Nikolai Schukoff
Worldwide representation
The Austrian tenor Nikolai Schukoff opens the 2024/25 season as Don José in a new production of Carmen at the Volksoper Wien, directed by Lotte de Beer. The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino presents the tenor as Herod in a new production of Salome under the baton of Alexander Soddy. After triumphant successes as Jim Mahoney at the Aix-en-Provence Festival and at the Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam, this season he can be seen in this very role in the new production of Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny at the Deutsche Oper Berlin (Stefan Klingele / Benedikt von Peter). Concert engagements will take Nikolai Schukoff to New Year's concerts at the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon and to the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal with Mahler's Lied von der Erde.
Major engagements in recent seasons include a concert tour with Diana Damrau, Walter (Die Passagierin) at Teatro Real Madrid, 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, Florestan (Fidelio) at Teatro Sao Carlos Lisbon, 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,
2024/25
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