Yuri Kissin - Bass

Yuri Kissin is a former member of the Paris Opera Studio, where he had the opportunity to perform many times: at the Opera Bastille, Sciarrone in Tosca, Zweiter Gralsritter in Parsifal, conducted by James Conlon, Der Aufseher and Der Prugler in a production of the new opera K…  by Philippe Manoury conducted by Dennis Russel Davis, and participated in War and Peace conducted by Gary Bertini. He sang the part of one of the Deputati Fiamminghi in Don Carlos conducted by James Conlon. Yuri also performed as Don Alfonso (Cosi Fan Tutte), Don Basilio (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Sancho (Don Quichotte), and Don Pasquale in the Amphitheatre Bastille. He was Il conte di Ceprano (Rigoletto), and Il Medico (Macbeth), as well as parts in productions such as Boris Godunov, Evgeny Onegin, La Traviata, Lulu, Ariadne auf Naxos, Dialogues des Carmèlites, Capriccio... all of these both on Paris Bastille and Garnier stages.
 
Yuri Kissin performed Napoleon in Hary Janos in Montpellier (Radio France Festival), where he also sang Tom from Un Ballo in Maschera and Des Esels Schatten (R. Strauss). For his debut with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Maestro Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos, he sang the part of Zuniga in Carmen. He was a vocal soloist in Janacek's Glagolitic Mass with the Orchestre de Paris, under the baton of Pierre Boulez.
 
Last season, he made his debuts at the Capitole Opera in Toulouse, singing one of the six Deputati Fiamminghi and a Grand d’Espagne in Don Carlo, was the Imperiale Commisario (Madama Butterfly) and Il conte di Ceprano (Rigoletto) at the Paris Opera – Bastille, and performed Kuno in Der Freischütz in Opera de Rennes, in Clermont Ferrand he sang Il Portiere in La Notte di un Nevrastenico by Nino Rota. Also he made his Toulon Opera debut as Haly in l'Italiana in Algeri, and as Botanist in Chaposhnikov's “Poisonned Garden” with the Orchestre National de France for Radio France.

   This season, Yuri Kissin returned as a Fifth Jew in Salome and Schlemil in Les Contes d'Hoffmann to the Opera de Paris, and made his remarkable debuts at the Opera de Dijon in Der Fliegende Hollander (Daland) and at the Opera de Limoges in Ariadne auf Naxos (Truffaldino).

 His projects include Le Medecin in Pelleas et Melisande at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Sciarrone in Tosca and Der Einaugige in Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Opera national de Paris. He will sing Snug in  A Midsummer Night's Dream at  Opéra national de Lorraine, Grand-Théatre de Caen and  Opera  de  Toulon.

Mr. Kissin is represented by Mr. Uri Zur