Yuri Vorobiev

Prize-winner at the VI International Rimsky-Korsakov Young Opera Singers’ Competition (St Petersburg, 2004).

Yuri Vorobiev was born in Leningrad. He graduated from the Choral School of the Glinka Academic Capella in St Petersburg in 1998 and subsequently studied at the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire.
Soloist with the Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers from 2002.
Soloist with the Mariinsky Opera Company since 2009.

Roles performed at the Mariinsky Theatre include:
Svetozar (Ruslan and Lyudmila)
Podkolesin (The Marriage)
Happy Lad (Boris Godunov)
Surin (The Queen of Spades)
Bertrand (Iolanta)
Scribe (May Night)
Tokmakov, Vyazemsky (The Maid of Pskov)
Baron Wurmerhelm, Director (The Gambler)
Cook (The Love for Three Oranges)
Father Benedictine, Miguel, Mendoza (Betrothal in a Monastery)
Yard-Keeper, On-Duty Policeman, Heyduck (The Nose)
Yard-Keeper, Sentinel (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk)
Governor (Dead Souls)
Zosima (The Brothers Karamazov)
Colline (La bohème)
Antonio, Don Prudenzio (Il viaggio a Reims)
Ramfis (Aida)
High Priest of Baal (Nabucco)
Count Ceprano, Sparafucile (Rigoletto)
Grenvil (La traviata)
Pietro (Simon Boccanegra)
Il Marchese di Calatrava (La forza del destino)
Monk (Don Carlo)
Pistola (Falstaff)
Cesare Angelotti (Tosca)
Narbal (Les Troyens)
Zuniga (Carmen)
Voice of the Oracle of Neptune (Idomeneo, rè di Creta)
Masetto (Don Giovanni)
Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte)
Knight of Brabant (Lohengrin)
Second Knight of the Grail (Parsifal)
Truffaldino (Ariadne auf Naxos)
Crespel (Les Contes d’Hoffmann)
Archbishop (Król Roger)

The singer’s repertoire also includes Mozart’s Requiem and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 14.

In 2009 Yuri Vorobiev took part in the Music Festival Commemorating Two Hundred Years since the Birth of Nikolai Gogol (2009) and the VIII Moscow Easter Festival (performing as Burundai in The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia).