The coming season 2018/2019 sees Vladislav Sulimsky emerge as a leading exponent of the Verdi baritone repertoire. He makes his debut at the Berlin Staatsoper as Il Conte di Luna and he sings Iago in a new production of Otelloat the Wiener Staatsoper. This follows his 2018 debut at the Salzburg Festival in a new production of Pique Dame conducted by Mariss Jansons. He will also take the title role in Verdi’s Rigoletto at The Wiesbaden State Theatre.

In 2002, baritone Vladislav Sulimsky won first prize at the International Rimsky-Korsakov Competition in St Petersburg. He subsequently became a soloist at the Mariinsky Theatre, where he continues to give critically acclaimed performances of the title roles of Eugene Onegin, Simone Boccanegra, Macbeth, Rigoletto and Gianni Schicchi, as well as roles such as Rodrigo/Don Carlo, Don Carlo/La Forza del Destino, Renato/Un Ballo in Maschera……

Notable awards include second prize at the International Elena Obraztsova Competition in Moscow in 2006, first prize at the International Giacomo Lauri-Volpi Competition in Italy, and a Grammy Award Nomination for his recording of The Nose by Shostakovich with Valery Gergiev in 2009.

On the international stage he made his 2012 Swedish opera debut at the Malmö Opera in Luisa Miller (Verdi), returning to sing Onegin under Michail Jurowski, and appearing at the Stockholm Royal Opera as Renato. In Europe he sang Rodrigo at the Baden-Baden Festival, Prince Krljatew in Tchaikovsky’s Charodeyka at the Theater an der Wien and made his Swiss debut at the Basel theatre in the title role of Macbeth. Summer 2016 saw his Edinburgh International Festival debut singing Alberich/Das Rheingold.

Recent performances include Tomsky, Pique Dame at Stuttgart, Mazeppa at the Oviedo Opera, and his debut as Rigoletto at the Sankt Margarethen Opera Festival, and his return to Dallas Opera as Germont/La Traviata.

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