Edem Umerov

Edem Umerov graduated from the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire in 1991. Since 1992, he has been a Lead Soloist of the St Petersburg Chamber Opera. In 1998, He joined the Mariinsky Opera. At the Mariinsky Theatre, he performs Boris Godunov, Rangoni, and Mityukha in Boris Godunov, Shaklovity in Khovanshchina by Modest Mussorgsky, Mazepa in Mazepa, Prince Kurlyatev and Ivan Zhuran in The Enchantress, Tomsky and Zlatogor in The Queen of Spades, and Ibn-Hakia in Iolanta by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Yushko Velebin in The Maid of Pskov and Grigory Gryaznoy in The Tsar’s Bride by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, the title role in Aleko by Sergei Rachmaninoff, Dolokhov and Denisov in War and Peace by Sergei Prokofiev, Tonio in Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo, the title roles in Nabucco, Macbeth, Rigoletto, and Falstaff, Ezio in Attila, and Amonasro in Aida by Giuseppe Verdi, the Mandarin in Turandot and Scarpia in Tosca by Giacomo Puccini, Telramund in Lohengrin, Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde, Alberich in Das Rheingold and Siegfried, Alberich and Gunther in Götterdämmerung, and Klingsor in Parsifal by Richard Wagner, the High Priest in Samson et Dalila by Camille Saint-Saëns, Jokanaan in Salome and Barak in Die Frau ohne Schatten by Richard Strauss, and the main roles in Król Roger by Karol Szymanowski and Duke Bluebeard’s Castle by Béla Bartók. The singer’s repertoire also includes the roles of Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin), Columbus (Alexander Smelkov’s Fifth Journey of Christopher Columbus), and Geronimo (Domenico Cimarosa’s Il matrimonio segreto). With the Mariinsky Opera, he has toured to Great Britain (the Royal Opera House), Italy (La Scala and the Ravenna Festival), Spain (the Madrid Royal Theatre), Germany, and Israel. As a Guest Soloist of the Mikhailovsky Opera, Edem Umerov performs baritone parts in the operas by Giacomo Puccini and Pyotr Tchaikovsky.