Nikolai Schukoff, Tenor

Austrian tenor Nikolai Schukoff starts the 2020/21 season with a veritable rediscovery:  the Theater an der Wien is presenting a new production of Leoncavallo’s Zaza with  Nikolai Schukoff in the role of Milo Dufresne. The Theater an der Wien will also present  the tenor in the double role of Agrippa / Mephisto in a new production of Prokofieff's Fiery  Angel (director: Andrea Breth). Schukoff is expected to make his scenic debut as Verdi's  Otello at the Opera of St. Etienne. 

The most important commitments of the past seasons include concert performances of Oedipus Rex in Madrid, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 under Simone Young in Tokyo,  Parsifal in a new production of the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, Boris in Katia  Kabanova at the Teatro del Liceu Barcelona, the world premiere of Glanert's Oceane at  the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Jim Mahoney in Weill's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny in Aix-en-Provence, Mahler's Symphony No. 8 under Dmitri Kitajenko in Zagreb and  under Jukka-Pekka Saraste at the Chorégies d’ Orange, the title role Parsifal at the  Finnish National Opera Helsinki, concert performances of d'Alberts Tiefland at the  Budapest Festival and Teiresias in Henze's The Bassarides at the Salzburg Festival 2018,  directed by Krzystof Warlikowski and with the Vienna Philharmonic under the baton of  Kent Nagano. 

Nikolai Schukoff studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Parsifal, which he took over for  Placido Domingo at the Munich State Opera in 2007, brought the international  breakthrough. He sang this role at many important opera houses. Further highlights in  2013 were Siegmund / Walküre under the direction of Zubin Mehta in Valencia and  Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera New York. His signature roles include Erik / Fliegender  Holländer (Edinburgh Festival, Munich, Hamburg, Seattle, Madrid), Florestan / Fidelio (Lyon, Edinburgh, Prague Spring), Lohengrin (Amsterdam, Mannheim, Saint-Etienne),  Jim Mahoney / Mahagonny ( Toulouse, Santiago, Buenos Aires), Max (Geneva, Hamburg,  Paris), Oedipus Rex (Lisbon and Paris), Eléazar / La Juive (Lyon), Pedro / Tiefland  (Toulouse), Siegmund / Walküre (Leipzig Opera). 

Nikolai Schukoff’s concert repertoire includes a.o. Gurrelieder (Musikverein Wien / Zubin  Mehta, Enescu Festival, Canaria Festival), Symphony No. 8 (Paris / Christoph Eschenbach  and Daniele Gatti, Rome / Antonio Pappano, Valencia / Yaron Traub, Frankfurt / Paavo  Järvi, Hamburg, Copenhagen, Prague) or The Song of the Earth (Opéra de Paris,  Concertgebouw, Lucerne Festival, London, Bregenz Festival). 

2020/21