Born in Russia, Dmitry graduated from the Urals State Conservatory in 2000. That year he won the Grand Prize of the International Singers Competition at the UNESCO International Festival in Kazakhstan. Since 2000 he has been a soloist at the Stanislavski Opera (Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre).
In 2009 he was guest soloist at the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre of Russia and he also made his debut at the Bolshoi Theatre in the role of the Doctor in Wozzeck, in a new production by Dmitry Tchernyakov conducted by Teodor Currentzis. He soon became the favourite artist of this creative duo and he was invited to sing Banquo in Macbeth in a co-production by the Opéra de Paris and the Novosibirsk Opera. He sang the role again when the production was performed at the Teatro Real of Madrid in its 2012-13 season. He performed under the baton of Teodor Currentzis once again in Iolanta (King René) at the Teatro Real, with stage direction by Peter Sellars, in a production broadcast by Mezzo TV and subsequently released on DVD. The production then travelled to Palau de les Arts and also to the Bolshoi and to Aix-en-Provence.
He worked under the batons of conductors like Daniel Oren, Renato Palumbo, Pedro Halffter, Harmut Haenchen, Tomas Hanus, Giuseppe Finzi, Tomas Netopil, Keri-Lynn Wilson, Ivor Bolton, Mariss Jansons, Simone Young, Ingo Metzmacher and Pinchas Steinberg, among others.
His most outstanding performances include Les Huguenots (Marcel), Boris Godunov (Pimen), Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Basilio) and Le coq d'or (Zar Dodón) at Teatro Real; Don Carlo (Gran Inquisidor), Die Walküre (Hunding), Aida (Ramfis), Rigoletto (Sparafucile) and Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Teatro de la Maestranza; La Juive (Gian Francesco, cardenal de Brogni) at the Opera of Tel Aviv, Mikhailovsky Theatre of St. Petersburg and Opera Vlaanderen; Rigoletto (Sparafucile) and Il Trovatore at the Festival de Ópera de Coruña; Les vepres siciliennes in ABAO; Shylock (main role) at the Forbidden Music Festival of Marseilles; The Queen of Spades (Tomsky), Boris Godunov (Varlaam) and Prince Igor (Khan Konchak) at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo; The Saint of Bleecker Street (Don Marco), Aida (Ramfis) at the Opéra de Marseille; Carmen (Escamillo) at New National Theatre of Tokyo; Aida and Don Giovanni at the Stanislavsky Theatre of Moscow; Eugene Onegin (Gremin) in the Grand Thêàtre de Luxemburgo; Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Don Basilio) in the Liceu; Don Carlos (Filippo II), Katerina Izmaylova (Boris Timofeyevich Izmailov), Don Carlos (Philippe II) and Boris Godunov (Boris Godunov) at the Bolshoi; Khovanshchina (Prince Ivan Khovansky) in Moscow; Iolanta (King René) in Aix-en-Provence and Lyon; The Gambler (The General) in Monte-Carlo and Wiener Staatsoper; Der Fliegende Holländer (Daland) in the Opera Vlaanderen; Prince Igor (Prins Galitski / Khan Kontsjak) in De National Opera of Amsterdam; Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Boris Timofeyevich) at the Salzburger Festspiele; Attila (Attila) at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and Lyon; Aida (Ramfis) at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein; Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Boris Timofeyevich) at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples; War and Peace (Kutuzov), Eugene Onegin (Prince Gremin), Les contes d'Hoffmann (Les 4 diables), Lucia di Lammermoor (Raimondo), Khovanschina (Prince Ivan Khovansky), Il barbiere di Siviglia and Aida (Ramfis) in the Stanislavsky Theater in Moscow; Il barbiere di Siviglia (Basilio), Boris Godunov and Sadko at the Bolshoi; Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Boris Timofeevich Ismailov) at the Opera Bastille de Paris, Bolshoi and Grand Théâtre de Genève; Les contes d’Hoffmann (Les 4 diables) at the NCPA Beijing; Don Carlo at the Wiener Staatsoper, Royal Theatre, Bolshoi and Grand Théâtre de Genève; Prince Igor (Prince Galitski) at the Opera Bastille; Le coq d’or at the Komische Oper in Berlin and at the Opéra in Lyon; Mazeppa at the Bolshoi; War and Peace at the Bayerische Staatsoper.
In concert and recital, special mention must be made of his work, under the baton of Gennady Rozhdestvensky, in the role of Molchan Mitkov in Tchaikovsky's rarely-performed Oprichnik, in a concert given at the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari. The performance was broadcast throughout Europe and also recorded for subsequent release on CD. Other concert performances include Rossini's Stabat Mater, Verdi's Requiem, Stravinsky's Les Noces and different works by Schubert and Mussorgsky.
Upcoming engagements include Don Giovanni in Salzburg, Don Carlo at the Wiener Staatsoper, Simon Boccanegra at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Macbeth at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Yevgeny Onegin at the Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Khovanschina at the Grand Théâtre in Genève and Salzburg, Il trovatore at the Wiener Staatsoper and Boris Godunov at the Dutch National Opera.
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2021-2022 Performances
LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR 03 October 2021 19:00 Stanislavsky Theatre, Moscow
LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN 29 October 2021 19:00 Stanislavsky Theatre, Moscow
MAZEPPA (CONCERT VERSION) 10 November 2021 18:00 Festspielhaus Baden-Baden 12 November 2021 18:00 Festspielhaus Baden-Baden
IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA 24 November 2021 19:00 Stanislavsky Theatre, Moscow
EUGENE ONEGIN 29 November 2021 19:00 Stanislavsky Theatre, Moscow
DON CARLO 16 December 2021 18:00 Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna 19 December 2021 18:00 Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna 22 December 2021 18:00 Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna 25 December 2021 18:00 Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna
THE FIERY ANGEL 22 March 2022 19:30 Teatro Real, Madrid 23 March 2022 19:30 Teatro Real, Madrid 25 March 2022 19:30 Teatro Real, Madrid 26 March 2022 19:30 Teatro Real, Madrid 28 March 2022 19:30 Teatro Real, Madrid 31 March 2022 19:30 Teatro Real, Madrid 01 April 2022 19:30 Teatro Real, Madrid 03 April 2022 18:00 Teatro Real, Madrid 04 April 2022 19:30 Teatro Real, Madrid 05 April 2022 19:30 Teatro Real, Madrid
KOVANSHCHINA 13 April 2022 Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theater, Moscú 14 April 2022 Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theater, Moscú
METAMORPHOSEN (RICHARD STRAUSS) AND SYMPHONY N. 14 (SHOSTAKOVICH) 19 May 2022 19:00 Tomsk Regional State Philharmonic 30 May 2022 19:00 Samara Philharmonic