Boris Statsenko
Baritone
Born in in the town of Korkino, Chelyabinsk province, in the Urals. He studied at Chelyabinsk Music School (G. Gavrilov’s class), and the Moscow Conservatoire (Professor Hugo Tits’s class) where he was also a postgraduate (Professor Pyotr Skusnichenko’s class). Future engagements include Wolfram/2 Act of Tannnhäuser at the 100 Anniversary Jury Ljubimov Gala Concert at Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, Amonastro/Aida, Scarpia/Tosca and Nabucco at Arena di Verona, Rachmaninov's Bells with Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk Orchestra, Scarpia/Tosca at Prague National Opera, Iago/Otello, Amonastro/Aida, Scarpia/Tosca, Le coq d’or/König Dodon at Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf, Gianni Schicchi in Taiwan and Frà Melitone/La forza del Destino at Opera Tel Aviv. He was a prizewinner at the Maria Callas Competition (Greece, 1989), and the Tchaikovsky Competition (Moscow, 1990). In 1987, he joined Boris Pokrovsky’s Moscow Chamber Music Theatre. From 1990-1995, he was soloist with the Bolshoi Theatre, where he sung upwards of ten roles including such as Silvio (Pagliacci), Yeletsky (The Queen of Spades), Georges Germont (La Traviata), Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Valentin (Faust), Robert (Iolanta). As Bolshoi Theatre guest soloist he performed Don Carlo (La Forza del Destino), Napoleon (Prokofiev’s War and Peace), Ruprecht (The Fiery Angel), Tomsky (The Queen of Spades), the title role (Nabucco), the title role (Macbeth).
His international engagements include appearances in Hamburg, Dresden, Berlin, Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Essen, Cologne, Helsinki, Oslo, Amsterdam, Brussels, Liege, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Strasbourg, Marseilles, Paris, Turin, Montpellier, Toulon, Copenhagen, Palermo, Treiste, Tokyo and others.
From 1993-1999, he appeared as guest artist with the Kemnits Opera Company. Since 1999 he has been a soloist with Dusseldorf Opera, where he sang: Rigoletto, Scarpia (Tosca), Chorebe(Berlioz’s La prise de Troie), Lindorf, Coppelius, Miracle, Dapertutto (Les contes d’Hoffmann), Macbeth, Escamillo (Carmen), Amonasro (Aida), Tonio (I Pagliacci), Amfortas (Parsifal), Gellner (La Wally), Iago(Otello), Renato (Un Ballo in Maschera), Georges Germont (La Traviata), Michele (Il Tabarro), Nabucco,Carlo Gerard (Andrea Chenier).
He participated in the Ludwigsburg Festival pro¬ductions under the direction of Wolfgang Gennenwein, where he has sung the lead baritone roles in Stiffelio, II trovatore, Nabucco, Ernani and Un ballo in maschera. He has given concert appearances (over 100) in Japan. He makes regular concert appearances at Lucca Festival and has sung in La Traviata, La forza del destino, Tosca, Rigoletto, La Boheme, Tannhauser, lolanta and The Queen of Spades in Venice, Turin, Padua, Lucca and Rimini. Together with La Scala soloists, Anna-Caterina Antonacci, Luigi Roni, Claudio Dezderi and Alberto Rinaldi, he appeared in Il barbiere di Siviglia in Germany, France, Italy Belgium and Holland.
In 2003, he sang Nabucco in Athens, Iago in Graz, Count di Luna in Copenhagen, Georges Germont in Oslo, Scarpia and Figaro in Trieste. In 2004-06, — Scarpia in Bordeaux, Germont in Oslo and Marcello (La Boheme) in Luxembourg and Tel-Aviv, Rigoletto and Carlo Gerard in Graz.
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LEONARDO LOPEZ LINARES
Baritone
Born in Buenos Aires, soprano Iris Canepa and baritone Pedro Linares' son, Leonardo made his debut at fourteen at the Municipal Theatre of Vina del Mar in Chile and then joined the chorus of the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires. He deserved special mentions at the «Traviata 2000 Competition» with Lorin Maazel, President of the jury, and at the «Belvedere Competition» in Vienna. In 1995 he won the fifth Contest «Luciano Pavarotti»; in Philadelphia, next to the famous tenor, in the Opera Extravaganza show, he performed Marcello in La Bohème, Marco Armiliato conductor. He was a finalist in other competitions: «Operalia» in Tokyo, «Francisco Viñas» in Barcelona and «Neue Stimmen» in Gotersloth. On the occasion of the reopening of the Teatro Avenida in Buenos Aires, he participated in La Verbena de la Paloma by Tomas Breton, later resumed at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, and at the production of Luisa Fernanda by Moreno Torroba. He made his debut in the role of Scarpia (Tosca) at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, sang La Bohéme in Chile, Don Carlo, Aida and Nabucco by Verdi and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci at the Teatro Argentino de la Plata; Rigoletto in Buenos Aires and Bogota; Medea in Buenos Aires; Carmen in Bogota; Il Trovatore in Montevideo; Fidelio, Tosca, Nabucco, La Forza del Destino and I Masnadieri in Argentina. He sang two concerts at the Carnegie Hall in New York accompanied by the "New England Symphony Orchestra". In Italy he sang La Bohème, Il Corsaro and Alzira in Rome, Luisa Miller and La Bohème at the Teatro Regio di Parma; Nabucco, La Traviata and Carmen at the Politeama in Lecce and even Nabucco at Teatro Cilea di Reggio Calabria, La Traviata at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo and La Battaglia di Legnano in Trieste.
At the Arena di Verona he debuted in 2010 as Ping in Turandot and Sharpless in Madama Butterfly; in 2011 he made his debut at the Teatro Filarmonico in Falstaff and at the Arena he performed the roles of Amonasro in Aida and Nabucco.
In 2012 he was again Amonasro at the Arena di Verona and performed Scarpia in Tosca at Torre del Lago Puccini. In 2013 he was Renato in Un Ballo in Maschera in Las Palmas and took part in Il Trovatore on tour in South America. He sang again Nabucco at the Arena, Falstaff in Gozo and Amonasro in Montevideo. In 2014 he was Marcello in La Bohème in Montevideo.
He received the award for best singer by the music critics of Argentina and the title of Honorary Guest from the government of the province of Santa Fè.
He sang Tosca and Nabucco at the Teatro Argentino de La Plata and a Zarzuela Gala with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Montevideo, directed by Manuel Coves.
During the summer season 2015 of the Arena di Verona he sang in the Aida, then during a production of Falstaff in Sao Paolo in Brasil and in November he’s Iago (Otello) at the Sodre of Montevideo and at Teatro del Circulo de Rosario of Santa Fe.
In 2017 he debuted the role of Baldassare in L’Arlesiana at Teatro Roma of Avallaneda.
Future commitments: Nabucco at the Arena di Verona and will be Giorgio Germont in Traviata at Teatro Colon of Buenos Aires.
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