Nikolai Schukoff
connessiallopera.it (18.04.2025)Season 25/26 and Highlights
Wratislava Cantans
Wagner - Parsifal - Parsifal
NFM Wrocław Philharmonic - concert version - 3rd act
Sep 14
PALACE OF ARTS BUDAPEST
Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra
Liszt - Faust Symphony - Tenor
Oct 3
JERUSALEM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Mahler - The Song of the Earth - Tenor
Jan 14/15
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ORQUESTA FILARMONIQA DE JALISKO
Strauss - Salome - Herod
Feb
OPERA DE METZ
Bellini - Norma - Pollione
March 6/8
Dutch Opera Amsterdam
Weinberg - Die Passagierin - Walter
PREMIERE Apr 17
Apr 20/23/26/29, Mia 2
THEATER DU CAPITOLE DE TOULOUSE
Strauss - Salome - Herod
PREMIERE May 22
May 24/26/29/31
Biography
Nikolai Schukoff impresses with charismatic stage presence, vocal intensity and a wide stylistic range – especially in the German, French and Slavic repertoire.
In the 2025/26 season, he will be heard as Walter in Die Passagierin at the Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam – in a new production by Tobias Kratzer. He will also perform one of his signature roles, Herod in Strauss's Salome , at the San Francisco Opera and with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Jalisco in South America. He will appear as Pollione in a semi-concert production of Norma at the Opéra de Metz. Concert engagements include the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and the Palace of Arts – Müpa in Budapest.
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The Austrian celebrated his international breakthrough Tenor In 2007, he sang Parsifal at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, taking over at short notice from Plácido Domingo—a role that subsequently took him to major opera houses such as Toulouse, Helsinki, Barcelona, and Amsterdam. Further milestones included Siegmund ( Walküre ) under Zubin Mehta in Valencia, Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and roles such as Erik ( The Flying Dutchman ), Florestan ( Fidelio ), Lohengrin, Max ( Der Freischütz ), Pedro ( Tiefland ), Eléazar ( La Juive ), and Jim Mahoney in productions throughout Europe and South America.
In the 2024/25 season, he appeared as Herod in a new production of Strauss's Salome at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, under the musical direction of Alexander Soddy. At the Deutsche Oper Berlin, he reprised the role of Jim Mahoney in Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, directed by Benedikt von Peter and under the musical direction of Stefan Klingele, following acclaimed successes in this role at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence and at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam. Concert engagements led him to the New Year's concerts of the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon and with Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde to the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal.
Among the most important stations of the past seasons are 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 Liceu Barcelona, Drum Major ( Wozzeck ) in Toulouse, Siegmund ( Walküre ) at the Opéra de Marseille, Herod in Berlin and Helsinki, Florestan ( Fidelio ) at the Teatro São Carlos Lisbon, Agrippa/Mephisto ( The Fiery Angel ) and Milo Dufresne ( Zazà ) at the Theater an der Wien, Otello (scenic role debut) in St. Étienne as well as Oedipus Rex concert version in Madrid.
In the concert realm, he is internationally sought after for works such as Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde and Symphony No. 8, Schönberg's Gurre-Lieder, and Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Engagements have taken him to Paris, London, Rome, Frankfurt, Vienna, Tokyo, Zagreb, Prague, Copenhagen, Lucerne, the Enescu Festival Bucharest, and the Bregenz Festival. 2025/26
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