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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.
Representation
Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt
Season Highlights
Video
Iurii Samoilov - Traum durch die Dämmerung
Iurii Samoilov sings Strauss Traum durch die Dämmerung Credit: Semperoper Dresden
PlayingIurii Samoilov - Die lustige Witwe
Iurii Samoilov sings Oh Vaterland from Lehar's Die lustige Witwe Credit: Semperoper Dresden,
PlayingIurii Samoilov - Grazie, grazie, troppo presto - Rossini - La Cambiale di Matrimonio
Rossini Opera Festival Pesaro 2020 - Orchestra Sinfonica G. Rossini Credit: Rossini Opera Festival Pesaro
PlayingIurii Samoilov as Count Danilo - Die Lustige Witwe
Opera Frankfurt Credit: Oper Frankfurt
PlayingIurii Samoilov - Billy Budd final rehearsals
Credit: The Bolshoi Theatre
Playing
Selected Repertoire
Bellini | I puritani (Sir Riccardo Forth) |
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Britten | Albert Herring (Sid) • Billy Budd (title role) • Peter Grimes (Ned Keene) |
Debussy | Pelléas et Mélisande (Pelléas) |
Donizetti | L’Elisir d’Amore (Belcore) • Lucia di Lammermoor (Enrico Ashton) • Don Pasquale (Malatesta)* |
Handel | Giulio Cesare (Giulio Cesare) |
Lehar | Die Lustige Witwe (Danilo) |
Leoncavallo | I Pagliacci (Silvio - under preparation) |
Mazzoli | Breaking the waves (Jan Nyman*) |
Menotti | The telephone (Ben) |
Monteverdi | Orfeo (title role*) |
Mozart | Così fan tutte (Guglielmo) • Don Giovanni (title role) • La Finta Giardiniera (Nardo) • Le Nozze di Figaro (Conte Almaviva) • Die Zauberflöte (Papageno) |
Prokofiev | The Gambler (Mister Astley) • War and Peace (Andrei Bolkonsky)* |
Puccini | La bohème (Marcello) • Gianni Schicci (Marco) • Manon Lescaut (Lescaut) • La fanciulla del West (Sonora) |
Rimsky-Korsakov | The Golden Cockerel (Tsarevich Afron) |
Rossini | Il 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*) |
Tchaikovsky | Eugene Onegin (title role) • Iolanta (Robert) • The Queen of Spades (Count Yeletsky) |
Weinberg | Der Idiot (Lebedjew) |
News
Press
Rossini La Cenerentola
Houston Grand OperaOct 2024 - Nov 2024Samoilov 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.
- D. L Groover, Houston Press
- 28 October 2024
As Dandini, Iurii Samoilov’s nimble stage manner suited the clever and mischievous valet, and his vibrant baritone underscored the comic prankster’s confidence.
- Gregory Barnett, Houston Chronicle
- 29 October 2024
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.
- Steven Brown, Texas Classical Review
- 26 October 2024