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Dmitry
Belosselskiy
Dmitry Belosselskiy

Born in Pavlograd (Ukraine). In 2001 graduated from the Gnesin Music Academy in Moscow. While still a student, he became a soloist with the Vladimir Minin’s Moscow Chamber Choir. In 2005 he became a soloist with the choir of Moscow’s Sretensky monastery.

In 2010-13, he was a soloist with the Bolshoi Theatre Opera Company.

He has performed at the world’s finest opera houses and concert venues, including Metropolitan Opera New York, La Scala, Paris National Opera, Berlin State Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Vienna State Opera, Theater an der Wien, Zurich Opera, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Teatro Real in Madrid, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Washington National Opera, Canadian Opera Company Toronto, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia; Chorégies d'Orange, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Salzburg Festival, Bregenz Festival,

Wagner Festival in Bayreuth, Macau International Music Festival.

Has worked with many leading conductors including Riccardo Muti, Zubin Mehta, Daniel Barenboim, Riccardo Chailly, Vladimir Spivakov, Yuri Bashmet, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Marco Armiliato, James Levine, Fabio Luisi, Phillippe Jordan, James Conlon, Jan Latham Koenig, Bertrand de Billy, Thomas Sanderling, Jesus López-Cobos, Riccardo Frizza and Mikhail Pletnev.

He has also appeared with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, as well as on the stages of Avery Fisher Hall, New York, Harris Theater, Chicago, John Hancock Hall Boston, Philharmonie Luxembourg, Wiener Konzerthaus, Seoul Arts Center, NHK Hall Tokyo.

Awards

2nd prize at the Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow

2007

Title of Honoured Artist of Russia

2010

The Golden Mask National Theatre prize for the role of Philip II (Don Carlo at the Bolshoi Theatre)

2015
Repertoire
2023
Repertoire at the Bolshoi

Zaccaria (Nabucco)
King Rene (Iolanta)
Malyuta Skuratov (The Tsar’s Bride)
Escamillo (Carmen)
Boris Godunov (Boris Godunov)
Philip II (Don Carlo)
Méphistophélès (La Damnation de Faust)
Heinrich der Vogler (Lohengrin)

Oroveso (Norma) – Washington National Opera, La Fenice

King Creon (Medea) – Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia

Galitsky (Prince Igor) – Zurich Opera

Commendatore (Don Giovanni) – Metropolitan Opera

Boris Godunov (Boris Godunov) – Bavarian State Opera

Ivan Khovansky (Khovanshchina) – Vienna State Opera

Lanceotto Malatesta (Francesca da Rimini) – Theater an der Wien

Boris Timofeyevich (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk) – Frankfurt Opera

King Rene (Iolanta) – Theater an der Wien

Gremin (Eugene Onegin) – Houston Grand Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago

Ramfis (Aida) – Metropolitan Opera, Arena di Verona

Banquo (Macbeth) – Salzburg Festival

Zaccaria (Nabucco) – Metropolitan Opera, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, La Scala, Vienna State Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Arena di Verona, Teatro Real in Madrid, Salzburg Festival, Chorégies d'Orange

Fiesco (Simon Boccanegra) – La Scala, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Berlin State Opera, Bavarian State Opera

Attila (Attila) – Theater an der Wien

Federico Barbarossa (La Battaglia di Legagno) – Teatro dell’Opera di Roma

Ferrando (Il Trovatore) – Macau International Music Festival, Canadian Opera Company

Filippo II (Don Carlo) – Lyric Opera of Chicago, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Giovanni Procida (I vespri siciliani) – La Scala

Sparafucile (Rigoletto) – Houston Grand Opera

De Silva (Ernani) – Metropolitan Opera

Fafner (Das Rheingold) – Metropolitan Opera, Vienna State Opera

Hunding (Die Walküre) – Vienna State Opera, Bayreuth Festival

Fafner (Siegfried) – Metropolitan Opera, Vienna State Opera

Talbot (Giovanna d'Arco) – La Scala, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma

Count Walter (Luisa Miller) – Teatro Real in Madrid

Wurm (Luisa Miller) – Metropolitan Opera

General partner of the Bolshoi Theatre — insurance company «Ingosstrakh»
Privileged sponsor of the Bolshoi Theatre — Tinkoff Bank
Privileged partner of the Bolshoi Theatre — GUM