Pavel Stasenko

Baritone

• Prize-winner at the XX International Music Competition Pietro Argento (Gioia del Colle, Italy, 2017; 2^nd prize)
• Prize-winner at the 4^th Pavel Lisitsian International Vocal Competition (Vladikavkaz, 2016; 4^th prize)
• Prize-winner at the Maxim Mikhailov International Competition of Vocal Chamber Music Performers (Kaluga, 2014; 2^nd prize)

Pavel Stasenko was born in Omsk. Completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at St Petersburg’s Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia (class of Edem Umerov).

Soloist with the Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers since 2012. He made his Mariinsky Theatre debut in 2014, first appearing in a concert where Musorgsky’s vocal cycles were performed, and then portraying the Officer with a Dog in Il barbiere di Siviglia.

Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre:
A Gentleman and a Janitor (The Nose)
A Man in Armour (Die Zauberflöte)
Fiorello, Officer with a Dog, and Officer (Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia)
A Flemish Deputy (Don Carlo)
De Retz and Night Watchman (Les Huguenots)
A Sailor (Lakmé)

In concert performances:
Medium-sized Cossack (Quiet Flows the Don)
Colonel Ferrari and James (Spadavecchia’s The Gadfly)
An Officer (Klinichev’s Bela)
A Slave (Massenet’s Cléopâtre)

Also appears in children’s productions at the Mariinsky Theatre, such as The Little Prince, Snow White, Town Musicians of Bremen, Murych the Cat, The Giant, The Adventures of Kintaro, An Opera About Porridge, a Cat and Milk and The Boy Giant.

He has taken part in premieres of the Mariinsky Theatre’s productions of Il barbiere di Siviglia (2014), The Boy Giant (2016), Die Zauberflöte (2022) and Les Huguenots (2024).