Dmitry Ulyanov

The award-winning Russian bass Dmitry Ulyanov has been a soloist at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre in Moscow for more than twenty years. His wide-ranging repertory encompasses roles including Hermann in Wagner’s Tannhäuser, the four villains Lindorf, Coppélius, Dapertutto and Miracle in Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Raimondo Bidebent in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Prince Gremin in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, Ramfis in Verdi’s Aida, Prince Ivan Khovansky in Musorgsky’s Khovanshchina and Don Giovanni.

He has appeared in productions at numerous renowned opera houses, concert halls and festivals such as the Opéra national du Rhin, Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Israeli Opera, the Bolshoi, Opera Vlaanderen, Dutch National Opera, Vienna State Opera, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Opéra Bastille, the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing and the Aix-en-Provence Festival. Since 2011 he has enjoyed particularly strong collaborations with Spanish companies such as the Teatro Real, the Teatro de La Maestranza, the ABAO Bilbao Opera and the Liceu Opera, Barcelona.

Dmitry Ulyanov made his debut at the Salzburg Festival in 2017 as Boris Timofeyevich Ismailov in Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsenk in Andreas Kriegenburg’s production, under the musical direction of Mariss Jansons.

Throughout his illustrious career Ulyanov has worked with many leading conductors and directors, among them Thomas Sanderling, Teodor Currentzis, Renato Palumbo, Pedro Halffter, Giuseppe Finzi, Cornelius Meister, Ivor Bolton, Simone Young, Ingo Metzmacher, Pinchas Steinberg, Philippe Jordan and Lorenzo Viotti, and Graham Vick, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Peter Sellars, Adrian Noble, Peter Konwitschny, Tatjana Gürbaca, Laurent Pelly, Karoline Gruber, Martin Kušej, Krzysztof Warlikowski, Daniele Abbado, David McVicar and Kristiina Helin.

In 2019/20, prior to the coronavirus pandemic, Dmitry Ulyanov sang two roles in two different productions of Verdi’s Don Carlos: the Grand Inquisitor at Vienna State Opera and Philip II at Teatro Real. Other engagements that season included Prince Galitsky in Borodin’s Prince Igor for the Opéra Bastille and the Varangian guest in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sadko at the Bolshoi. The bass resumed performances in May and July 2021, when he performed at the Opéra National de Lyon and the Aix-en-Provence Festival as Tsar Dodon in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Golden Cockerel (directed by Barrie Kosky, and conducted by Daniele Rustioni). Highlights of the 2021/22 Season have included two Prokofiev productions by Calixto Bieito: War and Peace (Geneva) and The Fiery Angel (Madrid), in which Ulyanov respectively appeared in the roles of Field Marshall Mikhail Kutuzov and Johann Faust.