Stanislav Shvets

Stanislav Shvets graduated from the Moscow State Conservatoire in 1997. He made his debut with the Ireland Opera as Banco in Verdi’s Macbeth. He has appeared with the Bolshoi and Mariinsky Theatres and with the opera houses of Paris, San-Francisco, Berlin, Frankfurt, Monte-Carlo, Toronto, Barcelona, Santiago and participated in Salzburg and Glyndebourne Festivals. He cooperates with Lorin Maazel, Valery Gergiev, Mikhail Pletnev, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Vladimir Jurowski, James Conlon, Jesús López-Cobos, Evgeny Kolobov, Teodor Currentzis, and many others. His répertoire includes Don Basilio (Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia), Leporello (Mozart’s Don Giovanni), Figaro (Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro), Count Rodolfo (Bellini’s La sonnambula), Zaccaria (Verdi’s Nabucco), Monterone and Sparafucile (Verdi’s Rigoletto), Pistola (Verdi’s Falstaff), Banco (Verdi’s Macbeth), Daland (Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer), Heinrich der Vogler (Wagner’s Lohengrin), Pimen (Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov), King of Clubs (Prokofiev’s Love for Three Oranges), and others. In 2012, Stanislav Shvets performed Ramfis in the première production of Verdi’s Aida directed by Stephen Medcalf with the Royal Symphonic Orchestra under the baton of Andrew Greenwood at the London Albert Hall. In 2014, he participated in the performance of Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov revised by Dmitry Shostakovich.

Nowadays, Stanislav Shvets is a soloist of the Helicon Opera and a guest soloist of the Mikhailovsky Opera. At the Mikhailovsky Theatre, he has performed Don Basilio in the concert performance of Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia under the baton of Mikhail Tatarnikov and Father Frost in the concert performance of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Snow Maiden under the baton of Dmitri Juriwskoi. Here he also performs Daland in Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer.