• Honoured Artist of Ukraine
• Recipient
of the 2nd prize at Plбcido Domingo’s international Operalia
competition (Paris, 2007).
Ukrainian tenor Dmytro Popov is gaining international recognition
as one of the most significant young artists to perform
before the public today. He has made important debuts at theatres
including the Royal Opera House (Covent Garden), the Deutsche Oper
in Berlin, the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, the Teatro
Regio in Turin, the Oper Stuttgart and the Opйra
de Monte-Carlo. In the 2012-13 season Popov will return
to the Royal Opera House for his first performances
as Rodolfo in La bohиme. He will also make his
debut with the Opйra de Lyon as Macduff
in Macbeth. In the spring of 2013 Popov
will make his first appearance with Opera Australia in Sydney
in his debut as Don Josй in Carmen.
Dmytro Popov studied in Kiev and made his professional debut
at the National Theatre in Kiev as Lensky in Eugene
Onegin. In the early years of his career
he also appeared in Kiev as Riccardo
in Un ballo in maschera, Enzo
in La Gioconda, Alfredo in La traviata
and the Duke in Rigoletto. He made his first
important international debut in Jonathan Miller’s production
of La traviata in Kristiansand, Norway. Popov
was then invited to sing as Nicias in Thaпs
under Gianandrea Noseda for his Italian stage debut
at the Teatro Regio in Turin. Popov has also performed
several roles with the Latvian National Opera in Riga including
Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore and the Prince
in Rusalka. In 2009 Popov made his debut
at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin as Pinkerton
in Madama Butterfly and has since returned there
as Cavaradossi in Tosca and as Rodolfo
in Luisa Miller. In the same year the singer began
to collaborate with the Oper Stuttgart, where he sang
as Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Rodolfo
in Luisa Miller and the Chevalier in Dialogues des
carmйlites. In 2011 Popov made debuts at the Bayerische
Staatsoper as the Prince in Rusalka and
at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, as Lykov
in a new production of Rimsky-Korsakov’s
The Tsar’s Bride. He also made his Spanish debut
as Vaudйmont in Peter Sellars’ new production of Tchaikovsky’s
Iolanta at the Teatro Real in Madrid under Teodor
Currentzis. He then returned to Riga for a new production
of Lucia di Lammermoor starring acclaimed soprano Marina
Rebeka. Popov also performed at the Opйra de Monte-Carlo
as Andrei in Tchaikovsky’s Mazepa
and at the 2012 Festival de Radio France
in Montpellier in Glinka’s A Life
for the Tsar. Popov sang Rachmaninoff’s The Bells
at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under Antonio
Pappano as well as with the Russian National Orchestra
in Moscow under Mstislav Rostropovich. He has also appeared
with the Orchestre symphonique de Montrйal under Kent
Nagano.