Sergei Leiferkus
Sergei Leiferkus has appeared with major opera companies
and symphony orchestras in the West since the early 1980s,
when he made his début with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
under Kurt Masur. Since then he has appeared frequently at
the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; the Vienna State
Opera; the Opera Bastille, Paris; La Scala, Milan; San Francisco
Opera; the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Netherlands Opera,
Amsterdam; Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires and at the Edinburgh,
Bregenz, Glyndebourne and Salzburg Easter Festivals. He has
also appeared with orchestras such as the London Symphony,
Boston Symphony, New York Philharmonic and Philadelphia
Orchestra under major conductors including Claudio Abbado,
Valery Gergiev, James Levine, Bernard Haitink, Zubin Mehta,
Riccardo Muti, Seiji Ozawa and Sir Georg Solti.
His operatic roles include Eugene Onegin (Eugene Onegin), Mazeppa (Mazeppa), Telramund (Lohengrin), Klingsor (Parsifal), Don Pizarro (Fidelio), Amonasro (Aida), Don Carlo (La forza del destino), Scarpia (Tosca), Don Giovanni (Don Giovanni), Mephistopheles (La damnation de Faust), Escamillo (Carmen), Rangoni (Boris Godunov ), Prince Igor (Prince Igor ), Iago (Othello), Nabucco (Nabucco), Macbeth (Macbeth), Simon Boccanegra (Simon Boccanegra) and many others.
Sergei Leiferkus has recorded for BMG/Conifer (with whom he has recorded the complete songs of Mussorgsky, the first volume of which was nominated for a Grammy award, the second volume of which won a 1997 Cannes Classical award and the same year three of the CDs were awarded a Diapason d’Or), Decca, Philips, DG, Chandos, Sony and Teldec, and videos of his operatic performances are available on Kultur, RM Arts, National Video Corporation and others.
Future engagements include Telramund in Lohengrin at the Dallas Opera and Deutsche Oper Berlin, The Bells with the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, title role in Eugene Onegin in concert performances with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington DC conducted by Leonard Slatkin, Telramund in concert performances of Lohengrin with the New Japan Philharmonic and Alberich in concert performances of The Ring with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kent Nagano.
His operatic roles include Eugene Onegin (Eugene Onegin), Mazeppa (Mazeppa), Telramund (Lohengrin), Klingsor (Parsifal), Don Pizarro (Fidelio), Amonasro (Aida), Don Carlo (La forza del destino), Scarpia (Tosca), Don Giovanni (Don Giovanni), Mephistopheles (La damnation de Faust), Escamillo (Carmen), Rangoni (Boris Godunov ), Prince Igor (Prince Igor ), Iago (Othello), Nabucco (Nabucco), Macbeth (Macbeth), Simon Boccanegra (Simon Boccanegra) and many others.
Sergei Leiferkus has recorded for BMG/Conifer (with whom he has recorded the complete songs of Mussorgsky, the first volume of which was nominated for a Grammy award, the second volume of which won a 1997 Cannes Classical award and the same year three of the CDs were awarded a Diapason d’Or), Decca, Philips, DG, Chandos, Sony and Teldec, and videos of his operatic performances are available on Kultur, RM Arts, National Video Corporation and others.
Future engagements include Telramund in Lohengrin at the Dallas Opera and Deutsche Oper Berlin, The Bells with the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, title role in Eugene Onegin in concert performances with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington DC conducted by Leonard Slatkin, Telramund in concert performances of Lohengrin with the New Japan Philharmonic and Alberich in concert performances of The Ring with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kent Nagano.
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