Age: 27
Nikolai Zemlianskikh’s recent opera roles include his debut at the Dutch National Opera as Nottingham in Roberto Devereux, Eletsky in Pikovaya Dama at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia, Albert in Werther at the Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden, and Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Teatro Verdi in Padova, where is also performed in Carmina Burana for the Operaestate Festival.
Previous appearances include Marcello in La bohème at the Bayerische Staatsoper and the title role in Eugene Onegin at the Teatro Massimo di Palermo, as well as roles at Ireland’s Wexford Festival Opera and the Salzburg Festival. As a member of the opera studio of the Bolshoi Theater, he made his house debut in the role of Lamplighter in The Story of Kai and Gerda.
Nikolai earned a master’s degree at the St. Petersburg Conservatory Rimski-Korsakov.
Principal Teachers
- Dmitry Vdovin
- Makvala Kasrashvili
- Svetlana Nesterenko
Major Competitions
- Semifinalist, Operalia, 2024
PROGRAMME
FIRST ROUND: ARIA
GAETANO DONIZETTI Forse in quel cor… Qui ribelle ognun
(Roberto Devereux)
GYÖRGY KURTÁG Monologue de Clov
(Fin de partie)
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY Kto mozhet sravnit’sya s Matil’doy moyey
(Iolanta)
FIRST ROUND: ART SONG
ROBERT SCHUMANN Lust der Sturmnacht
(Zwölf Gedichte, op. 35)
GIUSEPPE VERDI La preghiera del poeta
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY Serenada Don Zhuana
(Chest’ romansov, op. 38)
JULES MASSENET Élégie
MIKHAÏL GLINKA Poputnaya Pesnya
(Proshchaniye s Peterburgom)
HUGO WOLF Abschied
(Mörike-Lieder)
ART SONG PRIZE FINAL
ROBERT SCHUMANN Schöne Wiege meine Leiden
(Liederkreis, op. 24)
CALIXA LAVALLÉE L’absence
GEORGES BIZET J’aime l’amour
(Vingt mélodies, op. 21)
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY Les larmes
(Chest’ frantsuzskiy romansov, op. 65)
DIMITRI CHOSTAKOVITCH Liubov kapitana Lebyadkina
(Chetyre stikhotvoreniya kapitana Lebyadkina)
SEMIFINAL
FELIX MENDELSSOHN Es ist genug! So nimm nun, Herr, meine Seele!
(Elias)
GUSTAV MAHLER Ich hab’ ein glühend Messer
(Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen)
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY Uzhel ta samaya Tatyana
(Evgeny Onegin)
FINAL
ERICH KORNGOLD Mein Sehnen, mein Wähnen
(Die tote Stadt)
GIOACHINO ROSSINI Largo al factotum
(Il barbiere di Siviglia)
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY Ja vas lyublyu
(Pikovaya dama)
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