Russian Bass Mischa Schelomianski opens the 2007/08 season with Verdi’s Messa di Requiem with the Bamberger Symphoniker under Jonathan Nott. He will then sing Gremin in Eugen Onegin at the Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, Die Zarenbraut at the Oper Frankfurt, the New Year’s Concert of the MDR Leipzig, and once again Gremin in a new production of Onegin at the Glyndebourne Festival.

In the previous season he performed in new productions at the Opéra National de Paris in Ballo in maschera, the Opéra du Rhin Strasbourg in Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex and Rossignol as well as the Opéra National de Lyon in Eugen Onegin. He sang Schumann’s Faust-Szenen with the Orchestre de Paris at Salle Pleyel and Osmin in two concert performances of Entführung aus dem Serail at the Schleswig-Holstein Musikfestival, where he has already successfully debuted as Wassermann in Dvorak’s Rusalka.

In 2005/06 Mischa Schelomianski was a guest performer at the Opéra National de Paris (Prokofiev’s War and Peace), the Staatsoper Hamburg (Seneca in L’incoronazione di Poppea and Filippo in Don Carlo), the Oper Frankfurt (Ballo in Maschera), the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic (Verdi’s Messa da Requiem), MDR Leipzig (Mendelssohn’s Erste Walpurgisnacht) and the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire (Mozart’s Requiem).

He sang concerts and oratories at the Rheingau Musikfestival, Musikhalle Hamburg, Glocke Bremen, Philharmonie Berlin, Tonhalle Düsseldorf, Tonhalle Zürich, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Philharmonie München, with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, and in Stuttgart, Maastricht, Hilversum, Gothenburg, The Hague, Amsterdam and the USA for the Oregon Bach Festival. He has also collaborated with Marc Albrecht, Christoph Eschenbach, Arthur Fagen, Justus Frantz, Alan Gilbert, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Kirill Petrenko, Ingo Metzmacher, Bruno Weil, Lawrence Renes, Olaf Henzold, Stefan Soltesz, Alessandro de Marchi, Alexander Joel, Vladimir Jurowski, Helmut Rilling and Mario Venzago.

Working with renowned stage directors such as Nikolaus Lehnhoff, Robert Carson, Harry Kupfer, Christine Mielitz and Peter Konwitschny, Mischa Schelomianski has appeared at the Grand Théatre de Genève, the Vlaamse Opera Antwerp and Gent, the Dutch Reiseopera, the Wiener Volksoper, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and the Landestheater Salzburg. Further opera engagements led him to Potsdam, to the Händelfestspiele Halle, the Brühler Schlossfestspiele, the Staatstheater Mainz, the Nationaltheater Mannheim, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden and the Komische Oper Berlin.

Mischa Schelomianski grew up in Moscow. After studying communications engineering he transferred to Moscow High School for Culture and finished his studies in singing and as chorus master. Later he graduated at Frankfurter Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst under Prof. Berthold Possemeyer in postgraduate studies of opera and concert.

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