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Young Russian-American baritone, Vitali Rozynko has recently returned from numerous
successful debuts. Of his performance as Schaunard in Boston Lyric Opera’s
new production of La Bohème, the Boston Globe wrote that the best singing
came from Vitali Rozynko. He then went on to sing the Bach Cantatas with The
American Bach Soloists at the Berkeley Festival in California and made his
Italian debut at the Spoleto Festival as Salvatore in Menotti’s The Saint of
Bleecker Street under the baton of Richard Hickox which was recorded for
CHANDOS and nominated for a Grammy Award. He made his Boston Symphony
Orchestra debut as the Imperial Commissioner in their gala production of
Madama Butterfly under Seiji Ozawa in a celebration of Ozawa's twenty-five
years as music director of the BSO. In addition, Mr. Rozynko made his
Ravinia Festival debut as well as his Wigmore Hall debut in a gala
performance celebrating Sidonie Gossen’s 100th Birthday.
Recent engagements have included Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s Cantatas with
The American Bach Soloists, Masetto and the title role in Don Giovanni with
Opera Colorado, and recently Masetto in the highly publicised Don Juan in
Prague at the new Fisher Center for the Performing Arts. Engagements for the
2003-2004 season included a return to Opera Colorado as Schaunard in James
Robinson's production of La Bohème, a debut as Silvio in I Pagliacci with
Mississippi Opera, his debut as a soloist in Bernstein's Mass with
L'Orchestre National d'Ile de France, and a return to Bard for Francesca
Zambello's production of Shostakovich's The Nose. During the Spring of 2005
Mr. Rozynko sang the leading role in Hindemith's opera Sancta Susanna in the
acclaimed production by Margrith Vrenegoor with Opera Spanga which toured
the Netherlands and later a performance of Mozart's Requiem in Paris.
Mr. Rozynko has performed Harlekin in Ariadne auf Naxos in Lorenzo Mariani’s
production with Opera Colorado, Baron Douphol in La Traviata, Sciarrone in
Tosca, and the Second Philistine in Samson et Dalila at Cincinnati Opera,
Bello in La Fanciulla del West with Santa Fe Opera, Guglielmo in Cosi fan
tutte at the Aldeburgh Festival, Nardo in a production by James Robert
Carson of Die Gartnerin aus Liebe at the London Royal Opera, Masetto in Don
Giovanni at Chelsea Opera under Sir Colin Davis, Don Fernando in Fidelio
with the Rochester Philharmonic, and Mr. Bluff in The Impresario at the
Opera Theatre of Rochester.
Notable roles in his repertoire include Tarquinius in The Rape of Lucretia,
Count Almaviva and Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro, Le Gendarme in Les Mamelles
de Tiresias, Marcello in La Bohème, Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus, Sid in
Albert Herring, Maximillian in Candide, Prince Popolescu in Countess
Maritza, Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor, and Germont in La Traviata, as well
as an extensive repertoire of oratorio, song and sacred music. Notable
conductors with whom he has worked include Sir Colin Davis, Seiji Ozawa,
Leon Botstein, Kenneth Montgomery, Reinbert de Leeuw, Klauspeter Seibel,
David Agler, Robert Spano, David Levi, Stephen Lord, Richard Hickox and John Fiore.
In Autumn 2006, Mr Rozynko sang the baritone solo in the Lyrische Symphonie
by Zemlinsky with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. He then travelled to
California to sing Germont in a new production of La Traviata with Opera San
José, and to Spain to sing Jesus in the Johannes-Passion. He continued on to
Het Concertgebouw in the Spring to sing the role of Deceit in Gerald Barry's
opera The Triumph of Beauty and Deceit which marked his Concertgebouw debut.
During the summer 2007 Mr. Rozynko sang Marcello (La Boheme) in Italy. He
then went on to perform the role of Allazim (Zaide) with Opera Trionfo in a
new production by Elsina Jansen and Porgy Fransen which toured The
Netherlands. As well, during the Autumn of 2007, Mr Rozynko returned to the
Concertgebouw to take part in Zemlinsky's opera Der König Kandaules under
Bernard Kontarsky. He then went on to Salamanca and Burgos, Spain to sing
the role of Christ in Johannes Passion with Musica Poetica. Upcoming
engagements include Davenaut (Der Vampyr) in a new production for the
Grachtenfestival in Amsterdam this Summer, Mozart's Requiem with Musica Poetica, as well as the bass soloist in I Pellegrini del Sepolcro del Nostro Signore by Hasse, which will tour Europe.
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