On November 3, 2018, the long-awaited premiere of G. Rossini’s opera “The Barber of Seville” took place on the New Stage of the Bolshoi Theater of Russia, directed by Evgeny Pisarev and conducted by Pier Giorgio Morandi. This is the first opera premiere in the new season for the Bolshoi Theater, and for Dmitry Ulyanov as well. A huge international team worked on this performance, and the result met all expectations - the performance turned out to be bright, moving, enchanting, light! Among the leading actors are Hulkar Sabirova, Andrzej Filonczyk, Bogdan Mihai, Giovanni Romeo.
Don Basilio - Dmitry Ulyanov, Don Bartolo - Giovanni Romeo. Scene from the play “The Barber of Seville”. Bolshoi Theatre, November 2018
On November 3, 6 and 8, viewers were able to enjoy the performance of the comic role of music teacher Don Basilio by Dmitry Ulyanov, and you can read about how this happened in the short press review below.
Soon photographs from the performance will appear on our website, you can already see several of them here.
The next shows will take place in April, but Dmitry will no longer be able to take part in them. Follow the announcements on our website!
“The bass Dmitry Ulyanov performed the part of Basilio, performing his role in relief, with a lot of semantic nuances, which was facilitated by the singer’s beautiful, voluminous, powerful voice. The stage interaction of the performer with his partners added credibility to what was happening on stage.”
— Lyudmila Krasnova (newsmuz.com, 06.11.2018)
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“Opera is replete with colorful characters and vocal hits that have brought fame to more than one generation of artists. However, in the Bolshoi production there is only one work that is truly worthy of the country's first theater - Basilio, performed by the MAMT premier and guest soloist of the Bolshoi Theater Dmitry Ulyanov. In terms of singing and acting, his colorful music teacher is several heads superior to his more significant colleagues.”
— Svetlana Naborshchikova (Izvestia, 06.11.2018)
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“Figaro (Andrzej Filonczyk), like Don Basilio (Dmitry Ulyanov) decorated the performance with singing “full-bloodedness”, and the acting “gadgets” he proposed were worked out with soul. »
— Maya Krylova (Inspector, 5.11.2018/XNUMX/XNUMX)
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“Dmitry Ulyanov, in the role of Basilio, creates the expectedly spectacular alternative to high voices and simply acts to his heart’s content.”
— Yulia Bederova (Newspaper “Kommersant” No. 203,
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“The best basses among our colleagues were the Italian Giovanni Romeo (Bartolo) and especially Dmitry Ulyanov, discharged from the musical theater named after K.S. Stanislavsky and Vl.I. Nemirovich-Danchenko for the role of Basilio. He brilliantly performed the main hit of the opera, the aria “On Slander,” and was the only one who received a standing ovation. »
— Maria Babalova (Russian newspaper, Federal issue No. 7711 (248), 05.11.2018/XNUMX/XNUMX)
Aria about Slander. Dmitry Ulyanov as Don Basilio