Eduard Tsanga

Biography

Eduard Tsanga was born in Syktyvkar (Republic of Komi) and graduated from the Nizhny Novgorod Glinka Conservatoire (class of Professor Sedov).
In 2000 he was invited to join the Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers, and since 2008 he has been a member of the Mariinsky Opera Company.

Repertoire

Prince Vladimir Galitsky (Prince Igor)
Ruslan (Ruslan and Lyudmila)
Prince Gremin (Eugene Onegin)
Kichiga (The Enchantress)
Panas (Christmas Eve)
Frost (The Snow Maiden)
Jester (The Tale of Tsar Saltan)
General Polkan (The Golden Cockerel)
an Englishman (The Gambler)
Leandro (Love for Three Oranges)
Newspaper Official (The Nose)
Creon (Oedipus Rex)
Raimondo (Lucia di Lammermoor)
Lord Sidney (Il viaggio a Reims)
Colline (La boheme)
Mandarin (Turandot)
Narbal (Les Troyens)
Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro)
Don Giovanni (Don Giovanni)
Papageno (Die Zauberfloete)
Donner, Fazolt (Das Rheingold)
Gunther (Goetterdaemmerung)
Second Knight of the Grail (Parsifal)
Orest (Elektra)
Escamillo (Carmen)
Abimelech (Samson et Dalila)

Eduard Tsanga has toured with the Mariinsky Opera Company to London and Paris and to cities throughout Finland, South Korea and Germany. He sang Leandro in a new production of Prokofiev's Love for Three Oranges at the Teatro Real (Madrid), as well as in Aix-en-Provence (France) and in Luxembourg.

Awards

Prize-winner at the International Elena Obraztsova Competition (2003; 2^nd prize)
Prize-winner at the International Pavel Lisitsian Competition (2003; 1st prize)
Special prize winner at the IV International Rimsky-Korsakov Young Opera Singers' Competition (St Petersburg, 2000) and at the International Boris Christoff Competition (Bulgaria, 2000)
Diploma-winner at the International Placido Domingo Operalia Competition (2003)