Boris Pinkhasovich

Boris Pinkhasovich studied conducting and singing in his hometown Saint-Petersburg. Upon graduating cum laude in 2011, he was immediately engaged as a soloist at the prestigious Mikhailovsky Theatre in Saint-Petersburg, where he sang numerous principal roles, such as Prince Yeletsky and Count Tomsky in“The Queen of Spades”, Giorgio Germont in La traviata, Robert in Iolanta, Belcore in L’elisir d’amore, Silvio and Tonio in Pagliacci, Lescaut in Manon Lescaut, Marcello in La bohème, Graf Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro and Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia. Soon afterwards, his international career took off with engagements at the Bavarian State Opera in München as Onegin, Ford, Sharpless and in October 2021 as Kovalyov in the acclaimed production of Shostakovitch’s Nos, at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden (Shchelkalov and Marcello), at the Opéra de Paris, the Opéra in Monte Carlo, Concertgebouw Amsterdam and the Salzburg Festival. One of the highlights of the season 2021/2022 was his appearances as Prince Yeletsky (The Queen of Spades) with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Kirill Petrenko at the Easter Festival in Baden-Baden and in the Berlin Philharmonie. Future engagements include debuts at Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Semper Oper in Dresden, the Zürich Opera, the State Opera Hamburg and returns to the Bavarian State Opera, Vienna State Opera and ROH Covent Garden. His debut at the Vienna State Opera was in 2018 as Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia, followed by Eugen Onegin, Sharpless, Ford, Rodrigo, Yeletzki and Lescaut.