Edem Umerov was born in Samarkand. In 1991 he graduated from the St
Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire (classes of Professors
Steblyanko, Okhotnikov and Zastavny). Lead soloist with the St Petersburg
Chamber Opera Company from 1992. Joined the Mariinsky opera Company in 1998.
Edem Umerov graduated from the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire in 1991. Since 1992, he has been a Lead Soloist of the St Petersburg Chamber Opera. In 1998, He joined the Mariinsky Opera. At the Mariinsky Theatre, he performs Boris Godunov, Rangoni, and Mityukha in Boris Godunov, Shaklovity in Khovanshchina by Modest Mussorgsky, Mazepa in Mazepa, Prince Kurlyatev and Ivan Zhuran in The Enchantress, Tomsky and Zlatogor in The Queen of Spades, and Ibn-Hakia in Iolanta by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Yushko Velebin in The Maid of Pskov and Grigory Gryaznoy in The Tsar’s Bride by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, the title role in Aleko by Sergei Rachmaninoff, Dolokhov and Denisov in War and Peace by Sergei Prokofiev, Tonio in Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo, the title roles in Nabucco, Macbeth, Rigoletto, and Falstaff, Ezio in Attila, and Amonasro in Aida by Giuseppe Verdi, the Mandarin in Turandot and Scarpia in Tosca by Giacomo Puccini, Telramund in Lohengrin, Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde, Alberich in Das Rheingold and Siegfried, Alberich and Gunther in Götterdämmerung, and Klingsor in Parsifal by Richard Wagner, the High Priest in Samson et Dalila by Camille Saint-Saëns, Jokanaan in Salome and Barak in Die Frau ohne Schatten by Richard Strauss, and the main roles in Król Roger by Karol Szymanowski and Duke Bluebeard’s Castle by Béla Bartók. The singer’s repertoire also includes the roles of Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin), Columbus (Alexander Smelkov’s Fifth Journey of Christopher Columbus), and Geronimo (Domenico Cimarosa’s Il matrimonio segreto). With the Mariinsky Opera, he has toured to Great Britain (the Royal Opera House), Italy (La Scala and the Ravenna Festival), Spain (the Madrid Royal Theatre), Germany, and Israel. As a Guest Soloist of the Mikhailovsky Opera, Edem Umerov performs baritone parts in the operas by Giacomo Puccini and Pyotr Tchaikovsky.
Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre includes: Boris
Godunov, Rangoni, Mityukha (Boris Godunov) Shaklovity (Khovanshchina)
Mazepa (Mazepa) Prince Kurlyatev, Ivan Zhuran (The Enchantress)
Tomsky, Zlatogor (The Queen of Spades) Ibn-Hakia (Iolanta) Yushko
Velebin (The Maid of Pskov) Grigory Gryaznoi (The Tsar’s Bride) Fyodor
Poyarok (The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya)
Igor Svyatoslavich (Prince Igor) Aleko (Aleko) Dolokhov, Denisov
(War and Peace) Tonio (I pagliacci) Nabucco (Nabucco) Ezio (Attila)
Macbeth (Macbeth) Rigoletto (Rigoletto) Amonasro (Aida) John
Falstaff (Falstaff) a Mandarin (Turandot) Scarpia (Tosca) Telramund
(Lohengrin) Kurwenal (Tristan und Isolde) Alberich (Das Rheingold,
Siegfried) Alberich, Gunther (Götterdämmerung) the High Priest (Samson
et Dalila) Jokanaan (Salome) Barak (Die Frau ohne Schatten) Klingsor
(Parsifal) Roger (Król Roger) Duke Bluebeard (Duke Bluebeard's
Castle)
The singer’s repertoire also includes the roles of Eugene Onegin (Eugene
Onegin), Columbus (Alexander Smelkov’s Fifth Journey of Christopher Columbus)
and Geronimo (Il matrimonio segreto).
Together with the Mariinsky Opera Company he has toured to Great Britain (the
Real Opera House, Covent Garden), Italy (La Scala, Ravenna Festival), Spain (the
Teatro Real), Germany (Baden-Baden) and Israel.
Edem Umerov - "Rigoletto" - MARIINSKY THEATRE
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Edem Umerov - "Rigoletto" - MARIINSKY THEATRE
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