Vasily Gerello |

Vasily Gerello

Vasily Gerello is called the most Italian baritone of the Mariinsky Theatre. Gerello began his musical education in Chernivtsi in Ukraine, then went to distant Leningrad, where he entered the conservatory under Professor Nina Aleksandrovna Serval. Already from the fourth year, Gerello sang at the Mariinsky Theater. During his student years, the singer made his foreign debut: on the stage of the Amsterdam Opera in the play “The Barber of Seville” by the famous Dario Fo, he sang Figaro.

Since then, Vasily Gerello has become a laureate of several international vocal competitions. Now he is successfully working on the stage of the Mariinsky Theatre, touring with the Mariinsky troupe around countries and continents, performing at the best opera venues in the world. The singer is invited by the largest opera houses in the world, including Opera Bastille, La Scala, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

Vasily Gerello received international recognition, in Italy he is called Basilio Gerello in his own way, and although the singer himself considers himself a Slav, he admits that from time to time Italian blood makes itself felt, because Vasily’s great-grandfather was an Italian, a native of Naples.

Vasily Gerello leads an active concert activity. He has appeared in the Young Pacific Soloists Concert at the San Francisco Opera House, performed a chamber solo program at the Chatelet Theatre, performed at New York’s Carnegie Hall and the Royal Albert Hall in London. The singer gives solo concerts on the stage of the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre, often gives charity concerts on the stages of St. Petersburg, and is also a participant in many international festivals, including the VII International Festival “Music of the Large Hermitage”, the XIV International Music Festival “Palaces of St. Petersburg ”, the Stars of the White Nights festival and the Moscow Easter Festival.

Vasily Gerello performs with world-famous conductors: Valery Gergiev, Riccardo Muti, Mung-Wun Chung, Claudio Abbado, Bernard Haitink, Fabio Luisi and many others.

Vasily Gerello – People’s Artist of Russia, Honored Artist of Ukraine. Laureate of the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World World Opera Singing Competition (1993); Laureate of the International Competition for Young Opera Singers. ON THE. Rimsky-Korsakov (1994st prize, St. Petersburg, 1999), laureate of the highest theater award of St. Petersburg “Golden Sofit” (XNUMX), laureate of the Fortissimo music award, established by the St. Petersburg State Conservatory. ON THE. Rimsky-Korsakov (nomination “Performing skills”).