Biography

Dmitry Korchak

Current as of May 2024

The Russian tenor Dmitry Korchak is one of the most sought-after tenors of his generation. Since winning the Concurso Tenor Viñas in 2004 and receiving two prizes at Plácido Domingo’s Operalia Competition in Los Angeles, he has quickly established himself as a regular guest at the world’s most renowned opera houses and concert halls, including the Bavarian and Vienna State Operas, La Scala, Milan, the Teatro Real in Madrid, La Monnaie in Brussels, the Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona and the Teatro Massimo in Palermo.

In the 2023/24 season Dmitry Korchak sings the role of Paolo Erisso in Rossini’s Maometto II at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Arturo in I puritani at the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania and the title role in Les Contes d’Hoffmann at the Paris Opéra. He also returns to the Berlin State Opera as Nadir (Les Pêcheurs de perles) and to the Vienna State Opera as Ernesto (Don Pasquale) and Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), and performs the role of Arnold in a new production of Guillaume Tell in Milan. Highlights of the 2022/23 season included Pollione (Norma) in Palermo, Prince in Rusalka at La Scala, Milan, and his debut as Edgardo (Lucia di Lammermoor) at the Sferisterio Opera Festival in Macerata.

His other roles include Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore), Lensky (Eugene Onegin), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Ferrando (Così fan tutte), Count Almaviva (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Don Ramiro (La Cenerentola), Tonio (La Fille du régiment), Count Libenskopf (Il viaggio a Reims), Gualtiero (Il pirata) and the title roles in Werther and Robert le diable.

Since 2008 he has been a regular guest at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro. In 2009 he made his Salzburg Whitsun Festival debut in Jommelli’s Demofoonte under Riccardo Muti.

Dmitry Korchak was born in Russia and studied singing and conducting. From 2017 to 2020, he was first guest conductor at the State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre in Novosibirsk and inaugurated their new concert hall with a performance of Rossini’s Stabat Mater.

He appears on numerous audio and video recordings.

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