Sergei Leiferkus

Russian baritone Sergei Leiferkus was born in Saint Petersburg in 1946, and trained at the city’s conservatory before becoming a member of Kirov Opera Company in 1977; roles with the company included Andrei in Prokofiev’s War and Peace.

He debuted at the Metropolitan Opera as Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin in 1992 (stepping in for an unwell Thomas Hampson), and went on to appear at the house almost hundred times. Russian repertoire has played a key role in his career, both in the opera-house and the concert-hall - as well as Onegin, he was particularly acclaimed as Mazeppa, Aleko, Prince Igor and Tomsky in The Queen of Spades – though his repertoire also includes Iago, Amonasro and Guillaume Tell as well as Alberich, Klingsor and Telramund.

His discography includes the title-role in Rachmaninov’s The Miserly Knight and The Forester in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen from Glyndebourne on DVD, Mussorgsky songs with Vladimir Ashkenazy and Semion Skigin on Sony, Iago on Myung-Whun Chung’s 1994 recording of Otello (with Plácido Domingo in the title-role), Shostakovich orchestral songs with the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra and Thomas Sanderling on Deutsche Grammophon (‘Leiferkus bends and shapes his voice to the words and to the musical line so as to administer a double dose of causticity’ – Gramophone), and Rangoni on Claudio Abbado’s recording of Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov.

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