Andrei Zorin

Andrei Zorin was born in Komsomolsk on Amur (Khabarovsk Krai). In 2002 he graduated from the Vladivostok Academy of Arts. Soloist with the Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers from 2002. Joined the Mariinsky Opera Company in 2007.

Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre:
Herod (Salome)
Mime (Das Rheingold)
Grisha Kuterma (The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia)
The Simpleton (Boris Godunov)
Ovlur, Yeroshka (Prince Igor)
Kochkarev (The Marriage)
Afanasy Ivanovich (Sorochintsy Fair)
Khrushchev the Boyar, Jesuit, Misail (Boris Godunov)
Minion, Scrivener (Khovanshchina)
Triquet (Eugene Onegin)
Chaplitsky, Master of Ceremonies (The Queen of Spades)
Drunken Cossack (Mazepa)
Balakin (The Enchantress)
Alméric (Iolanta)
Sopel (Sadko)
1^st Herald, Bakula (The Snow Maiden)
Elisey Bomely (The Tsar’s Bride)
The Devil (Christmas Eve)
Kashchei (Kashchei the Immortal)
Distiller (May night)
Japanese Ambassador (Le Rossignol)
Méphistophélès (The Fiery Angel)
Hunch-Backed Gambler (The Gambler)
German Interpreter (Semyon Kotko)
Abbot, Monsieur de Beausset, Lieutenant Bonnet, First Staff Officer, Kanovnitsyn, Platon Karatayev (War and Peace)
Eunuch, Ten Policemen, Seven Gentlemen (The Nose)
Selifan (Dead Souls)
Vyrin as an old man (The Station Master)
Smerdyakov, the Devil (The Brothers Karamazov)
Notary (Don Pasquale, concert performance)
Uldino (Attila)
Captain of the Crossbowmen (Simon Boccanegra)
Amelia’s Servant (Un ballo in maschera)
Trabuco (La forza del destino)
Conte di Lerma, Royal Herald (Don Carlo)
Messenger (Aida)
Andrès, Cochenille, Frantz, Pitichinaccio (Les Contes d’Hoffmann)
Doctor Caius (Falstaff)
Beppe (I pagliacci)
Parpignol (La bohème)
Spoletta (Tosca)
Official, Goro (Madama Butterfly)
Harry (La fanciulla del West)
Pong (Turandot)
The Innkeeper (Benvenuto Cellini)
Torquemada (L’Heure espagnole, concert performance)
Two Lovers (Il tabarro)
High Priest of Neptune (Idomeneo, rè di Creta)
Don Basilio (Le nozze di Figaro)
Monostatos (Die Zauberflöte)
Knight of Brabant (Lohengrin)
Cossé (Les Huguenots)
Hadji (Lakmé)
Shepherd (Tristan und Isolde)
David (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg)
Officer (Ariadne auf Naxos)
Aegisth, Young Servant (Elektra)
The Hunchback (Die Frau ohne Schatten)
Count Hauk-Šendorf (Věc Makropulos, concert performance).

Has toured with the Mariinsky Opera Company to the UK, Germany, Sweden, Finland and Spain. He has given solo recitals in China and Japan. In 2003 he took part in the Mikkeli International Festival, where he performed as Kochkarev in The Marriage and as Vyrin (Alexander Smelkov’s The Station Guard).
At the VIII Moscow Easter Festival he performed the role of Don Bartolo (Le nozze di Figaro).