Evgeny Stavinsky

Biography

Evgeny Stavinsky was born in Dubna, Moscow region, in a family of musicians. In 2003, he completed his university-level studies as singer and choir conductor at the Academy of Choral Art. He spent from 2004 to 2005 in Florence, Italy, to study at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino where he performed the title part in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, as well as the parts of Lord Sidney and Basilio in Rossini’s Il Viaggio a Reims and Il Barbiere di Siviglia as well as the Superintendent Budd in Britten’s Albert Herring.

In 2006, joined the Moscow Novaya Opera Theatre.

Finalist and prize winner of the Riccardo Zandonai Opera Singers Competition, Evgeny Stavinsky has been the invited singer of the Laureates Concerts in Riva del Garda, and performed in the Riva Music Festival productions including Verdi’s Requiem conducted by Isaac Karabtchevsky, and Verdi’s Rigoletto (as Sparafucile), conducted by Marco Boemi.

Among the engagements the role of Méphistophélès in Gounod’s Faust at Opera Theatre in Budapest and at Novaya Opera where won the award “Gold Mask” as best actor in Opera in 2018, Oroveso in Norma by Bellini at Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor by Donizetti at Teatro Comunale in Bologna where he opened 2018 season with Colline in La Boheme, Messa da Requiem by Verdi with Orchestra La Verdi in Milan and in Tenerife , Requiem by Mozart at Carlo Felice in Genoa, Zaccaria in Nabucco in Nice and Toulon, Ivan Khovansky in Khovanshchina in Budapest, the 9th symphony of Beethoven conducted by Maestro Riccardo Muti, the Verdi's Requiem with Berliner Philharmoniker and Maestro Teodor Kurentzis.