Andrey Zhilikhovsky

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The Moldovan baritone Andrey Zhilikhovsky studied choral conducting and voice. Early in his career he won several competition prizes and appeared at the Mikhailovsky Theatre in St Petersburg as the Prince in the children’s opera Cinderella by Boris Asafiev, as Belcore (L’elisir d’amore), Schaunard (La bohème), Robert (Iolanta), Silvano (Un ballo in maschera), Baron Douphol (La traviata) and Dancaïro (Carmen).

In 2011 he made his debut as Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia) at the Latvian National Opera in Riga. In the 2011/12 season he joined the Young Artists Program of the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, where he has since appeared as Eugene Onegin, Malatesta (Don Pasquale), Dr Falke (Die Fledermaus), Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), Marcello (La bohème) and the Merchant of Venice in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sadko.

Further engagements have included Belcore and Andrey Bolkonsky (War and Peace) at the Bavarian State Opera, Robert at the Paris Opéra, Don Ferdinand (The Duenna) at the Berlin State Opera, Malatesta, Figaro and Don Giovanni at the Glyndebourne Festival, Figaro and Guglielmo at Washington National Opera, Count Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro) at the Komische Oper Berlin and the Edinburgh Festival, Yeletsky (Pique Dame) at the Liceu in Barcelona, and Marcello at the Teatro Regio in Turin, the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the Royal Opera House in London.

In the 2024/25 season he debuted as Posa (Don Carlos) at the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki and performed Don Pedro in a concert version of Donizetti’s Maria Padilla at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, as well as Figaro at the Metropolitan Opera.

Current engagements include Lionel in Tchaikovsky’s The Maid of Orleans at Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam, Sharpless (Madama Butterfly) at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, and Count Almaviva at the Royal Opera House in London.

Performances with Andrey Zhilikhovsky

Saison 2025-26
Mon
15 Dec
19:00—21:30
Giacomo Puccini
Oper Main Stage

with Juan Diego Flórez, Nicole Car, Andrey Zhilikhovsky, Jusung Gabriel Park, Ivo Stanchev, Anna Bondarenko, Conductor: Giacomo Sagripanti

La Bohème

Cast on Monday 15. December 2025

Musikalische Leitung

Inszenierung und Bühne

Franco Zeffirelli

Kostüme

Marcel Escoffier
Abo 15

Ticket information

Einen Wochentag und Lieblingsplätze wählen und fünf Vorstellungen in einer Saison genießen.

In diesem Abo sind folgende Vorstellungen enthalten:

29. September 2025Tosca
15. Dezember 2025La Bohème
12. Jänner 2026Kallirhoe (Ballett)
13. April 2026Wozzeck
18. Mai 2026Der Rosenkavalier
Thu
18 Dec
19:00—21:30
Giacomo Puccini
Oper Main Stage

with Juan Diego Flórez, Nicole Car, Andrey Zhilikhovsky, Jusung Gabriel Park, Ivo Stanchev, Anna Bondarenko, Conductor: Giacomo Sagripanti

La Bohème

Cast on Thursday 18. December 2025

Musikalische Leitung

Inszenierung und Bühne

Franco Zeffirelli

Kostüme

Marcel Escoffier
U27
Zyklus »Zum Einstieg«

Ticket information

Be­stimm­te Wer­ke er­freu­en sich welt­wei­ter Be­liebt­heit auf­grund ih­rer fes­seln­den Hand­lung, ih­rer ge­nia­len Mu­sik oder dem Wie­der­er­ken­nungs­wert ein­gän­gi­ger Me­lo­dien. Die­se Stü­cke spre­chen so­wohl Opern­pro­fis an, eig­nen sich aber auch be­son­ders gut für die­je­ni­gen, die am An­fang ih­rer Rei­se durch den un­end­li­chen Kos­mos Oper ste­hen.

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Sun
21 Dec
19:00—21:30
Giacomo Puccini
Oper Main Stage

with Juan Diego Flórez, Nicole Car, Andrey Zhilikhovsky, Jusung Gabriel Park, Ivo Stanchev, Anna Bondarenko, Conductor: Giacomo Sagripanti

La Bohème

Cast on Sunday 21. December 2025

Musikalische Leitung

Inszenierung und Bühne

Franco Zeffirelli

Kostüme

Marcel Escoffier
Thu
25 Dec
18:30—21:00
Giacomo Puccini
Oper Main Stage

with Juan Diego Flórez, Nicole Car, Andrey Zhilikhovsky, Jusung Gabriel Park, Ivo Stanchev, Anna Bondarenko, Conductor: Giacomo Sagripanti

La Bohème

Cast on Thursday 25. December 2025

Musikalische Leitung

Inszenierung und Bühne

Franco Zeffirelli

Kostüme

Marcel Escoffier

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