Pavel Kolgatin

Pavel Kolgatin ( Russian Павел Колгатин , Pawel Kolgatin ; born 1987 in Balaschow , Russia) is a Russian opera singer with a tenor voice . Since 2012 he has been a member of the ensemble of the Vienna State Opera .

Life

After studying singing in Moscow , Kolgatin won several singing competitions. He quickly received engagements with well-known conductors such as Louis Langrée , Wladimir Teodorowitsch Spiwakow , Viktor Sergejewitsch Popow and Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Nekrasow and worked as a soloist of the Academy of Choral Art in performances in Russia, Switzerland, Holland, Japan, Germany and France. He has performed at festivals such as the Moscow December Nights , the Festival de Colmar in France, the Rheingau Music Festival and the Oldenburg Promenade . In 2009 he became a member of the Young Ensemble at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. The singer subsequently appeared as Nemorino in L'elisir d'amore at the Salzburg State Theater , as Ferrando in Così fan tutte at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, and as Tamino in the Magic Flute at the Opera di Roma and at the Moscow Bolshoi Theater.

Kolgatin has been a member of the Vienna State Opera ensemble since November 2012 . Here he made his debut as Balthasar Zorn in Wagner's Meistersingern von Nürnberg and also sang Brighella (in Ariadne auf Naxos ), Don Basilio (in Le nozze di Figaro ), Count Almaviva (in Barbiere di Siviglia ) and God's jester (in Boris Godunow ). In October 2014 he was part of the premiere cast of Mozart's Idomeneo - as Arbace - and in June 2015 he took on Ferdinand in the state opera premiere of Thomas Adès ' The Tempest .

personal data
SURNAME	Kolgatin, Pavel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kolgatin, Pawel; Колгатин, Павел (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian opera singer with a tenor voice
DATE OF BIRTH	1987
PLACE OF BIRTH	Balashov , Russia