Tenor
World
Vasyl Solodkyy has established himself in recent years as one of the top talents on the European opera scene and reached the final of the ‘BBC Cardiff Singer of the world’ International Competition in 2023.
Born in Ternopil in Ukraine, he began studying piano at the age of seven. He moved to Italy in 2007 and continued his musical studies at the Istituto Musicale Lettimi in Rimini, before turning to singing, since 2017 under the guidance of soprano Valeria Esposito. In 2018, he was admitted to the Accademia Verdiana of the Teatro Regio in Parma.
The most important productions in which he has taken part include Musorgsky’s Boris Godunov with M° Riccardo Chailly for the season 2022-2023 opening of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Uriel in Händel’s The creation conducted by M° Fabio Luisi for the opening night of the 47° Festival della Valle d’Itria in Martina Franca, Arianna a Nasso (version with Italian libretto of Richard Strauss’ masterpiece) again at Festival della Valle d’Itria under the baton of M° Luisi in 2020, Marin Faliero with M° Riccardo Frizza in Bergamo for Festival Donizetti 2020, Der fliegende Holländer in 2018 for the season opening of Teatro Petruzzelli di Bari under the baton of M° Giampaolo Bisanti, I due Foscari at Teatro Regio di Parma within Festival Verdi 2019 conducted by M° Paolo Arrivabeni.
Amonr the leading roles already debuted, Alfredo Germont in La traviata at Immling Festival in Halfing, Tom Rakewell in Igor Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress at Staatstheater Mainz, Verdi’s Messa da Requiem at Opera Narodowa in Warsaw, Fenton in Falstaff in Busseto for the Festival Verdi 2023, Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore, Ferrando in Così fan tutte.
LATEST PERFORMANCES: Verdi’s Messa da Requiem in Kaiserslautern; Beethoven’s IX Symphony in Warsaw; Otello at New Israeli Opera Tel Aviv; Nabucco (Ismaele) at Cologne Opera; Idomeneo (title role) at Staatstheather Mainz; Edgar (title role) at Festival Puccini in Torre del Lago; I masnadieri (concert version) in Mannheim; Boito’s Nerone at Teatro Lirico in Cagliari; La rondine in Pisa and in Jesi; Falstaff at Festival Verdi; Verdi’s Messa da Requiem at Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome.
FORTHCOMING PROJECTS: Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari; Manon Lescaut at Immling Festival and in Cologne; Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District at Teatro alla Scala in Milan, season opening with M° Riccardo Chailly; Nabucco at Opera Carlo Felice in Genoa.
