Igor Golovatenko

Russian baritone Igor Golovatenko made his Royal Opera debut in the 2018/19 Season as Giorgio Germont (La traviata) and has since sung Enrico Ashton (Lucia di Lammermoor). 

Golovatenko studied at the Moscow Academy of the Choral Arts and won First Prize in St Petersburg’s Three Centuries of Classical Romance Competition and Second Prize in Dresden’s Opera Competition. He is a former soloist with Moscow’s Novaya Opera and now a leading baritone with the Bolshoi Opera, Moscow, singing roles including Malatesta (Don Pasquale), Giorgio Germont, Count di Luna (Il trovatore), Renato (Un ballo in maschera), Rodrigo, Marquis of Posa (Don Carlo), Andrey Shchelkalov (Boris Godunov), Eugene Onegin, Prince Yeletsky (The Queen of Spades), Robert (Iolanta), Lescaut (Manon Lescaut) and Marcello (La bohème). Selected appearances elsewhere include Enrico Ashton for Semperoper Dresden, Prince Yeletsky for Salzburg Festival, Count di Luna (Il trovatore) for Bavarian State Opera, Giorgio Germont for Glyndebourne Festival and Los Angeles Opera, and Eugene Onegin for Savonlinna Festival and Aix-en-Provence Festival. 

Notable concert appearances include Rachmaninoff’s Spring Cantata with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican, Delius’s Mass of Life with the Russian National Philharmonic Orchestra, and recitals in London and Moscow.