Dmitry Belosselskiy
Contact
Mark Hildrew
Paul Meyer zu Schwabedissen
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 24/25 season with his house debut as Gremin Eugene Onegin at The Royal Ballet and Opera. Following this, he will make returns to the Metropolitan Opera to sing Ramfis in a new production of Aida by Michael Mayer and later to Bayerische Staatsoper for Inquisitore Don Carlos. On the concert platform he will sing Shostakovich Symphony No. 13 with Orchestre National de Lille, before spending the Summer in Leipzig at the Shostakovich Festival to sing Old Convict Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and Symphony No. 14.
Recent concert appearances include Verdi’s Requiem at the Metropolitan Opera with Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande with Myung-whun Chung and Ludovic Morlot and and the OrquestraSinfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya. He also sang Boris Timofeyevich Ismailov Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk with Boston Symphony Orchestra in concert performances at Symphony Hall Boston and Carnegie Hall.
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.
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