Dmitry Golovnin (Tenor)
Dmitry Golovnin graduated from the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov
Conservatoire in 1997 as a trumpet-player. After graduation, he was a soloist of
the trumpet group of the St Petersburg Capella Symphonic Orchestra and a member
of the Neva Brass Band. At the age of 27, he took his first singing classes. In
2001–2004, he was a student of the Music and Theatre High School in Hamburg. In
2001, he performed his first role — Boni in Kalman’s Silva. He was a trainee of
Virgilijus Noreika, Elena Obraztsova, and other renowned vocalists. In the
season 2003/2004, he performed parts of Don José in Bizet’s Carmen (Seville tour
of the Lübben Theatre) and Lyonel in Martha, oder Der Markt zu Richmond by
Friedrich von Flotow (production of the Solingen Theatre).
In 2007, he joined the Mikhailovsky Opera. He performed Lensky in
Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, Vladimir in Borodin’s Prince Igor, Lykov in
Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride, and Don José in Carmen (productions by
Stanislav Gaudasinsky). Nowadays, at the Theatre he performs leading tenor parts
in the operas by Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Richard Wagner, Antonín
Dvořák, Pietro Mascagni, and Pyotr Tchaikovsky.
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