Dmitry Korchak Tenor

Biography

Born in Russia, Dmitry Korchak won in 2004 the international Singing Competition Francisco Viñas in Barcelona and then two prizes at Placido Domingo’s Operalia Competition in Los Angeles.

He quickly got invited to the most celebrated international operatic venues such as the Vienna Staatsoper, La Scala in Milan, the Royal Opera House in London, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Los Angeles Opera, Zurich Opernhaus, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Paris Opera, La Monnaie in Brussels, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Teatro Massimo in Palerma, the Munich Bayerische Staatsoper, the Hamburg Staatsoper, the Lyon National Opera, the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, the Baden-Baden Festival, the Salzburg Festival. Since 2008, he has been a regular guess at the Festival Rossini in Pesaro.

Dmitry Korchak is also a conductor: he was, from 2017 to 2020, Principal Guest Conductor at Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre, and he is a Guest Conductor at Mikhailovsky Theatre of St. Petersburg. Since 2018, Dmitry Korchak has been artistic director of the World Opera Workshop Laboratory for young singers. In 2009, he created a study programme in memory of his teacher Victor Popov for the students of his Alma Mater Academy of Choral Arts in Moscow, where he teaches every year.

During the season 2022/23, he portrayed Rodrigo (Otello) in Pesaro, Nadir (The Pearl Fishers) at Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Werther, Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) and Don Ramiro (La Cenerentola) at the Vienna Staatsoper, Rodolfo (La Bohème) at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, and the Prince (Rusalka) at La Scala in Milan.

This season will see him as Tamino (The Magic Flute) in Vienna, Nadir in Berlin and Palermo, Arnold (Guglielmo Tell) in Milan and Paolo (Maometto II) in Naples.

At the Paris Opera: L'elisir d'amore (Nemorino), 2007, 2009 ; Così fan tutte (Ferrando), 2013 ; I Purinati (Lord Arturo Talbot), 2013 ; Rigoletto (the Duke of Mantua), 2021 ; La Cenerentola (Don Ramiro), 2022

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