Lyric tenor, Kirill Belov’s voice is revered for its “endurance, shameless nuance, and seductive timbre”.

Recent highlights include his North American debut with the Aspen Musical Festival as a Renée Fleming Fellow, performing Fenton in Falstaff, starring Bryn Terfel.

In the 2020-2021 season, Mr. Belov performed the role of the Innocent in Boris Godunov at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo and made his debut at the “Opera for All” festival in St. Petersburg, singing the role of Bogdan Sobinin in A Life for the Tsar, conducted by Fabio Mastrangelo. He was also a soloist of the Bashkir State Opera and Ballet Theater, making his debut in the role of Foresto in Attila.

Mr. Belov was invited to the Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers, under the leadership of Larisa Gergieva, where he made his debut at the Mariinsky Theater, in the role of Kai in Banevich’s opera Kai and Gerda. He then went on to be a soloist of the Youth Opera Program at the Bolshoi Theater of Russia, under the leadership of Dmitry Vdovin, where he participated in various projects, took part in master classes, and performed in the second and fourth International Music Festival of Ildar Abdrazakov.

In competition, Mr. Belov was a quarterfinalist in the 2021 Operalia competition, laureate of the 2019 XXXII Sobinovsky Vocalists’ Competition, 3rd prize-winner of the 2018 XI International Rimsky-Korsakov Competition, diploma-recipient of the 2018 I Sobinov International Vocal Competition, and diploma-recipient of the 2016 I International Fyodor Chaliapin Vocal Competition.

Roles in his repertoire include: the title role in Roméo et Juliette, Nadir in Les pêcheurs de perles, Tonio in La fille du régiment, Arturo in I Puritani, the Duke in Rigoletto, Alfredo in La traviata, Ivan Lykov in The Tsar’s Bride, and Lensky in Eugene Onegin.

Mr. Belov earned his degree from the Ufa State Institute of Arts.