Vladislav Sulimsky was born in Molodechno, Belarus. He studied at the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory. Soloist with the Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers in 2000–2004. Mariinsky Theatre soloist since 2004. Since October 2004, he has trained under Professor R. Metre in Milan. He has taken part in master classes given by Elena Obraztsova, Dmitry Hvorostovsky, Vladimir Atlantov, Dennis O’Neal and Renata Scotto.
Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre:
Shaklovity, Pastor (Khovanshchina)
Onegin (Eugene Onegin)
Dunois (The Maid of Orleans in concert)
Prince Kurlyatev (The Enchantress)
Count Tomsky, Prince Yeletsky (The Queen of Spades)
the Duke (The Miserly Knight)
Ebn-Hakia (Iolanta)
Gryaznoy (Tsar’s Bride)
Head (Christmas Eve)
Mazepa (Mazepa)
Pantalone (The Love for Three Oranges)
Don Ferdinand, Father Chartreuse, Pedro, Second Masker (Betrothal in a Monastery)
Kovalev (The Nose)
Alyosha (The Brothers Karamazov)
Tonio, Silvio (I pagliacci)
Baron Scarpia (Tosca)
Prince Afron (The Golden Cockerel)
Belcore (L'elisir d'amore)
Enrico Ashton (Lucia di Lammermoor)
Macbeth (Macbeth)
Amonasro (Aida)
Giogio Germont (La traviata)
Don Carlo (La forza del destino)
Valentin (Faust)
Renato (Un ballo in maschera)
Rodrigo di Posa (Don Carlo)
Count Di Luna (Il trovatore)
Ezio (Attila)
Monforte (I vespri siciliani)
Simon Boccanegra (Simon Boccanegra)
Rigoletto (Rigoletto)
Iago (Otello)
Yamadori, Sharpless (Madama Butterfly)
Gianni Schicchi (Gianni Schicchi)
Chorèbe (Les Troyens)
Aeneas (Dido and Aeneas)
Alberich (Das Rheingold)
The singer’s repertoire also includes roles of Andrei Bolkonsky (War and Peace), Ford (Falstaff) and the baritone parts in Orff’s cantata Carmina Burana, Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem and Mahler’s Eighth Symphony.
He has toured with the Mariinsky Opera Company to the USA, Japan, the UK, Finland and France.