Viktor Antipenko
Russian-American tenor Viktor Antipenko, praised for his effortless, expansive sound, and excellent technique, continues to sing leading roles to great acclaim and has become a singer to watch in the dramatic repertoire. In the 2023-24 season, he makes debuts at the Sydney Opera House singing Luigi in Il Tabarro under the baton of Lidiya Yankovskaya with Opera Australia; Pacific Opera Victoria performing Siegmund in Die Walküre; and Atlanta Opera where he reprises his signature role of Siegmund conducted by Arthur Fagen and directed by Tomer Zvulun. He also returns to the New National Theatre Tokyo of Japan to perform Lensky in Eugene Onegin. Mr. Antipenko is added to the roster of Lyric Opera of Chicago where he covers the role of Radames in Aida with Music Director Enrique Mazzola at the helm. In concert, he joins conductor Franz Krager for performances of Rachmaninoff’s The Bells with Moores School Symphony Orchestra alongside baritone Sergei Leiferkus and makes his San Diego Symphony debut performing Siegmund in an Act 1 concert of Die Walküre with Music Director Rafael Payare.
Last season Mr. Antipenko made house debuts at Scottish Opera for performances in Glasgow and Edinburgh as Luigi in Il Tabarro in a production by Sir David McVicar; and Lyric Opera of Kansas City debut as Don José in Carmen with Roberto Kalb on the podium. Mr. Antipenko returned to Staatstheater Kassel for Hermann in Pique Dame and Israeli Opera for his role debut as Manrico in Il Trovatore. He made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Pinkerton in the famous Anthony Minghella production of Madama Butterfly. Mr. Antipenko also made his role and house debut performing Radamès in Aida at the Israeli Opera conducted by Giuliano Carella and directed by Stathis Livathinos and debuted at Arizona Opera as Don José in Carmen under the baton of Christopher Allen. He rounded out the season by performing Scriabin’s Symphony #1 and Rachmaninoff’s The Bells under Leon Botstein as part of Bard’s SummerScape series.
He finished the 2020-21 season singing Siegmund in an Act 1 concert of Die Walküre at the Frischluft und Musick Festival Ortenau in Germany alongside Günther Groissböck and Cornelia Beskow under the baton of Michael Güttler. In the 2019-20 season, he sang Prince Guidon in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Golden Cockerel at Dallas Opera; the title role in Samson et Dalila at Tiroler Landestheater in Innsbruck; Florestan in Beethoven’s Fidelio with Theater Chemnitz; Gabriele Adorno in Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra with Tiroler Landestheater; Siegmund in Wagner’s Die Walküre for Theater Chemnitz; and a Don José in Carmen for a semi-staged concert version at Lotte Concert Hall in South Korea.
Previous roles also include Lensky (Eugene Onegin), Hermann (Pique Dame), Andrey (Mazeppa), Enzo Grimaldo (La Gioconda), Luigi (Il Tabarro), Grigori (Boris Godunov), Riccardo (Oberto), Erik (Der fliegende Holländer), and the title roles in Wagner’s Parsifal and Lohengrin. Mr. Antipenko has sung at the Bolshoi Theatre, Seattle Opera, Ópera de Oviedo, Opéra de Rouen, Theatro Municipal de São Paulo, Opéra de Lyon, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow, and Hawaii Opera Theater. On the concert stage, he has appeared as the tenor soloist in Rachmaninoff’s The Bells with The Philadelphia Orchestra; Shostakovich’s Jewish Folk Poetry at the Staatstheater Kassel; Kodály’s Psalmus Hungaricus with the New York Metamorphoses Orchestra; Stravinsky’s Les Noces at the Grand Philharmonie Hall in St. Petersburg, Russia; and at the Heidelberger Schlossfestspiele Musikfestival in an “Hommage a Sevilla” gala performance. Mr. Antipenko has worked with esteemed conductors Mikhail Pletnev, Vladimir Jurowski, Yuri Bashmet, John Neschling, Jordan de Souza, Ludovic Morlot, Yuri Temirkanov, as well as with stage directors Peter Konwitschny and Tomer Zvulun.
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