Dmitry Ivanchey

Dmitry Ivanchey (tenor) studied violin and voice at the Gnessin Academy and the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. From 2007 to 2011 he was engaged as a violinist in the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra. He began his professional career as an opera singer in 2008 as Mengone ("Lo Speziale" by Haydn) and in the following years sang, among others. Count Pierre Bezuchov ("War and Peace" by Prokofiev) at the Theatre Royal Glasgow and Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Count Almaviva ("Il Barbiere di Siviglia"), Chevalier de la Force ("Dialogues des Carmélites") and Lensky ("Eugene Onegin") at the Helikon Opera in Moscow, Bomelius ("The Tsar's Bride") at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow and again Almaviva alongside Karita Mattila at the Saaremaa Opera Festival in Estonia. He also appeared as the Italian Singer in Richard Strauss' "Capriccio" at the Opéra National de Lyon and as Belfiore ("Il viaggio a Reims") at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro. From the 2012.13 season, Dmitry Ivanchey was a member of the ensemble at Oper Zürich for four years, where he sang Almaviva ("Il barbiere di Siviglia"), Young Count ("Die Soldaten"), Steuermann ("Der fliegende Holländer"), Rode ("Drei Schwestern") and Pang ("Turandot"), among other roles. Guest appearances took him to the Brussels Opera (Italian singer in "Capriccio") and to the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse (Pedrillo in "Die Entführung aus dem Serail"). From the 2016.17 season he was a member of the ensemble at the Aalto-Theater Essen, where he sang, among other roles, Belmonte ("Die Entführung aus dem Serail"), Titus ("La clemenza di Tito"), Count Almaviva ("Il Barbiere di Siviglia"), Don Ottavio ("Don Giovanni"), Ferrando ("Così fan tutte") Tamino (“Die Zauberflöte"), Count Belfiore ("La finta giardiniera"), Duke of Urbino (“Eine Nacht in Venedig"), Nemorino ("L'elisir d'amore") and Adam ("Cain and Abel"). At the Philharmonie Essen, Dmitry Ivanchey took on the tenor parts in Bach's "Magnificat", Haydn's "The Creation", Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, Mozart's "Requiem" and “Große Messe in C-Moll". Dmitry Ivanchey has worked with conductors such as Nello Santi, Fabio Luisi, Alberto Zedda, François-Xavier Roth, Kirill Petrenko, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Daniel Oren, Marco Armiliato, Enrique Mazzola, Tomas Netopil, Christopher Moulds, Giacomo Sagripanti, Marc Albrecht, Alain Altinoglu, Michael Boder, Cornelius Meister, Teodor Kurentzis and Krzysztof Penderecki. He has also worked with directors such as Robert Wilson, Grischa Asagaroff, Calixto Bieito, Barrie Kosky, Mariame Clément, Tatjana Gürbaca, Andreas Homoki, Dietrich Hilsdorf, Dmitry Bertman, Roland Schwab and Stephen Lawless. In the 2021.22 season he appeared as Don Ottavio ("Don Giovanni") at Oper Graz and the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm, and sang in concerts with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in Berlin and at the Baden-Baden Festspielhaus. In recent years Dmitry Ivanchey has taken part in numerous renowned festivals, such as the Baden-Baden Easter Festival, the Festival Radio France Montpellier, the Klangvocal Dortmund, the Rossini Opera Festival and the Saaremaa Opera Festival in Estonia.

He has been a permanent ensemble member at Oper Köln since the beginning of the 2022.23 season. Here he can be heard as Iopas in "Les Troyens" as well as Belmonte in "Die Entführung aus dem Serail", Don Ramiro in "La Cenerentola", Steuermann in "Der fliegende Holländer" and Tamino in "Die Zauberflöte".