Dmitry Belosselskiy
Contact
For availability and general enquiries:
Mark Hildrew
Paul Meyer zu Schwabedissen
For contracts, logistics and press:
Rowan Bidmead
Representation
General management: Askonas Holt
Partner manager:
Melodramma - Giandomenico Bisi (Italy)
About Dmitry
Dmitry Belosselskiy is one of the most exciting basses of his generation; taking the operatic world by storm, and is celebrated by audiences and critics alike.
Dmitry starts this 23/24 season with Verdi’s Requiem and a new production of Nabucco at The Metropolitan Opera, New York both conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and also makes his role debut as König Marke in Tristan und Isolde at the Teatro Massimo Palermo. On the concert platform he will sing Verdi's Requiem with Myung-Whun Chung and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, and with Ludovic Morlot and the Orquestra Sinfónica de Barcelona y Nacional de Cataluña.
He has already established a remarkable career and has performed at the world’s finest opera houses and concert venues, including The Metropolitan Opera New York, Teatro alla Scala, Salzburger Festspiele, Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, Wiener Staatsoper, Opéra national de Paris, Chorégies d’Orange, Wagnerfestspiele in Bayreuth, Opernhaus Zürich, Teatro Real in Madrid, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Theater an der Wien, Washington National Opera, Canadian Opera Company Toronto, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia, and Bayerische Staatsoper Munich.
He has also appeared with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, as well as on the stages of Avery Fisher Hall, New York, Harris Theater, Chicago, John Hancock Hall Boston, Philharmonie Luxembourg, Wiener Konzerthaus, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Macau International Music Festival, Seoul Arts Center, Palm Beach Opera and Bregenzer Festspiele.
Representation
General management: Askonas Holt
Partner manager:
Melodramma - Giandomenico Bisi (Italy)
Season Highlights
Video
Dmitry Belosselskiy sings an excerpt from Zaccaria’s Act II aria “Tu sol labbro”
Verdi Nabucco at the Metropolitan Opera New York. Production: Elijah Moshinsky. Conductor: Daniele Callegari. Credit: Metropolitan Opera New York
PlayingDmitry Belosselskiy sings an excerpt from Mussorgsky’s Khovanshchina
Orchestre et Choeurs de l’Opéra national de Paris. Credit: Opera national de Paris
Playing
Selected Repertoire
Bartok | Bluebeard's Castle (title role) |
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Bellini | Norma (Oroveso) |
Berg | Wozzeck (Doctor) |
Berlioz | La Damnation de Faust (Méphistophélès) |
Bizet | Carmen (Escamillo) |
Boito | Mephistopheles (title role) |
Borodin | Prince Igor (Galitsky/Vladimir Yaroslavich) |
Cherubini | Medea (King Creon) |
Glinka | Ruslan and Lyudmila (Ruslan) • A life for a Tsar (Iwan Sussanin) |
Mozart | Don Giovanni (Comenndatore) |
Mussorgsky | Boris Godunov (title role, Pimen) • Khovanshchina (Dosifey, Iwan Khovansky) |
Puccini | Turandot (Timur) |
Rachmaninoff | Francesca da Rimini (Lanciotto Malatesta) |
Rimsky Korsakov | The Tsar’s Bride (Malyuta Skuratov) |
Saint-Saëns | Samson et Dalila (Un Vieillard Hebreu) |
Shostakovich | Lady Macbeth of Mtsenk (Old Convict, Boris) |
Strauss | Der Rosenkavalier (Baron Ochs) |
Tchaikovsky | Iolanta (King Rene) • Eugene Onegin (Prince Gremin) |
Verdi | Aida (Ramfis) • Macbeth (Banquo) • Nabucco (Zaccaria) • Simon Boccanegra (Fiesco) • Attila (title role) • La Battaglia di Legagno (Federico Barbarossa) • Il Trovatore (Ferrando) • Don Carlo (Filippo II, Inquisitore) • Rigoletto (Sparafucile) • Ernani (Da Silva) • La Forza del destino (Marchese di Calatrava) • Messa di Requiem • Luisa Miller (Walter, Wurm) • I verspri Siciliani (Procida) |
Wagner | Das Rheingold (Fafner) • Der Fliegende Holländer (Daland) • Die Götterdämmerung (Hagen) • Die Walküre (Hunding) • Siegfried (Fafner) • Tannhäuser (Landgraf Hermann) • Tristan und Isolde (König Marke) • Parsifal (Gurnemanz*) |
News
Press
Verdi Nabucco
Metropolitan Opera New YorkSep 2023 - Oct 2023Of the soloists, it is Zaccaria that dominates the first act, here commandingly sung by Dmitry Belosselskiy, his several arias all perfectly idiomatic.
- Seen and Heard International
- 08 January 2024
Il affronte crânement les difficultés de sa grande scène du premier acte 'Sperate o figli' [Translated] He bravely tackles the difficulties of his great Act I scene, 'Sperate o figli'
- Forum Opera
- 08 January 2024
Dmitry Belosselskiy was also reprising the role of the high priest Zaccaria. His robust bass rang out fierce and defiant
- New York Classical Review
- 29 September 2023
Belosselskiy, who returned as Zaccaria in “Nabucco,” sang attractively in “Vieni, o Levita.”
- New York Times
- 29 September 2023
In another role reprisal from 2016, Dmitry Belosselskiy displayed a rich and flowingly lyrical bass in his sage and subtle depiction of Zaccaria, the High Priest of Jerusalem.
- Bachtrack
- 29 September 2023