Nikolai Schukoff
Worldwide representation
Austrian tenor Nikolai Schukoff opens the 2023/24 season as Jim Mahoney in Weill's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at the Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam. He is then engaged in Bergen for concert performances of Elektra conducted by Kirill Petrenko. Teatro Sao Carlos Lisbon presents the tenor as Florestan in performances of Beethoven's Fidelio at the Centro Cultural de Belem. At the Teatro Real he is expected in the role of Walter in Weinberg's Die Passagierin. Concerts take Nikolai Schukoff to Malmö for Mahler's Song of the Earth and to the Helsinki Phlharmonic Orchestra for Mahler's 8th Symphony.
Major engagements in recent seasons include his return to the Metropolitan Opera New York in Lady Macbeth of Mzensk, his role debut as Tristan (Tristan und Isolde) at the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, Bacchus (Ariadne auf Naxos) and Parsifal at the Liceu Barcelona, Tambourmajor (Wozzeck) in Toulouse, Siegmund (Walküre) at Opéra de Marseille, Herodes (Salome) at Finnish National Opera Helsinki and State Opera Berlin, Leoncavallo's Zaza (Milo Dufresne) and Der feurige Engel (Agrippa/Mephisto) at the Theater an der Wien, his scenic role debut as Otello at the Opéra de St. Etienne, Oedipus Rex in concert performances in Madrid, Beethoven's Symphony no. 9 with Simone Young conducting in Tokyo, Parsifal in a new production of the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, Boris in Katia Kabanova at Teatro del Liceu Barcelona, the tenor lead in the world premiere of Glanert's Oceane at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Jim Mahoney in Weill's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny in Aix-en-Provence, Mahler's Symphony No.8 under Dmitri Kitajenko in Zagreb as well as under Jukka-Pekka Saraste at the Chorégies d' Orange, the title role in Parsifal at the Finnish National Opera Helsinki, concert performances of d'Albert's Tiefland at the Budapest Festival, and Teiresias in Henze's The Bassarides at the 2018 Salzburg Festival directed by Krzystof Warlikowski and with the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Kent Nagano.
Nikolai Schukoff studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. The Parsifal, which he took over for Placido Domingo at the Munich State Opera in 2007, brought his international breakthrough. He subsequently sang this role at many important opera houses. Other milestones included Siegmund/Walküre under the baton of Zubin Mehta in Valencia in 2013 and Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera New York. Further important roles include Erik/Flying Dutchman (Edinburgh Festival, Munich, Hamburg, Seattle, Madrid), Florestan/Fidelio (Lyon, Edinburgh, Prague Spring), Lohengrin (Amsterdam, Mannheim, Saint-Etienne), Jim Mahoney/Mahagonny (Toulouse, Santiago, Buenos Aires), Max (Geneva, Hamburg, Paris), Oedipus Rex (Lisbon and Paris), Eléazar/La Juive (Lyon), Pedro/Tiefland (Toulouse), Siegmund/Walküre (Leipzig Opera).
In concert Nikolai Schukoff sings among others Gurrelieder (Musikverein Vienna/Zubin Mehta, Enescu Festival, Canaria Festival), Symphony No.8 (Paris/Christoph Eschenbach and Daniele Gatti, Rome/Antonio Pappano, Valencia/Yaron Traub, Frankfurt/Paavo Järvi, Hamburg, Copenhagen, Prague) or Das Lied von der Erde (Opéra de Paris, Concertgebouw, Lucerne Festival, London, Bregenz Festival).
2023/24
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