Edem Umerov

Baritone

Born in Samarkand. Graduated from the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire in 1991 (class of Professors Steblianko, Okhotnikov and Zastavny).
Lead soloist with the St Petersburg Chamber Opera Company from 1992.
With the Mariinsky Theatre since 1998.

Repertoire in the Mariinsky Theatre includes:
Boris Godunov (Boris Godunov),
Mazepa (Mazepa),
Prince Nikita Kurlyatev, Ivan Zhuran (The Enchantress),
Tomsky (The Queen of Spades),
Dolokhov, Denisov (War and Peace),
Macbeth (Macbeth),
Amonasro (Aida);
Telramund (Lohengrin),
Kurwenal (Tristan und Isolde),
Alberich (Das Rheingold, Siegfried),
Alberich, Gunther (Die Gotterdammerung),
Mandarin (Turandot);
the High Priest (Samson et Dalila);
Jokanaan (Salome).

Repertoire also includes:
Eugene Onegin (Eugene Onegin), Columbus (A. Smelkov?s Fifth Journey of Christopher Columbus), Geronimo (Il matrimonio segreto), Rigoletto (Rigoletto).

With the Mariinsky Theatre, he has toured to the UK (Covent Garden), Italy (La Scala, Ravenna Festival), Spain (the Teatro Real) and Germany (Baden-Baden).