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Representation
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 2023/24 season, he will make his company debuts at the Grand Teatre del Liceu for the title role in Eugene Onegin, the Irish National Opera for Marcello (La bohème), Olympia Municipal Music Theater Maria Callas in Athens for Sir Riccardo Forth (I puritani) and the Finnish National Opera for Eugene Onegin. On the concert platform Iurii will be soloist in the 2023 New Year’s Eve Concert of the Staatskapelle Dresden with Golda Schultz and Tugan Sokhiev.
Other recent highlights include his company debuts at The New York Metropolitan Opera as Schaunard in Zeffirelli’s legendary (La bohème), at Oslo’s Den Norske Opera in the title role of Eugene Onegin, at the Opéra national de Paris as Papageno (Die Zauberflöte) and with The Cleveland Orchestra as Sonora (La fanciulla del West). He also sang Marco (Gianni Schicchi) at the Salzburger Festspiele, Don Giovanni, and the Conte di Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro) at the Semperoper Dresden, Eugene Onegin at the Teatro di San Carlo and Conte di Almaviva at the Bucharest National Opera. On the concert platform he sang in a concert at the Philharmonie de Paris with the Orchestre de Paris conducted by Klaus Mäkelä and did a fundraising recital in Brucknerhaus Linz.
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 an 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
Puccini La bohème
Irish National OperaNov 2023Ukranian baritone Iurii Samoilov was superb as Marcello
- Gearoid O’Byrne, No More Workhorse
- 22 November 2023
The best thing about the production is the energy of the four bohemian lads: baritones Iurii Samoilov as the painter Marcello, and Gyula Nagy as the musician Schaunard; bass Lukas Jakobski as the philosopher Colline; and the earnest tenor Merūnas Vitulskis as the complex poet Rodolfo.
- Katy Hayes, Irish Independent
- 21 November 2023
As Marcello, baritone Iurii Samoilov shone wonderfully as he harrumphed in disgust at Musetta's Act 2 antics and provided good comic relief throughout the opera.
- Andrew Larkin, Bachtrack
- 21 November 2023