Sergey Skorokhodov

Sergey Skorokhodov graduated from the St Petersburg Glinka Choral School in 1993. Later he studied at the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire. In 1999, he joined the Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers. The same year, he made his debut with the Mariinsky Theatre as Guido Bardi in Zemlinsky’s Una tragedia fiorentina. In 2004 and 2005, he attended master classes conducted by Renata Scotto at the Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome.

Since 2007, he has been a soloist with the Mariinsky Theatre. At the Mariinsky Theatre, he performs Lensky in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, Vaudemont in Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta, Andrey Khovansky in Mussorgsky’s Khovanshchina, Grigory in Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov, Vladimir Igorevich in Borodin’s Prince Igor, Vakula in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Christmas Eve, Yaromir in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Mlada, Young Gypsy in Rachmaninoff’s Aleko, Ivan in Shostakovich’s Nose, Zinovy Borisovich in Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, Anatol Kuragin and Pierre Bezukhov in Prokofiev’s War and Peace, Pollione in Bellini’s Norma in concert, Edgardo in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Nemorino in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore, Ismaele in Verdi’s Nabucco, Foresto in Verdi’s Attila, Macduff in Verdi’s Macbeth, Alfredo in Verdi’s La traviata, the Duke in Verdi’s Rigoletto, Don Carlo in Verdi’s Don Carlo, Gabriele Adorno in Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra, Mario Cavaradossi in Puccini’s Tosca, Rinuccio in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, Erik in Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer, Lohengrin in Wagner’s Lohengrin, Tannhäuser in Wagner’s Tannhäuser, Bacchus in Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos, and Shepherd in Szymanowski’s Kròl Roger.

In 2010, he made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera with Shostakovich’s Nose. He appeared at the Bavarian State Opera (Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov, and Wagner’s Das Rheingold), Berlin State Opera (Verdi’s La traviata), Madrid Royal Theatre (Rimsky-Korsakov’s Golden Cockerel), Lyric Opera in Chicago (Verdi’s Nabucco), Dallas Opera and Monte Carlo Opera (Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta), and the Bolshoi Theatre among others. He participated in the Glyndebourne and Edinburg Festivals and in the Florence Musical May Festival. In season 2018/2019, he made his debut at La Scala in Mussorgsky’s Khovanshchina (conductor — Valery Gergiev). The singer’s répertoire also includes Jason in Cherubini’s Médée, and other roles.

Together with the Mariinsky Opera Company, he has toured to Amsterdam (Concertgebouw), Paris (Paris Opera), London (Barbican Hall and Coliseum), Stockholm (Stockholm Royal Opera), Finland (Mikkeli Music Festival), and Eilat (Red Sea Festival).

The title “Honored Artist of the Republic Bashkortostan” (2018)