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About Andrey

Moldovan baritone Andrey Zhilikhovsky completed his studies in choral conducting at the Stefan Nyaga Musical College in Chișinău, Moldova. Whilst at college, he also studied as a vocalist and upon graduation was given a place at the Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory in St Petersburg where he made his debut in the title role in Eugene Onegin.

Recent highlights for Andrey include his debut at the Royal Opera House as Marcello in Richard Jones' acclaimed production of La bohème. He also returned to the Bayerische Staatsoper in a role debut as Andrei Bolkonski in a new production of Prokofiev’s War and Peace, under the baton of Vladimir Jurowski. In the summer of 2023, Andrey returned to Glyndebourne to make his debut in the title role in Mozart’s Don Giovanni.

The 2024-2025 season will see Andrey make his debut at Finnish National Opera as Rodrigo in Verdi’s Don Carlo. Later in the season, he will return to the Metropolitan Opera as Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia and the Bayerische Staatsoper as Guglielmo in Cosi fan tutte.

Andrey is based in Chisinau, Moldova

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Kate Robson

Kate Robson

Assistant Artist Manager

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Season Highlights

Oct 2024 - Dec 2024
Teatro di San Carlo, Naples
Rusalka (role of Lovec / The Hunter) Dan Ettinger (Conductor) Dmitry Tcherniakov (Direction) Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro di San Carlo
Jan 2025 - Mar 2025
Finnish National Opera, Helsinki
Don Carlos (role of Rodrigue) Hannu Lintu / James Hendry (Conductor) Davide Livermore (Director)
May 2025 - Jun 2025
Metropolian Opera, New York
Il Barbiere di Siviglia (role of Figaro) Giacomo Sagripanti (Conductor) Bartlett Sher (Director)

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Selected Repertoire

Bizet

Les Pecheurs des Perles (Zurga)

Donizetti

Don Pasquale (Malatesta)   •   L’elisir d’amore (Belcore)

Gounod

Faust (Valentin)   •   Romeo et Juliette (Mercutio)

Leonvallo

Pagliacci (Silvio)

Massenet

Cherubin (Count)   •   Werther (Albert)

Mozart

Don Giovanni (title role)   •   Le nozze di Figaro (Conte)   •   Così fan tutte (Guglielmo)

Mussorgsky

Boris Godunov (Shelkalov)

Prokofiev

War and Peace (Andrei Bolkonski)

Puccini

La Bohème (Marcello)

Rossini

Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Figaro)   •   Le Comte Ory

Tchaikovsky

Eugene Onegin (Onegin)   •   Pique Dame (Yeletsky)   •   Iolanta (Robert)

Verdi

Don Carlo (Rodrigo)

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  • La Boheme (Puccini)

    Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
    Jan 2024 - Feb 2024

    • Andrey Zhilikhovsky, one of today’s best young baritones, is marvellous as Marcello, sounding glorious and wonderfully moving [...].

    • The dominant personality here, though, is the artist Marcello, with an outstanding performance by Andrey Zhilikhovsky who commands the stage.

  • Song Series (Rachmaninov)

    Wigmore Hall
    Jan 2024

    • Zhilikhovsky’s delivery was no less flexible. There’s an astonishing sonority to his voice that really resounds in his mid range.

  • Iolanta (Tchaikovsky)

    Bratislava Music Festival
    Sep 2023

    • The Moldavian baritone Andrey Zhilikhovsky was not far behind him as Robert [...] in a fiery aria and a duet with a tenorist, he attracted attention with the extraordinary qualities of his voice (he also sings on the world's leading stages), impressive timbre, elegant phrasing and impressive high position. We will be hearing a lot more about this young baritone.

  • Don Giovanni (Mozart)

    Glyndebourne Opera Festival
    May 2023

    • Giovanni is sung (and acted) by Andrey Zhilikhovsky with considerable style and gusto.

    • Andrey Zhilikhovsky was magnetic in the title role, hurling himself voraciously into an angry Champagne Aria, although he found tenderness for his Serenade.

    • As the titular libertine, Andrey Zhilikhovsky was commanding, conflicted and complex, charging about the stage, rampant and reckless, but finding stillness and sweetness in his serenade.

    • In the title role, Moldovan baritone Andrey Zhilikhovsky was firm-lined and suave in looks, voice and phrasing. ...he was a constant source of humour, expressiveness and allure. He seems to change the size and texture of his voice to his surroundings and his role: whereas his Marcello in La bohème at Covent Garden last autumn had big-scale macho force, his Giovanni, in the smaller space of Glyndebourne, sounded disarmingly intimate, often wonderfully hushed. He plants words as if directly into your ear.

    • Zhilikovsky sounds as attractive as he looks, which makes him very dangerous

  • La boheme (Puccini)

    Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
    Oct 2022

    • She’s well matched with the scene-stealing Marcello of Andrey Zhilikhovsky, making an impressive Royal Opera debut. Is it wrong to wonder whether the most heartfelt love duet in this opera might in fact be the one for Rodolfo and his bromance buddy?

    • Andrey Zhilikhovsky made an outstanding Covent Garden debut with his strongly sung Marcello

    • As Marcello, Andrey Zhilikhovsky reveals an extremely persuasive baritone and his duet ‘O Mimì, tu più non torni’ with Flórez is outstanding as the two singers create sounds that work extremely well together

    • Moldovan baritone Andrey Zhilikvosky, making his ROH debut, is an excellent Marcello with a voice that remains vocally solid and always focused throughout the evening. He provides such excellent support that his duet with Mimì in the third scene and the one with Rodolfo at the beginning of the fourth are among the most musically and dramatically successful moments of the evening.

    • Moldovan Andrey Zhilikhovsky, whose powerhouse baritone positively shook the opera house at every turn, at times overpowering his fellow performers." "Making his Covent Garden here as Marcello, this strikingly handsome young man stole many of the scenes he appeared in.