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Grace Hewett

Grace Hewett

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Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt

About Iurii

Iurii Samoilov is one the most exciting and versatile baritones of his generation. Although still young, he has already appeared at some of the most renowned opera houses and festivals, including The Metropolitan Opera, Opéra national de Paris, Teatro Real in Madrid, La Monnaie in Brussels, Semperoper Dresden, Dutch National Opera, Salzburg Festival, Rossini Opera Festival, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Royal Albert Hall in London and Brucknerhaus in Linz, working with many of the great conductors such as Franz Welser-Möst, Antonio Pappano, Alain Altinoglu, Riccardo Frizza, Tadaaki Otaka, Ivor Bolton and Pablo Heras-Casado.

This 2024/25 season, Iurii will make his house debut at Houston Grand Opera as Dandini La Cenerentola, and make returns to Teatro Real Madrid as Eugene Onegin and Opéra National de Paris as Marco Gianni Schicchi. On the concert platform, he will return to Cleveland to sing Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with the Cleveland Orchestra and again later in the season with Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich.

Recent highlights include his house debuts at the Metropolitan Opera as Schaunard in La bohème, Lukyan Timofeyevich Lebedev The Idiot at Salzburger Festspiele, Grand Teatre del Liceu for the title role in Eugene Onegin, Irish National Opera for Marcello La bohème, Oslo's Den Norske Opera and Finnish National Opera in the title role of Eugene Onegin, Opéra National de Paris as Papageno in Die Zauberflöte, Cleveland Orchestra as Sonora La faniulla del West, Olympia Municipal Music Theater Maria Callas in Athens for Sir Riccardo Forth I puritani, On the concert platform Iurii was the soloist in the 2023 New Year’s Eve Concert of the Staatskapelle Dresden under conductor Franz Welser-Möst.

Iurii grew up in Yuzhne, a small port city in Ukraine, and in 2011 received his master's degree with honors from the National Music Academy in Kyiv, where he studied vocal performance with Roman Mayboroda. During this period, he undertook postgraduate studies at the Dutch National Opera Academy and became a member of the Opera Studio Nederland in Amsterdam.

Iurii is based in Berlin

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Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt

Season Highlights

Aug 2024
Salzburger Festspiele
Weinburg The Idiot (Lukjan Timofejewitsch Lebedjew) Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla (conductor)
Oct 2024 - Nov 2024
Houston Grand Opera
Rossini La Cenerentola (Dandini) Lorenzo Passerini (conductor)
Nov 2024
Mandel Concert Hall, Cleveland
Mahler Das Lied von der Erde The Cleveland Orchestra Franz Welser-Möst (conductor)

Selected Repertoire

BelliniI puritani (Sir Riccardo Forth)
BrittenAlbert Herring (Sid)   •   Billy Budd (title role)   •   Peter Grimes (Ned Keene)
DebussyPelléas et Mélisande (Pelléas)
DonizettiL’Elisir d’Amore (Belcore)   •   Lucia di Lammermoor (Enrico Ashton)   •   Don Pasquale (Malatesta)*
HandelGiulio Cesare (Giulio Cesare)
LeharDie Lustige Witwe (Danilo)
LeoncavalloI Pagliacci (Silvio - under preparation)
MazzoliBreaking the waves (Jan Nyman*)
MenottiThe telephone (Ben)
MonteverdiOrfeo (title role*)
MozartCosì fan tutte (Guglielmo)   •   Don Giovanni (title role)   •   La Finta Giardiniera (Nardo)   •   Le Nozze di Figaro (Conte Almaviva)   •   Die Zauberflöte (Papageno)
ProkofievThe Gambler (Mister Astley)   •   War and Peace (Andrei Bolkonsky)*
PucciniLa bohème (Marcello)   •   Gianni Schicci (Marco)   •   Manon Lescaut (Lescaut)   •   La fanciulla del West (Sonora)
Rimsky-KorsakovThe Golden Cockerel (Tsarevich Afron)
RossiniIl cambiale di Matrimonio (Slook)   •   Il barbiere di Siviglia (Figaro)   •   La Cenerentola (Dandini)   •   Il Viaggio a Reims (Don Alvaro)   •   Le siege de Corinthe (Omar)   •   Il turco in Italia (Prosdocimo*)
TchaikovskyEugene Onegin (title role)   •   Iolanta (Robert)   •   The Queen of Spades (Count Yeletsky)
WeinbergDer Idiot (Lebedjew)

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  • Rossini La Cenerentola

    Houston Grand Opera
    Oct 2024 - Nov 2024
    • Samoilov has an effortless, star-turning way on stage, maneuvering through Rossini’s treacherous style with room to spare. Everything he sings sounds easy. And he sings magnificently.

    • As Dandini, Iurii Samoilov’s nimble stage manner suited the clever and mischievous valet, and his vibrant baritone underscored the comic prankster’s confidence.

    • baritone Iurii Samoilov threw himself into the pseudo-prince overkill—swaggering and preening but smiling, too, lending the act a bit of charm. Samoilov sang with spirit and red-bloodedness, giving the music exuberance amid the antics.