Opera San José - Vitali Rozynko

Vitali Rozynko,
baritone

Vitali Rozynko appears as Germont in OSJ's 2006 - 2007 production of La traviata. Mr. Rozynko recently made several successful debuts, including his performance as Schaunard (La bohème) with Boston Lyric Opera which received critical acclaim. Other recent performances include his Italian debut at the Spoleto Festival as Salvatore in Menotti's The Saint of Bleecker Street which received a Grammy nomination, and he performed the role of the Imperial Commissioner (Madama Butterfly) with Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. On the concert stage, he was a featured soloist with The American Bach Soloists in a concert of Bach cantatas, and also made a debut performance at both the Ravinia Festival and Wigmore Hall.

Other recent engagements have included Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s Cantatas with The American Bach Soloists, Masetto and the title role in Don Giovanni with Opera Colorado, and recently Masetto in the highly publicized Don Juan in Prague at the new Fisher Center for the Performing Arts. During the spring of 2005 Mr. Rozynko sang the leading role in Hindemith's opera Sancta Susanna in the acclaimed production by Margrith Vrenegoor with Opera Spanga which toured the Netherlands and later a performance of Mozart's Requiem in Paris.

Engagements for the 2003-2004 season included a return to Opera Colorado as Schaunard (la bohème), a debut as Silvio (Pagliacci) with Mississippi Opera, his debut as a soloist in Bernstein's Mass with L'Orchestre National d'Ile de France, and a return to Bard for Francesca Zambello's production of Shostakovich's The Nose.

Mr. Rozynko has performed Harlekin (Ariadne auf Naxos) with Opera Colorado, Baron Douphol (La traviata), Sciarrone (Tosca), and the Second Philistine (Samson et Dalila) at Cincinnati Opera, Bello (La Fanciulla del West) with Santa Fe Opera, Guglielmo (Così fan tutte) at the Aldeburgh Festival, Nardo (Die Gartnerin aus Liebe) at the London Royal Opera, Masetto (Don Giovanni) at Chelsea Opera under Sir Colin Davis, Don Fernando (Fidelio) with the Rochester Philharmonic, and Mr. Bluff (The Impresario) at the Opera Theatre of Rochester.

Upcoming engagements will feature Mr. Rozynko in a debut with the Concertgebouw in the fall of 2006 when he will take part in Zemlinsky's opera Der König Kandaules. He will then return to the Concertgebouw in spring 2007 to sing the role of Deceit in Gerald Barry's opera The Triumph of Beauty and Deceit.

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