One vocally dramatic flash in the performance came with the scene at the inn on the Lithuanian border with Varlaam the monk performed by Denis Begansky, a soloist with the Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers. He succeeded in portraying just what elemental power lies hidden within a semi-literate people as soon as some extreme situation arises.
Sankt-Peterburgskie Vedomosti, 11 August 2020 (Boris Godunov at the All Together Opera festival in St Petersburg)
• Prize-winner at the Rimsky-Korsakov International Young Opera Singers' Competition (Tikhvin, 2018, 2nd prize in the chamber music category)
Denis Begansky was born in the city of Borisov (Minsk Region, Belarus). In 2006 he graduated from the college of the Belorussian Academy of Music, and in 2013 he graduated from the Russian Herzen Pedagogical University (class of Alexei Steblyanko, People's Artist of the RSFSR).
Was a soloist with the Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers during 2013–2023. Has toured with the company to Finland, Sweden, the Czech Republic, Great Britain, Italy and Germany. Has participated in the Baltic Sea Festival, the BBC Proms, the Festival of the Russian National Orchestra, All Together Opera, Stars of the White Nights and the Moscow Easter Festival.
Has appeared under such conductors as Leon Botstein, Vincent de Cort, Joseph Olefirowicz, Nikolaj Znaider, Esa-Pekka Salonen among others.
Since 2023 he has been a soloist with the Mariinsky Opera Company.
Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre:
Buff (Der Schauspieldirektor)
Dulcamara (L'elisir d'amore)
Baron Douphol (La traviata)
Second Soldier (Salome)
Podkolesin (The Marriage)
Skula (Prince Igor)
First Strelets (Khovanshchina)
Lavitsky the Jesuit (Boris Godunov)
General Polkan (The Golden Cockerel)
A Jester (The Tale of Tsar Saltan)
A Scribe (May Night)
A Guard (The Maid of Pskov)
Zaretsky, Rotny (Eugene Onegin)
Mamyrov (The Enchantress)
Bertrand (Iolanta)
The Giant (The Giant)
A Fat Englishman, Baron Wurmerhelm (The Gambler)
Tkachenko (Semyon Kotko)
General Belliard, Matveyev (War and Peace)
A Worker (The Fiery Angel)
A Convivial Fellow (Orango)
Mendoza and Father Augustine (Betrothal in a Monastery)
General Yepanchin (Weinberg’s The Idiot)
Kondurushkin (Not Love Alone)
Beorgor (Atsamaz Makoyev’s The Alans, Republic of North Ossetia–Alania Branch)
Red Sweater and Quilty’s Fellow Drinker (Lolita)
Ataman Platov (The Lefthander)
July, May, February (A Christmas Tale)
Atamansha (The Story of Kai and Gerda)
Yemelian Chernozemny (The Newly-Weds)
Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka (Shponka and His Aunt)
Don Basilio (Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia)
Hans Schwarz (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg)
Don Pasquale (Don Pasquale)
Frank (Die Fledermaus)
Balducci (Benvenuto Cellini)
Don Estoban (The Dwarf in concert)
Don Magnifico (La Cenerentola)
Role of Troikin in Shostakovich’s Antiformalist Rayok
In concert performances:
Publio (La clemenza di Tito)
Hortensius (La Fille du regiment)
Gubetta (Lucrezia Borgia)
Rolando (Gemma di Vergy)
Mustafà (L'italiana in Algeri)
Blansac (La scala di seta)
Praetor (La gazza ladra)
Crébillon (La rondine)
Valinov (Siberia)
The King (Le Roi d'Ys)
Bailiff (Werther)
The Prime Minister (Cendrillon)
Baron Ochs (Der Rosenkavalier)
Don Estoban (Der Zwerg)
Martin, King John (Candide)
The Commander's Statue (The Stone Guest)
Gispo and a Centurion (Servilia)
Dorosh (Pan Voyevoda)
Solopy Cherevik (Sorochintsy Fair, chamber version)
Prince Vereisky and Arkhip (Dubrovsky)
Christopher Lemm (The Noble Nest)
Yakov Matveyevich (Rothschild's Violin)
Pyotr Melekhov (And Quiet Flows the Don)
Domenichino (The Gadfly)
Gifliard (Colas Breugnon)
Hortensio (The Taming of the Shrew)
Vasily Vasilyevich and Second Surgeon (The Story of a Real Man)
Alexander Petrovich Bubentsov (Moscow, Cheryomushki)
Livery (Doctor Zhivago)
Skalozub (Woe from Wit)
Ilya Vasilievich (The Cossacks)
His repertoire also includes: Colas (Bastien und Bastienne), Dr Bartolo (Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia), Schaunard (La bohème), Varlaam, Mityukha (Boris Godunov), Frost, Bermyata, Maslenitsa (The Snow Maiden) and Malyuta Skuratov (The Tsar's Bride).
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