Dmitry Lavrov studied opera
at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire in St Petersburg
(2002 – 2007) and in 2010 he completed his postgraduate studies
there (class of Professor Vladimir Vaneyev). Dmitry first appeared onstage
as a student, singing the title role in Tchaikovsky’s opera
Eugene Onegin and Robert in
Iolanta.
Prize-winner at international vocal competitions including:
•
2nd prize at the International Shtokolov Vocal Competition
(St Petersburg, 2008);
• 1st prize at the Irina
Bogacheva International Vocal Competition (St Petersburg, 2009);
•
1st prize and the Emmerich Smola Award
in the category “Musical Debut” (Germany, 2011)
• and 2nd
prize at the Paris Opera Awards (Paris, 2013).
From 2007-2010 Dmitry Lavrov was a soloist of the St
Petersburg Chamber Opera Company, where he performed the roles
of Eugene Onegin in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, Don Giovanni
in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Yeletsky in Tchaikovsky’s
The Queen of Spades, Silvio in Leoncavallo’s I
pagliacci, Shchelkalov in Musorgsky’s Boris Godunov
and Podkolesin in Musorgsky’s The Marriage.
Lavrov joined the Young Artist Scholarship Programme
at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in 2010-2011 and moved
to a full FEST contract for 2011-2014. At he Deutsche
Oper his repertoire included:
Figaro in Rossini’s Il barbiere di
Siviglia,
Wolfram in Wagner’s Tannhдuser,
Silvio
and the prologue in Leoncavallo’s I pagliacci,
Escamillo and Moralиs in Bizet’s Carmen,
The Gaoler in Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmйlites,
Marullo in Verdi’s Rigoletto
and the role
of Miller in Montsalvatge’s El gato con botas.
This season at the Oper am Rhein Lavrov will be appearing as Figaro
in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Silvio in I pagliacci,
Escamillo in Carmen and the Count in Le nozze
di Figaro.
Dmitry has performed numerous concert programmes consisting of arias
from operas and operettas, romances and songs in the Great
and Small Halls of the St Petersburg and Moscow
Philharmonic Societies, the Great Hall of the St Petersburg
Academic Capella and the Tonhalle in Dьsseldorf.
In 2012
he sang the baritone role in Prokofiev’s cantata Ivan
the Terrible at the Auditorio Kursaal in San Sebastiбn
(Spain) with the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton
of Yuri Temirkanov. Dmitry sang at the grand opening gala
of the German AIDS Foundation (Dьsseldorf 2012).
In October
2013 he performed the baritone role in Rachmaninoff’s cantata
The Bells at the Tonhalle Dьsseldorf, conducted
by Ari Rasilainen.
In the 2013- 2014 season Dmitry will sing the role
of Prince Afron in The Golden Cockerel
by Rimsky-Korsakov with the Bergen National Opera (Norway).