YOMIURI NIPPON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Beethoven – Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 (“Chorale”)
Dec 17 (Osaka)/ 20 (Tokyo)/ 21 (Tokyo)/ 22 (Tokyo)/ 25 (Tokyo)/ 26 (Tokyo)/ 27 (Yokohama)

TEATR WIELKI W ŁODZI
Johann Strauss Gala
Jan 23
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CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Weinberg – Die Passagierin – Walter
Apr 2 (Birmingham)/ 6 (Vienna)/ 8 (Dortmund)/ 10 (Hamburg)
MAGGIO MUSICALE FIORENTINO
Wagner – Tristan and Isolde – Melot
May 20/23/26/29
Strauss – Elektra – Aegisthus
June 17/20/23/29

Biography

Nikolai Schukoff impresses with his charismatic stage presence, vocal intensity and a wide stylistic range – especially in the German, French and Slavic repertoire.

In the 2026/27 season, Nikolai Schukoff will sing the title role in Samson et Dalia under Thomas Guggeis at the Wratislavia Cantans Festival in Wrocław, a role he previously made his debut in at the Ljubljana Festival under Charles Dutoit. The Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse will welcome the artist for his role debut as Peter Grimes in a new production of Britten's opera. Further engagements will take him to Tokyo and Yokohama for Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, as well as to Łódź for a Johann Strauss gala. With the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, he will appear as Walter in concert performances of Weinberg's Die Passagierin in Vienna, Dortmund, and Hamburg. At the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, he will also sing Melot in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde under Alexander Soddy and Aegisthus in Strauss's Elektra .

Highlights of past seasons include Walter in Tobias Kratzer's new production of Die Passagierin at the Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam , Herod in Emma Dante's new production of Strauss's Salome at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino as well as at the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Finnish National Opera Helsinki, Pollione in a semi-concert production of Norma at the Opéra de Metz, Jim Mahoney in a new production of Rise and Fall of the City of Magahonny at the Deutsche Oper Berlin – following celebrated successes in the same role at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence and at the Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam -, his return to the Metropolitan Opera New York in Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk , Walter ( Die Passagierin ) at Teatro Real Madrid , Tristan at the Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse, Bacchus ( Ariadne auf Naxos ) and Parsifal at the Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, Drum Major ( Wozzeck ) in Toulouse, Siegmund ( Die Walküre ) at the Opéra de Marseille, Herod in Berlin and Helsinki, Florestan ( Fidelio ) at the Teatro São Carlos Lisbon, Agrippa/Mephisto ( Der feurige Engel ) and Milo Dufresne ( Zaza ) at the Theater an der Wien , Otello (scenic role debut) in St. Étienne and Oedipus Rex concert version in Madrid.
Furthermore, concert engagements took him to, among other places, the Palace of Arts – Müpa Budapest, the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal and the Gulbenkian Foundation's New Year's concerts in Lisbon.
The Austrian tenor celebrated his international breakthrough in 2007, when he sang Parsifal at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, stepping in at short notice for Plácido Domingo – a role that subsequently took him to major opera houses such as Toulouse, Helsinki, Barcelona, and Amsterdam in the following years. Further milestones included Siegmund ( Die Walküre ) under Zubin Mehta in Valencia, Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and roles such as Erik ( Der fliegende Holländer ), Florestan ( Fidelio ), Lohengrin, Max ( Der Freischütz ), Pedro ( Tiefland ), Eléazar ( La Juive ), and Jim Mahoney in productions throughout Europe and South America.
As a concert singer, Nikolai Schukoff is internationally sought after for works such as Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde and Symphony No. 8 , Schoenberg's Gurrelieder , and Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. Engagements have taken him to Paris, London, Rome, Frankfurt, Vienna, Tokyo, Zagreb, Prague, Copenhagen, Lucerne, the George Enescu Festival in Bucharest, and the Bregenz Festival, among others.
2026/27
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