Grigory Osipov

Biography

Born in Baku. In 1989, he graduated from the Saratov Sobinov Conservatoire (Professor A. Bystrov’s class).
In 1996, he did a special course in Vienna under Professor Ingeborg Wamser.
Since 1992, he has been a soloist with the Moscow State Philarmonia.

Repertoire

Germont (La Traviata)
Title role (Rakhmaninov’s Aleko)
Figaro (Il Barbiere di Siviglia)
Silvio (Pagliacci)
Valentin (Faust)
Title role (Eugene Onegin)
Robert, Ibn-Hakia (Iolanta)
Malatesta (Don Pasquale)
His Highness (Tchaikovsky’s The Slippers)
Almaviva (Les Nozze di Figaro)
Conte di Luna (Il Trovatore)
Alfio (Cavalleria Rusticana)
Morales, Escamillo (Carmen)
The Duke (Rakhmaninov’s The Miserly Knight)
President (Cui’s Feast in Time of Plague)
Sharpless (Madama Butterfly)
Yeletsky (The Queen of Spades)

He made his Bolshoi Theatre debut, in 2009, as Ibn-Hakia (Iolanta). In the same year, he sang Afron (The Golden Cockerel).

He has toured in Great Britain, Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Greece, Denmark, Slovakia, South Korea, China, and also to various Russian and Belorussian cities.
In 2010, he participated in I Korea Opera Festival in Seoul, performing the role of Georges Germont at the National Opera of Korea.

Discography

Tchaikovsky’s The Slippers – His Highness, conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Dynamic, 2001.

Awards

Prize-winner at the Athens International Choral and Lyric Soloists’ Festival, the International Mario del Monaco Competition (Marsala, Italy), the Verviers International Singing Competition (Belgium), the Bilbao International Singing Competition (Spain), the Hariclea Darclee National Voice Competition (Romania).