Iurii Samoilov
Baritone from Ukraine - 28 years old
Iurii is from Ukraine and received his Master’s degree from the National Music Academy with honours, studying with Roman Mayboroda. He was also a guest student at the Dutch National Opera Academy and a member of the Opera Studio Nederland in Amsterdam. He has taken part in numerous academies and projects such as the Solti Te Kanawa Academy and Accademia Rossiniana (Pesaro), Mozart Academy (Aix-en-Provence) and the Young Singers Project (Salzburg).
Festivals and theatres which Iurii has performed at include Teatro Real Madrid, Bolshoi Theater Moscow, Dutch National Opera, Theater Basel, Salzburg Festival, Rossini Opera Festival, Operadagen Festival Rotterdam, Vilnius City Opera, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Royal Albert Hall and Frankfurt Alte Oper.
He’s an ensemble member at Frankfurt Opera where he debuted as Marcello (La Boheme), Dandini (Cenerentola), the title role in Don Giovanni, Conte (Le Nozze di Figaro), Enrico (Lucia di Lammermoor) and the title role in Eugene Onegin, amongst others.
This coming season he will sing Guglielmo (Cosi fan tutte) and Ned Keene (Peter Grimes) in Frankfurt and will return to the Bolshoi Theater Moscow in the title role of Billy Budd.
Repertoire
| Main prize rep | Concert 3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Hai già vinta la causa! ... Vedrò mentr’io sospiro | Le nozze di Figaro | Mozart |
| Billy in the darbies | Billy Budd | Britten |
| Do not sing, my beauty | Romance Op 4 No 4 | Rachmaninov |
| Song prize | Recital | |
|---|---|---|
| In the midst of the ball | Op 38 No 3 | Tchaivkosky |
| Don Juan’s serenade | Op 38 No 1 | Tchaikovsky |
| Yesterday we met | Op 26 No 13 | Rachmaninov |
| I am alone again | Op 26 No 9 | Rachmaninov |
| In the silence of the night | Op 4 No 3 | Rachmaninov |
| Non t’amo più! | Tosti |
| Song prize final | ||
|---|---|---|
| In the midst of the ball | Op 38 No 3 | Tchaikovsky |
| Don Juan’s Serenade | Op 38 No 1 | Tchaikovsky |
| Nell’ orror di note oscura 6 romanze | No 4 | Verdi |
| Stornello | Verdi | |
| Yesterday we met | Op 26 No 13 | Rachmaninov |
| I am alone again | Op 26 No 9 | Rachmaninov |
| In the silence of the night | Op 4 No 3 | Rachmaninov |
