Damir Zakirov (Tenor) Damir Zakirov graduated cum laude from the Kazan Conservatoire in 2010. When a student, he performed Ernesto in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, the Child in Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges, Siébel in Gounod’s Faust, Yavtukh in Anisimova’s Viy, and Pedrillo in Mozart’sDie Entführung aus dem Serail. In 2010–2011, he was a soloist with the Musa Cälil Theatre in Kazan and with the Sapaev Mari Theatre in Yoshkar-Ola. Since 2012, he has been a soloist with the St Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire Theatre. Since 2013, he has been a guest soloist with the Zazerkalie Theatre in St Petersburg. Since 2014, he has been a guest soloist with the Komi Theatre. With governmental delegations of Tatarstan, he has toured to Brussels, London, Bangkok, Istanbul, Baku, and Moscow. Zakirov’s repertoire includes: Almaviva in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, Duke in Verdi’s Rigoletto, Alfred in Verdi’s La traviata, Lensky in Tchaikovsky’sEugene Onegin, Ferrando in Mozart’s Così fan tutte, Vaudémont in Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta, Berendey in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Snow Maiden, the Young Gypsy in Rachmaninoff’s Aleko, Vladimir in Borodin’s Prince Igor, Elisey in Pleshak’s Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights, Beppo in Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, the Yurodivy in Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov, Prince Alexis in Giordano’s Siberia, and the tenor parts in Mozart’s Requiem and masses by Mozart and Saint-Saëns. Since 2015, Damir Zakirov has been a guest soloist with the Mikhailovsky Theatre. In 2016, he performed Jewish Moneylender in Rachmaninoff’s Miserly Knight in the concert dedicated to the anniversary of Sergei Leiferkus at the Mikhailovsky Theatre. Nowadays, at the Theatre, he performs tenor parts in operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giacomo Puccini, Antonín Dvořák, and Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Here he also performed the Wood Spirit in the concert performance of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Snow Maiden under the baton of Dmitri Jurowski.
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