari".
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".
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.
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".
Russian soprano Elena Stikhina is among the leading singers of her generation. She is regularly invited to perform at renowned opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera in New York, La Scala in Milan, the Opéra National de Paris, the Vienna State Opera, the Bavarian State Opera, the Salzburg Festival, and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London. In the 2025/26 season, she will perform, among other roles, the title role in "Tosca" at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam, at the Vienna State Opera, and at the Paris Opéra. In addition, she will appear in the title role of Tchaikovsky’s "The Maid of Orleans" in Amsterdam, as Salome at the Lyric Opera in Chicago, as Cio-Cio-San ("Madama Butterfly") at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Metropolitan Opera in New York, as Senta ("The Flying Dutchman") and Elisabetta ("Don Carlo") at the Vienna State Opera, and as Amelia ("Un ballo in maschera") at the Zurich Opera House. Elena Stikhina studied at the Moscow Conservatory and the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Singing Centre. After early performances on the Primorsky stage of the Mariinsky Theatre in Vladivostok, she made her debut at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg as Salome, after which she became a member of the ensemble.
The mezzo-soprano Dominika Stefańska studied in Łódź and was a member of the Warsaw Opera Academy. She was a finalist at the Ada Sari International Vocal Artistry Competition 2021. At the Łódź Opera, she performed the roles of Volpino ("Lo speziale") and Mrs. Reich ("The Merry Wives of Windsor"), as well as a nymph ("Rusalka") at the Poznań Opera. As a member of the International Opera Studio at the Zurich Opera House, she appeared, among others, as Hippolyta in "A Midsummer Night’s Dream", as well as in "Jim Knopf" and "Sweeney Todd". Starting from the 2026/27 season, Dominika Stefańska will become a permanent ensemble member at the Zurich Opera House.
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").
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 comes from Russia and studied at the Moscow Conservatory. He was a member of the International Opera Studio and has been an ensemble member at the Zurich Opera House since the 2018/19 season. Here he has appeared, among others, 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 1st Nazarene ("Salome"), Lord Rochefort ("Anna Bolena"), Doctor Grenvil ("La traviata"), Crébillon ("La rondine"), Zuniga ("Carmen"), Roberto ("I vespri siciliani"), Roucher ("Andrea Chénier"), Police Commissioner ("Der Rosenkavalier"), Marchese Calatrava ("La forza del destino"), Tom ("Un ballo in maschera"), Brühlmann ("Werther"), as well as Faust ("The Fiery Angel"), Gold Dealer ("Cardillac") and Méphistophélès ("La Damnation de Faust"). In addition, he sang Don Basilio ("Il barbiere di Siviglia") at the Bregenz Festival, Nourabad ("Les Pêcheurs de perles") at Opera Flanders and in Luxembourg, as well as Ombra di Nino ("Semiramide") at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam. At the Bregenz Festival he appeared as Uncle Bonzo in "Madama Butterfly" and as Il capitano/L’ispettore in Giordano’s "Siberia". In 2024, he also appeared as Colline ("La bohème") at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theater and at the ROHM Theatre Kyoto.
Russian soprano Elena Stikhina is among the leading singers of her generation. She is regularly invited to perform at renowned opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera in New York, La Scala in Milan, the Opéra National de Paris, the Vienna State Opera, the Bavarian State Opera, the Salzburg Festival, and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London. In the 2025/26 season, she will perform, among other roles, the title role in "Tosca" at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam, at the Vienna State Opera, and at the Paris Opéra. In addition, she will appear in the title role of Tchaikovsky’s "The Maid of Orleans" in Amsterdam, as Salome at the Lyric Opera in Chicago, as Cio-Cio-San ("Madama Butterfly") at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Metropolitan Opera in New York, as Senta ("The Flying Dutchman") and Elisabetta ("Don Carlo") at the Vienna State Opera, and as Amelia ("Un ballo in maschera") at the Zurich Opera House. Elena Stikhina studied at the Moscow Conservatory and the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Singing Centre. After early performances on the Primorsky stage of the Mariinsky Theatre in Vladivostok, she made her debut at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg as Salome, after which she became a member of the ensemble.
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".
Power, control and destructive greed – and a love that overcomes guilt and death – stand at the centre of this late-Romantic triptych. This evening places the three one-act operas by the Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninov into a compelling field of tension with one another. Dmitri Tcherniakov, a master of radical de-romanticisation, stages an unflinching study of human abysses. Gianandrea Noseda conducts these three works, which are rarely performed together.
