“Dmitry Golovnin shines as her lover Sergei. With a bright, trumpet-like, punchy yet beautiful and colorful tenor, he cleverly and psychologically differentiates the egotistical scoundrel with charm, cunning, and brutality.” - IOCO Kultur im Netz

‍Dmitry Golovnin is a dramatic tenor widely acclaimed for his powerful stage presence and interpretive depth at leading international opera houses. This season, he appears as Grigoriy in a new production of Boris Godunov at Oper Frankfurt and as the Hauptmann in Wozzeck at the Vienna State Opera.

His recent international appearances include Prince Golitsyn in Khovanshchina at Grand Théâtre de Genève; Dante Alighieri in Francesca da Rimini and Andrey in Mazeppa with the Berlin Philharmonic and at the Baden-Baden Festival; Agrippa and Mephistopheles in The Fiery Angel at Teatro Real Madrid; Sergey in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk in Frankfurt and at the Bolshoi Theatre; Hermann in The Queen of Spades and Grigoriy in Boris Godunov at the Vienna State Opera; Alexei in The Gambler and a reprise of Hermann at La Monnaie/De Munt; Prince Myshkin in The Idiot at Theater an der Wien; and Grigoriy in Boris Godunov at Teatro alla Scala and the Concertgebouw, Grishka in The Invisible City of Kitezh at Gran Teatre del Liceu.