Roman Shirokikh

Mariinsky Theatre Guest Soloist

• Prize-winner at the 15^th Elena Obraztsova International Competition of Young Opera Singers (St Petersburg, 2024; special prize “For the best performance of a work by Mikhail Glinka” and special prize from the Legislative Assembly of St Petersburg)
• Diploma recipient at the XVII International Tchaikovsky Competition (Moscow – St Petersburg, 2023)
• Prize-winner at the 1^st Nikolai Okhotnikov International Competition of Opera Singers (St Petersburg, 2019; 1^st prize)

Roman Shirokikh was born in Naberezhnye Chelny in 1994. In 2021 he graduated from the Rimsky-Korsakov St Petersburg State Conservatory (class of Yury Marusin).

While a student at the conservatory, Roman portrayed Count Vaudémont (Iolanta), Lensky (Eugene Onegin), Rudolf (La bohème) and Chekalinsky (The Queen of Spades) at the St Petersburg Music Hall Theatre. In 2016 the singer took part in the St Petersburg premiere of Sergei Slonimsky’s opera King Lear at the Hermitage Theatre, performing the role of Gloucester’s Servant. During 2020–2021 Roman was a soloist with St Petersburg’s Zazerkalye theatre.
Has taken part in a programme of the international creative project Baltic Sea Music Academy and has toured to Baltic cities.

In 2021 the singer became a fellow of the Atkins Young Artists Program at the Mariinsky Theatre. In 2022 he made his debut at the theatre, performing the part of Count Vaudémont in Iolanta.

Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre:
Prince Sinodal (The Demon)
Lensky (Eugene Onegin)
Vladimir Igorevich (Prince Igor)
Count Vaudémont (Iolanta)
Prince (The Love for Three Oranges)
Don Antonio (Betrothal in a Monastery)
Idamante (Idomeneo, re di Creta)
Tamino (Die Zauberflöte)
Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore)
Ernesto (Don Pasquale)
Ismaele (Nabucco)
Cassio (Verdi’s Otello)
Rodolfo (La bohème)
Tenor part in Mozart’s Requiem

Has sung in premieres of the Mariinsky Theatre’s productions of Idomeneo, re di Creta and Die Zauberflöte (2022), Don Pasquale (2022, revival of the 1980 production), The Love for Three Oranges (2022, revival of the 1991 production), Otello (2022, revision of the 1996 production), Nabucco, Iolanta and The Demon (2023).

His repertoire also includes the Young Gypsy (Aleko), Andrei (Mazepa) and the Duke of Mantua (Rigoletto).

He performed at the Moscow Easter Festival, the Tchaikovsky International Festival of Arts, the festivals Stars of the White Nights, Genius of Place, To See the Music, Culture Is Nearby and The World of Classical Romance among others.
Information for November 2024