Mikhail Petrenko

Mikhail Petrenko (born 1976 in St. Petersburg, Russia) is an opera singer who sings bass.

Career

Highlights in the 2013–14 season included: a return to the Metropolitan Opera for Prince Galitsky (Prince Igor) and Netherlands Opera for Gounod's Faust. He also sang the role of Grand Inquisitor (Don Carlo) for the Verbier Festival. In January 2015, Petrenko returned to the Metropolitan Opera in the title role of a new production of Bluebeard's Castle. He has also performed in concerts with the Bamberger Symphoniker, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Roles that Petrenko has performed include:

• Ruslan (Ruslan and Lyudmila)
• Konchak, Prince Galitzky (Prince Igor)
• Prince Gremin (Eugene Onegin)
• King René (Iolanta)
• Pimen, Boris Godunov (Boris Godunov)
• Prince Ivan Khovansky (Khovanshchina)
• Prince Nikolai Bolkonsky, Marshal Davout (War and Peace)
• Malyuta Skuratov (The Tsar's Bride)
• Leporello (Don Giovanni)
• Bass (stage version of Verdi's Requiem)
• King Marke (Tristan und Isolde)
• Daland (Der fliegende Holländer)
• King Heinrich (Lohengrin)
• Fafner (Das Rheingold, Siegfried)
• Hunding (Die Walküre)
• Hagen (Götterdämmerung)
• Klingsor, Titurel (Parsifal)
• Hans Sachs (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg)

In November 2011, he performed the role of Ruslan (Ruslan and Lyudmila) at the reopening of Moscow's historic Bolshoi Theatre.

Filmography

• Metropolitan Opera Live in HD
  • Bluebeard's Castle (2015) ... Bluebeard
  • Prince Igor (2014) ... Prince Galitsky
  • Boris Godunov (2010) ... Pimen
• Götterdämmerung (2013 TV movie) ... Hagen
• Don Giovanni Juan (2010) ... Leporello
• Otello (2008 TV movie) ... Lodovico
• Benvenuto Cellini (2007 TV movie) ... Pope Clemens VII

External links

• Mikhail Petrenko at Operabase
• Mikhail Petrenko at Mariinsky Theatre
• Jennifer Melink, "Coming of Age", Opera News (February 2014)
• Mikhail Petrenko at Opera Online
• Mikhail Petrenko at IMDb