Dmitry Ulyanov

 The Russian bass Dmitry Ulyanov has performed at leading opera houses and concert halls and prestigious festivals, among them the Vienna State Opera, the Paris Opéra, the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the ABAO Bilbao Opera, the Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. In 2017 he made his Salzburg Festival debut as Boris Timofeyevich Ismailov (Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District) under Mariss Jansons.

In the 2023/24 season Dmitry Ulyanov has sung the Grand Inquisitor (Don Carlos) at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, the title role of Boris Godunov at the Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre and at the Bavarian State Opera, Tsar Dodon in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Golden Cockerel for the Komische Oper Berlin and Daland (Der fliegende Holländer) at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing.

During his career he has worked with conductors including Thomas Sanderling, Teodor Currentzis, Renato Palumbo, Pedro Halffter, Giuseppe Finzi, Cornelius Meister, Ivor Bolton, Simone Young, Ingo Metzmacher, Pinchas Steinberg, Philippe Jordan and Lorenzo Viotti. Directors with whom he has collaborated include Graham Vick, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Peter Sellars, Adrian Noble, Peter Konwitschny, Tatjana Gürbaca, Laurent Pelly, Karoline Gruber, Martin Kušej, Krzysztof Warlikowski, Daniele Abbado, David McVicar and Kristiina Helin.

Dmitry Ulyanov has been a soloist with the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theatre in Moscow for more than twenty years. In addition to the roles already mentioned his extensive repertory includes Hermann (Tannhäuser), the four villains in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Raimondo (Lucia di Lammermoor), Prince Gremin (Eugene Onegin), Ramfis (Aida), Prince Ivan Khovansky (Khovanshchina) and Don Giovanni.