Yaroslav Petryanik

• Prize-winner at the VI All-Russian Nadezhda Obukhova Young Vocalists’ Competition (1^st prize, Lipetsk, 2014)
• Prize-winner at the IV International Maxim Mikhailov Young Opera Singers’ Competition (1^st prize, Kaluga, 2014)
• Prize-winner at the I International Young Opera Singers’ Competition Opera without Borders (4^th prize, Krasnodar, 2014)
• Prize-winner at the V International Rachmaninoff Music Competition (2^nd prize, St Petersburg, 2012)

Born in Rostov-on-Don. In 2013 he graduated from the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire (class of Nadezhda Drozdova-Weiner).
While a student, at the conservatoire’s theatre he performed the roles of Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), Ibn-Hakia (Iolanta) and Giorgio Germont (La traviata).

From 2013 to 2023 the artist was a soloist with the Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers. He made his Mariinsky Theatre debut in 2014, appearing in Musorgsky’s Salammbô. Since 2024 Yaroslav Petryanik has been a soloist with the Mariinsky Opera Company.

Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre:
Mizgir (The Snow Maiden)
Afron (The Golden Cockerel)
Pastor (Khovanshchina)
Gypsy (Sorochintsy Fair)
Fyodor Poyarok (The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya)
Leandro, Pantalon (The love for three oranges)
Father Chartreuse, Don Ferdinand (Betrothal in a Monastery)
Ivan Trofimov (Not Love Alone)
Lebedev, Afanasy Ivanovich Totsky (The Idiot)
The Letters of Van Gogh, mono-opera by Grigory Frid
Soldier (Soldier’s Tales)
Enrico (L'isola disabitata)
Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia)
Dandini (La Cenerentola)
Taddeo (L’italiana in Algeri, chamber version)
Dr Malatesta (Don Pasquale)
Alberich (Siegfried)
Sixtus Beckmesser (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg)
Giorgio Germont (La traviata)
Ser Amantio di Nicolao (Gianni Schicchi)
Sharpless (Madama Butterfly)
Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro)
Papageno (Die Zauberflöte)
Colas (Bastien und Bastienne)
Frank (Die Fledermaus)
A Music Master and Harlequin (Ariadne auf Naxos)
Fieramosca (Benvenuto Cellini)
Frédéric (Lakmé)
Sancho Pança (Don Quichotte)
Bass part in Stravinsky’s Renard

In concert performances:
Balearic Islander (Musorgsky’s Salammbô)
Olenin (The Cossacks)
Pasha Antipov (David Krivitsky’s Doctor Zhivago)
Zurga (Les Pêcheurs de perles)
Rambaldo (La rondine)
Le Comte de Nevers (Les Huguenots, Acts I and II, chamber version)

Together with singers of the Academy he appeared in a series of concert performances of Soviet operas and operettas including Antonio Spadavecchia’s The Gadfly (Martini), Dmitry Shostakovich’s Moscow, Cheryomushki (Boris Karetsky), Tikhon Khrennikov’s Into the Storm (Listrat), Vissarion Shebalin’s The Taming of the Shrew (Petruchio) and Dmitry Kabalevsky’s Colas Breugnon (title role).

In 2015, he sung title role of Rubinstein’s Demon at the Vladikavkaz Opera and Ballet Theatre. This season Yaroslav Petryanik appeared as Prince Nikita Kurlyatev in David Pountney’s production of The Enchantress at the Teatro di San Carlo.