Yuri Vorobiev

Ensemble: Mariinsky Theatre St. Petersburg (since 2009)

Freelancer: Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Hamburg State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Canadian Opera Company, Salzburg Festival

Russian bass Yuri Vorobiev has been a principal artist with the Mariinsky Theatre St. Petersburg since 2009. His international guest engagements include appearances at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden as Colline (La Bohème), the Canadian Opera Company in Le Rossignol, and Deutsche Oper Berlin in Pique Dame and Khovanshchina. He has also performed at the Salzburg Festival in concert versions of Iolanta and Le Rossignol under Ivor Bolton, and at the Royal Opera House Muscat, Grand Théâtre de Québec, and Opéra de Lyon.

Mr. Vorobiev studied in Russia and was awarded First Prize at the Rimsky-Korsakov Young Opera Singers’ Competition in 2004. He has since developed a wide-ranging repertoire spanning Italian, German, and Russian works, and regularly collaborates with conductor Valery Gergiev on international tours.

His recent and upcoming appearances include Bartolo (Le nozze di Figaro) at the Hamburg State Opera (2019/20), Bertrand (Iolanta) and Gurnemanz (Parsifal) at Cité de la Musique in Paris (2020), and Banco (Macbeth) and Timur (Turandot) at the Mariinsky Theatre. He also portrayed Wotan in Das Rheingold at Cité de la Musique in 2018.

Mr. Vorobiev’s repertoire includes roles such as Rocco (Fidelio), Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), Zaccaria (Nabucco), Sparafucile (Rigoletto), and Fiesco (Simon Boccanegra). He is also noted for his interpretations in the Russian repertoire, with performances in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride, May Night, and The Maid of Pskov, Shostakovich’s The Nose, and Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades, Iolanta, and Eugene Onegin.

In 2004, Mr. Vorobiev was awarded First Prize at the Rimsky-Korsakov Young Opera Singers’ Competition.