A debut by Viktor Korotich

Baritone Viktor Korotich became a soloist with the Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers in 2007 and was an immediate sensation in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera Die Zauberflöte at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky The atre; Nezavisimaya Gazeta commented on the “young and charismatic” singer in the role of Papageno the  bird-catcher. Korotich’s repertoire at the  Mariinsky The atre consists largely of roles in classical Italian and German operas. In Georges Bizet’s Carmen the  singer has already performed the role of Le Dancaïre, while last season saw his debut as Belcore in Gaetano Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore.

This performance of Carmen will also see debuts by guest soloists; the role of Micaëla will be sung by Yekaterina Goncharova, soloist with the Opera Studio of the St Petersburg Conservatoire who has a “classical lyric spinto voice in the style of Tebaldi”, and the role of José will be sung by dramatic tenor Dmitry Polkopin, a lead soloist with the Moscow Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theatre. The title role will be performed by Anna Kiknadze.