Bolshoi Theatre • Taras Shtonda

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Taras
Shtonda

Taras Shtonda

Born in Kiev. In 1993, he graduated from the Kiev Tchaikovsky Conservatoire (Galina Sukhorukova’s class).

Since 1992, he has been soloist with the National Opera of the Ukraine.

In 2002, he made his Bolshoi Theatre debut as Dosifei (Mussorgsky’s Khovanshchina).

Taras Shtonda performs on the leading european opera houses’ stages, such as Royal Opera Covent Garden, Copenhagen Royal Opera, Grand Theatre de Geneve, Vlaamse Opera Antwerpen, Frankfurt Oper, Malmö Opera, Opera de Lyon, Teatro Verdi di Trieste, Mariinsky Theatre.

He often appears at major international music festivals like the Glyndebourne Festival, Munich Opera Festival, KlangBogen Festival, Ljubljana Opera Festival, Savonlinna as well as Dalhalla festivals.

Awards

People’s Artist of Ukraine

2008

3rd prize of the International J .Gayarre Contest

1996, Pamplona

1st prize of the International Maria Callas Grand Prix

1997, Athens

2nd prize of the International Francisco Vinas Vocal Contest

1997, Barcelona

Honoured Artist of Ukraine

1999

2nd prize of the International Buhl-Buhl Contest

2000, Baku

Repertoire at the Bolshoi Theatre

Boris Godunov, Pimen (Boris Godunov)

Boris Timofeyevich (Katerina Izmailova)

Ruslan (Ruslan and Lyudmila)

Priest (The Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk)

King Rene (Iolanta)

Kochubey (Mazeppa)

Faust (The Fiery Angel)

Dosifei (Mussorgsky’s Khovanshchina)

Also in repertoire

Don Basilio (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) — National Opera of the Ukraine

Raimondo (Lucia di Lammermoor) — Mariinsky Theatre

Oroveso (Norma) — Opéra de Toulon

Grand Inquisitor (Don Carlo) — Munich Opera Festival, Palma-de-Mallorca

Zaccaria (Nabucco) — Prague State Opera, National Opera of the Ukraine, Avignon

Ramfis (Aida) — Malmö Opera

Il Conte di Walter (Luisa Miller) — Malmö Opera

Mephistopheles (Faust) — Budapest Opera, National Opera of the Ukraine

Nilakantha (Lakme) — Malmö Opera, Copenhagen/Dalhalla festival

Four villains (Les contes d'Hoffmann) — Malmö Opera

Crespel (Les contes d'Hoffmann) — Copenhagen Royal Opera

Commendatore (Don Giovanni) — Glyndebourne Festival Opera

Wotan (Die Walkure) — Mariinsky Theatre, Ljubljana Opera Festival

Hunding (Die Walkure) — Frankfurt Oper

Hagen (Götterdämmerung) — Opera de Oviedo, Opernhaus Kiel

Fafner (Rheingold, Siegfried) — Grand Theatre de Geneve

Gurnemanz (Parsifal) — Malmö Opera

Gremin (Eugene Onegin) — Oslo Opera, Malmö Opera, Göteborg Opera, Glyndebourne Festival

Dosifei (Khovanshchina) — National Opera of the Ukraine

Ibn-Hakia (Iolanta) — National Opera of the Ukraine

Boris Godunov (Boris Godunov) — Teatro Verdi di Trieste, National Opera of the Ukraine

Pimen (Boris Godunov) — Royal Opera Covent Garden, Savonlinna Opera Festival

Galitsky (Prince Igor) — National Opera of the Ukraine, Winterthur

Johann Faust (Fairy angel) — Opera de Lyon

Mamyrov (The Enchantress) — Vlaamse Opera Antwerpen

Concert Repertoire

Verdi’s Requiem (Madrid, Barcelona, Santander, Amsterdam, the Hague, Utrecht, Rotterdam)
Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 (Strasbourg, Rio de Janeiro, San Paolo)
Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 13 (Moscow, Warsaw, Bonn)
Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 14 (Turku, Helsingborg)
Moussorgsky’s Songs and dances of death (Helsingborg, Belgrad, Koblenz)

His chamber music repertoire includes works by Tchaikovsky, Rakhmaninov, Glinka, Mussorgsky, Borodin, Dargomyzhsky, Sviridov, Schubert, Schumann, Massenet, Brahms, Lysenko.

He often tours in Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Hungary, the Netherlands, Denmark, France, Germany, Czech Republic, Serbia, Poland, Slovenia, Brazil, South Korea and elsewhere.

He regularly collaborates with directors Zubin Mehta, Leif Segerstam, Sebastian Weigle, Michael Güttler, Giuliano Carella, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Valeri Gergiev, Mikhail Jurowsky Dmytry Jurowsky, and singers Jonas Kaufmann, Rene Pape, Anja Harteros, Ludovic Tezier, Ekaterina Gubanova, Matti Salminen, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Lyudmila Monastyrska and others.

Discography

2003

M. Glinka’s Russlan and Lyudmila

Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, conductor Alexander Vedernikov, PentaTone, CD (Russlan)

2005

Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 13

Beethoven Orchester Bonn, conductor Roman Kofman, CD

2006

Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 14

Beethoven Orchester Bonn, conductor Roman Kofman, CD

2006

Masterpieces of Russian music

conductor Alexander Vedernikov, CD

2009

“Pearls of Romances”

with Anastasia Titovych, piano, CD

2012

Giuseppe Verdi’s Luisa Miller

Malmö Opera Orchestra, conductor Michael Güttler, Arthaus Musik, DVD

2013

“Oh Lord, by your power…”

Orthodox sacred music, chorus master Yulia Tkach, CD

General partner of the Bolshoi Theatre — insurance company «Ingosstrakh»

Privileged sponsor of the Bolshoi Theatre — Tinkoff Bank

Privileged partner of the Bolshoi Theatre — GUM