(c) Nikolai Schukoff
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
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