Medet Chotabayev

• Honored Worker of Kazakhstan
• Prize-winner of the IV Republican Competition of Young Singers of Kazakhstan (2^nd prize, 2003)
• Grand Prix of the Regional Competition dedicated to the 160^th anniversary of birth of the great poet Abai (Semey, 2005)
• Grand Prix of the IX International Festival of Creative Youth Shabyt (2006)
• Prize-winner of the Bibigul Tulegenova International Vocal Competition (1^st prize, 2007)
• Diploma recipient of the Beniamino Gigli International Singing Competition (Porto Recanati, Italy, 2008)
• First prize and the “Best Tenor” special prize of the XXIII Glinka International Vocal Competition (Moscow, 2009)
• Grand Prix of the Art of the 21^st Century International Competition (Finland, 2009)
• Prize-winner of the Best Voices of the Future International Competition (3^rd prize, Paris, 2010)
• Grand Prix of the Hariclea Darclée International Vocal Competition in Romania (2012)
• Winner of the X International Opera Singers Competition of the Fondazione Arena di Verona (Italy, 2013)
• Prize-winner of the Foundation of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan – Elbasy (2018)
• Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy (Cavaliere dell’Ordine della Stella d’Italia) (2018)

Graduated from the vocal department of the Tulebayev Music College (Semey, 2003) and the Kurmangazy Kazakh National Conservatory, where he studied solo singing under People’s Artist of Kazakhstan B. Zhylysbayev (2009). From 2006 to 2008, he studied at the Renata Tibaldi and Mario Del Monaco Academy (Pesaro, Italy).

He worked as a soloist with the Abai Kazakh State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre. Since 2013, he has been a leading soloist with the State Opera and Ballet Theatre Astana Opera.

Participant of the Operalia 2011. As a guest soloist, he performed the parts of Pollione in the premiere performance of Norma by Bellini at the Graz Opera (Austria), Lensky in Eugene Onegin by Tchaikovsky at the Slovak National Theatre (Bratislava) and the Teatro Municipal (São Paulo, Brazil), and Rodolfo in the opera La bohème by Puccini at the Grand Théâtre de Genève (Switzerland) and at the Teatro Carlo Felice (Genoa, Italy).

Repertoire:
Duke (Rigoletto by G. Verdi);
Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore by G. Donizetti);
Rodolfo (La bohème by G. Puccini);
Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly by G. Puccini);
Cavaradossi (Tosca by G. Puccini);
Lensky (Eugene Onegin by P. Tchaikovsky);
Alfredo (La traviata by G. Verdi);
Tulegen (Kyz Zhibek by E. Brusilovsky);
Don Carlo (Don Carlo by G. Verdi).