Dmitry Ivanchey

The lyric tenor Dmitry Ivanchey comes from a fifth-generation family of musicians and combines a distinctive violin technique with vocal stylistic confidence; his core repertoire consists of Mozart and bel canto, supplemented by a range from Rossini to Manoury. 

He studied violin at the Gnessin Academy and singing at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory; at the same time, he was a violinist in the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra for four years, which had a lasting influence on the precision, phrasing, and intonation of his singing. 

A key stage in his career was the Zurich Opera House (Ensemble), where he sang roles such as Almaviva, Steuermann, Pang, and Junger Graf; where he sang a lot of contemporary repertoire (Zimmermann, Eötvös, Lange) – a domain in which his violin training audibly benefits him. 

At the Aalto Theater Essen, he honed his Mozart/bel canto profile with Belmonte, Tito, Don Ottavio, Ferrando, Tamino, Nemorino, Almaviva, Adam, and Belfiore. 

Since 2022.23, he has been a permanent member of the ensemble at the Cologne Opera, performing the title role in “Idomeneo,” Belmonte, Tamino, Don Ramiro, Ferrando, Nemorino, Iopas, Camille de Rosillon, and Don Ottavio, among others. He also participated in the world premiere of Philippe Manoury's Thinkspiel “Die letzten Tage der Menschheit” (2025).

Guest performances have taken him to the Royal Swedish Opera (Stockholm) and Graz Opera as Don Ottavio, to the Théâtre de la Monnaie (Brussels) and Opéra de Lyon as the Italian Singer (“Capriccio”), to Toulouse as Pedrillo, to the Bolshoi Theater as Bomelius, and to the Théâtre des Champs Élysées, the Festival de Pâques (Aix en Provence), the Zurich Opera House, and the Auditorio Nacional de Música (Madrid) as the Helmsman, among others.

His repertoire also includes Prokofiev's Pierre Besukhov (“War and Peace” — at the Theatre Royal Glasgow and the Edinburgh Festival Theatre, among others) and Shostakovich's “The Nose” (title role at the Teatro Real Madrid) as striking cornerstones of the 20th-century repertoire. 

Festival appearances include the Easter Festival in Baden Baden, the Radio France Montpellier Festival, the Klangvokal Music Festival in Dortmund, the Rossini Opera Festival (Pesaro), the Prague Spring, and the Saaremaa Opera Festival (Estonia). 

He has worked with conductors such as Fabio Luisi, Nello Santi, Marco Armiliato, Alain Altinoglu, Marc Albrecht, François Xavier Roth, Enrique Mazzola, Teodor Currentzis, and Kirill Petrenko, as well as with directing teams led by Robert Wilson, Barrie Kosky, Andreas Homoki, Calixto Bieito, Tatjana Gürbaca, Stephen Lawless, Dietrich Hilsdorf, and Grischa Asagaroff. 

Awards: 1st prize at the Moscow Competition for Lyric Tenors; 2nd prize at the Minsk International Christmas Singing Competition; Città di Pesaro International Competition: 2nd prize (violin) and 3rd prize (singing). 

Current 2025.26: “Idomeneo” (title role) at the Graz Opera and the Tyrolean State Theater in Innsbruck, Haydn's “The Creation” (tenor) at the Prague Spring Festival, and in Cologne Don Ramiro (“La Cenerentola”), Tamino (“Die Zauberflöte”) and Argirio (“Tancredi”).