Boris Pinkhasovich

Boris Pinkhasovich studied conducting and singing in his hometown Saint-Petersburg. Upon graduating cum laude in 2011, he was immediately engaged as a soloist at the prestigious Mikhailovsky Theatre in Saint-Petersburg, where he sang numerous principal roles, such as Prince Yeletsky and Count Tomsky in The Queen of Spades, Giorgio Germont in La traviata, Robert in Iolanta, Belcore in L’elisir d’amore, Silvio and Tonio in Pagliacci, Lescaut in Manon Lescaut, Marcello in La bohème, Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro and Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia. Soon afterwards, his international career took off with engagements at the Bavarian State Opera in München as Onegin, Ford, Sharpless and in October 2021 as Kovalyov in the acclaimed production of Shostakovitch’s Nos, at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden (Shchelkalov and Marcello), at the Opéra de Paris, the Opéra in Monte-Carlo, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Salzburg Festival, the Easter Festival Baden-Baden and the Berlin Philharmonie. In April 2023 he made his acclaimed debut at Teatro alla Scala as Enrico in the new production of Lucia di Lammermoor under the baton of Riccardo Chailly. In the season 2023/2024 he returns to the ROH Covent Garden as Belcore, to the Bavarian State Opera as Sharpless, Yeletsky in a new production of Queen of Spades and Kovalyov in Shostakovitch’s Nos and to the Vienna State Opera as Onegin and Ford. His debut at the Vienna State Opera was in 2018 as Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia, followed by Eugen Onegin, Sharpless, Ford, Rodrigo, Yeletzki and Lescaut.