IMG Artists is delighted to welcome baritone Andrei Bondarenko to our roster for general management. He will be represented by Senior Vice President and Head of UK Vocal, Sam Snook and Assistant Artist Manager Joseph Lenehan.
This season, Mr. Bondarenko will return to Teatro Massimo di Palermo for a role debut as Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde, as well as a recent return to The Glyndebourne Festival, where he sang the title role in Don Giovanni. At the Volksoper Wien, he performs Germont in La Traviata, Marcello in La bohème and Rambaldo in La Rondine.
A frequent guest artist at some of the world’s most prestigious opera houses, Andrei Bondarenko has sung many performances as the title role in Eugene Onegin (Deutsche Oper Berlin, The Dallas Opera, Glyndebourne Festival, NCPA (Beijing), Staatstheater Stuttgart, Israeli Opera, Theatro Municipal de São Paulo, Oper Köln, Vilnius City Opera), Malatesta in Don Pasquale (Opernhaus Zürich, Glyndebourne Festival), the title role in Don Giovanni (Glyndebourne Festival, Staatsoper Hamburg, Teatro Verdi di Padova, Palm Beach Opera), Conte in Le nozze di Figaro (Teatro Real, Opera Australia, StaatsoperHamburg, Bolshoi Theatre, Mariinsky Theater, Perm Opera), Marcello in La bohème (Opernhaus Zürich, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Glyndebourne Festival, Oper Köln), Guglielmo in Così fan tutte (Opernhaus Zürich, Oper Köln, Glyndebourne Festival), Papageno in Die Zauberflöte (Mariinsky Theater), Robert in Iolanta (Oper Köln, The Dallas Opera, Teatro Comunale di Bologna), Belcore in L’Elisir d’Amore (Bayerische Staatsoper, Israeli Opera, Oper imSteinbruch), Dandini in La Cenerentola (Oper Köln) Albert in Werther (Opernhaus Zürich), the title role in Billy Budd (Mikhailovsky Theater) and Rodrigo in Don Carlo (Semperoper Dresden).
Of the collaboration, Mr. Bondarenko says, “I am incredibly excited to share the next step in my career with one of the best management teams in the world, IMG Artists, and to work with Sam, who has a real talent to support singers in their achievements!” Likewise, Sam Snook exclaimed, “I am very pleased to work with such an accomplished and talented artist like Andrei. I look forward to a fruitful relationship and many continued successes in his career.”