Dmitry Belosselskiy

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About Dmitry

Dmitry Belosselskiy is one of the most exciting basses of his generation; taking the operatic world by storm, and is celebrated by audiences and critics alike.

Dmitry starts this 24/25 season with his house debut as Gremin Eugene Onegin at The Royal Ballet and Opera. Following this, he will make returns to the Metropolitan Opera to sing Ramfis in a new production of Aida by Michael Mayer and later to Bayerische Staatsoper for Inquisitore Don Carlos. On the concert platform he will sing Shostakovich Symphony No. 13 with Orchestre National de Lille, before spending the Summer in Leipzig at the Shostakovich Festival to sing Old Convict Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and Symphony No. 14.

Recent concert appearances include Verdi’s Requiem at the Metropolitan Opera with Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande with Myung-whun Chung and Ludovic Morlot and and the OrquestraSinfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya. He also sang Boris Timofeyevich Ismailov Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk with Boston Symphony Orchestra in concert performances at Symphony Hall Boston and Carnegie Hall.

He has already established a remarkable career and has performed at the world’s finest opera houses and concert venues, including The Metropolitan Opera New York, Teatro alla Scala, Salzburger Festspiele, Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, Wiener Staatsoper, Opéra national de Paris, Chorégies d’Orange, Wagnerfestspiele in Bayreuth, Opernhaus Zürich, Teatro Real in Madrid, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Theater an der Wien, Washington National Opera, Canadian Opera Company Toronto, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia, and Bayerische Staatsoper Munich.

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Mark Hildrew

Mark Hildrew

Executive Director
Grace Hewett

Grace Hewett

Assistant Artist Manager

Representation

General management: Askonas Holt

Partner manager:
Melodramma - Giandomenico Bisi (Italy)

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Season Highlights

Sep 2024
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin (Prince Gremin) Henrik Nánási (conductor)
Dec 2024 - Jan 2025
The Metropolitan Opera
Verdi: Aida (Ramfis) Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor)
May 2025
Bayerische Staatsoper
Verdi: Don Carlo (Der Großinquistor) Zubin Mehta (conductor)
Jun 2025
Shostakovich Festival, Oper Leipzig
Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth von Mtsensk (Boris Timofeyevich Ismailov) Andris Nelsons (conductor)

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Selected Repertoire

Bartok

Bluebeard's Castle (title role)

Bellini

Norma (Oroveso)

Berg

Wozzeck (Doctor)

Berlioz

La Damnation de Faust (Méphistophélès)

Bizet

Carmen (Escamillo)

Boito

Mephistopheles (title role)

Borodin

Prince Igor (Galitsky/Vladimir Yaroslavich)

Cherubini

Medea (King Creon)

Glinka

Ruslan and Lyudmila (Ruslan)   •   A life for a Tsar (Iwan Sussanin)

Mozart

Don Giovanni (Comenndatore)

Mussorgsky

Boris Godunov (title role, Pimen)   •   Khovanshchina (Dosifey, Iwan Khovansky)

Puccini

Turandot (Timur)

Rachmaninoff

Francesca da Rimini (Lanciotto Malatesta)

Rimsky Korsakov

The Tsar’s Bride (Malyuta Skuratov)

Saint-Saëns

Samson et Dalila (Un Vieillard Hebreu)

Shostakovich

Lady Macbeth of Mtsenk (Old Convict, Boris)

Strauss

Der Rosenkavalier (Baron Ochs)

Tchaikovsky

Iolanta (King Rene)   •   Eugene Onegin (Prince Gremin)

Verdi

Aida (Ramfis)   •   Macbeth (Banquo)   •   Nabucco (Zaccaria)   •   Simon Boccanegra (Fiesco)   •   Attila (title role)   •   La Battaglia di Legagno (Federico Barbarossa)   •   Il Trovatore (Ferrando)   •   Don Carlo (Filippo II, Inquisitore)   •   Rigoletto (Sparafucile)   •   Ernani (Da Silva)   •   La Forza del destino (Marchese di Calatrava)   •   Messa di Requiem   •   Luisa Miller (Walter, Wurm)   •   I verspri Siciliani (Procida)

Wagner

Das Rheingold (Fafner)   •   Der Fliegende Holländer (Daland)   •   Die Götterdämmerung (Hagen)   •   Die Walküre (Hunding)   •   Siegfried (Fafner)   •   Tannhäuser (Landgraf Hermann)   •   Tristan und Isolde (König Marke)   •   Parsifal (Gurnemanz*)

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  • Verdi Nabucco

    Metropolitan Opera New York
    Sep 2023 - Oct 2023

    • Of the soloists, it is Zaccaria that dominates the first act, here commandingly sung by Dmitry Belosselskiy, his several arias all perfectly idiomatic.

    • Il affronte crânement les difficultés de sa grande scène du premier acte 'Sperate o figli' [Translated] He bravely tackles the difficulties of his great Act I scene, 'Sperate o figli'

    • Dmitry Belosselskiy was also reprising the role of the high priest Zaccaria. His robust bass rang out fierce and defiant

    • Belosselskiy, who returned as Zaccaria in “Nabucco,” sang attractively in “Vieni, o Levita.”

    • In another role reprisal from 2016, Dmitry Belosselskiy displayed a rich and flowingly lyrical bass in his sage and subtle depiction of Zaccaria, the High Priest of Jerusalem.

  • Wagner Der Fliegende Holländer

    Metropolitan Opera, New York
    May 2023 - Jun 2023

    • As Daland, Dmitry Belosselskiy was similarly effective, particularly during his duet with Konieczny. He managed a brighter timbre in his bass with rhythmic accuracy and pinpoint diction throughout. This was also noticeable during “Mögst du, mein Kind, den fremden Mann willkommen heissen!” when he introduces Senta to the Dutchman. His bass maintained a sturdiness throughout

    • Bass Dmitry Belosselskiy was full of character and vocal weight as Daland, believably craven in his eagerness to sell Senta off to the Dutchman

    • Dmitry Belosselskiy was as tender as Daland as he was terrifying as the Commendatore in Don Giovanni.

    • Dmitry Belosselskiy used his weighty and characterful bass to effectively portray Daland, Senta’s father, as a strong but unscrupulous man who eagerly sells off his daughter to the Dutchman in return for great wealth. The two smaller roles were less evenly cast

  • Verdi Don Carlos

    Lyric Opera of Chicago
    Nov 2022 - Dec 2022

    • Dmitri Belosselskiy is a towering King Philippe with a fantastically commanding and cavernous bass voice. This is a man in control and you are drawn to the very power of his voice.

    • Belosselskiy potently conveys the strength of the Spanish king but also his vulnerability, which comes through in a moving performance of the character’s desolate Act 4 meditation on his age and loveless marriage

  • Verdi Don Carlos

    Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich
    Sep 2022 - Oct 2022

    • Dmitry Belosselsky gibt mit vollem Bass den Despoten Philipp II. Seine väterliche Liebe unterdrückt er hoheitsvoll. Seine Machtlosigkeit im Konflikt von Amt und eigenen Gefühlen streicht er geschickt nuanciert vor allem in seiner großen Arie „Sie hat mich nie geliebt“ heraus.” [Translated] Dmitry Belosselsky plays the despot Philip II with full bass. He sovereignly suppresses his paternal love. He skilfully highlights his powerlessness in the conflict between office and his own feelings, especially in his great aria “Ella giammai m’amo”.

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