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Dmitry Skorikov

Born in 1974 in the city of Ruza, Moscow Region. In 1996 he graduated from the Music College at the Moscow State P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory with a degree in choral conducting (class of Professor I. G. Agafonnikov). In 2002 he graduated with honors from the Schnittke Moscow State Institute of Music with a degree in solo singing (class of Professor A. S. Belousova). Since 2002 he has been a soloist of the Moscow musical theater “Helikon-Opera”. Winner of the 2008 Romansiada Without Borders contest.

As part of the “Helikon-Opera” troupe, he toured to Spain, France, Holland, Israel, etc. Performs solo concerts, which sound old and classical Russian romances, Russian folk songs, opera and chamber works by Glinka, Dargomyzhsky, Mussorgsky, Borodin, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Sviridov, Mozart, Rossini, Verdi, Delibes, Gounod, Gershwin and others.

Repertoire: Don Pasquale (Don Pasquale by Donizzetti), Don Bartolo (Rossini’s The Barber of Seville), Leporello (Mozart’s Don Giovanni), Publius (Mozart’s The Mercy of Titus), Figaro (Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro), Vodyanoy (Dvořák’s Mermaid), Kochubey (Tchaikovsky’s Mazepa), Gremin (Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin), Lawyer Kolenatiy (Janáček’s Makropoulos), Ramfis (Verdi’s Aida), Priest (Verdi’s Nabucco) , Boris Godunov, Pimen, Varlaam (Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov), Sobakin, Malyuta Skuratov (Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride), Bogatyr (Rimsky-Korsakov’s Kashchei the Immortal), Mikael (Bach’s Peasant Cantata) , Starodum (“Coffee Cantata” by Bach), Georges, Lefort (“Peter the Great” by Gretry), Leo, Director of the Theater (“Pyramus and Thisbe” by Lamp), Fedot (“Not Only Love” by Shchedrin), Zuniga (“Carmen” by Bizet ), Frank (“The Bat” by Strauss), Zhevadov (“Rasputin” by Riza), Captain (“Siberia” by Giordano), etc.