The ease with which tenor Sergei Semishkur sang the role of Énée is something not every great performer can achieve.
Nezavisimaya gazeta
Tenor Sergei Semishkur, too, was impressive as Vakula the smith. A stately and well-proportioned fellow, he also looked good and delighted us with his voice: beautiful, and filled with true emotion.
Kultura
Born in Baku. He graduated with distinction from the Choral School of the St Petersburg Academic Glinka Capella in 1998. Graduated with distinction from the conducting and choral faculty of the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire in 2003. Made his Mariinsky Theatre debut the same year as Count Almaviva in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia.
Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre includes:
Vladimir Igorevich (Prince Igor)
Lensky (Eugene Onegin)
Indian Merchant (Sadko)
Simpleton (Boris Godunov)
Ivan Lykov (The Tsar’s Bride)
Fisherman (Le Rossignol)
Berendey (The Snow Maiden)
Guidon (The Tale of Tsar Saltan)
Vaudémont (Iolanta)
Count Almaviva (Il barbiere di Siviglia)
Belfiore, Count Libenskof (Il viaggio a Reims)
Alfredo (La traviata)
Fenton (Falstaff)
Macduff (Macbeth)
Duke of Mantua (Rigoletto)
Riccardo (Un ballo in maschera)
Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly)
Beppe (I pagliacci)
Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni)
Ferrando (Così fan tutte)
Idomeneo (Idomeneo, rè di Creta)
Monostatos (Die Zauberflöte)
Domizio (Cimarosa’s Cleopatra)
Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore)
Lohengrin (Lohengrin)
Le docteur Faust (Faust)
Siegmund (Die Walküre)
Siegfried (Götterdämmerung)
Sailor (Tristan und Isolde)
Hylas (Les Troyens)
Nadir (Les Pêcheurs de perles in concert)
the First Jew (Salome)
Concert repertoire of the singer includes: Mozart’s Requiem, Mahler’s Lied von der Erde, Beethoven’s Christus am Ölberge and Ninth Symphony, Bach’s Coffee Cantata, Magnificat and Christmas Oratorio, Schubert’s Stabat Mater and Mass in G Minor, Händel’s Messiah, Liszt’s Faust Symphony and Stravinsky’s the Fable of the Fox, the Cock, the Tomcat and the Ram and Pulcinella.
He has performed at the Oper Graz (Austria), the Théâtre du Châtelet (Paris), the Opéra National (Bordeaux), Wigmore Hall (London) and the Concertgebouw (Bruges).
He has worked with such conductors as Valery Gergiev, Pierre Boulez, Eri Klas, Alexander Titov, Alexander Dmitriev and Gianandrea Noseda.
