Vladislav Sulimsky is becoming a leading exponent of the Verdi baritone repertoire.

Recent Highlights include his return to the Berliner Staatsoper as Conte di Luna (Trovatore) as well as his debuts at the Oper Leipzig as Iago (Otello) and at the Oper Köln in Luisa Miller.

Prior the pandemic, he made his debuts at the Staatsoper in Berlin as Conte di Luna (Trovatore) and sung Iago (Otello) at the Wiener Staatsoper, following his 2018 debut at the Salzburg Festival in a new production of Pique Dame. He also took the title-role in Rigoletto at the Wiesbaden State Theatre. Covid saw his debut at the Paris Opera postponed, as well as his return to the Berlin Staatsoper.

He made his Swedish debut in 2012 at the Malmö Opera in Verdi’s Luisa Miller. He subsequently returned to Sweden to perform the title-role in Eugene Onegin and Renato (Ballo in Maschera) at the Stockholm Royal Opera. He sang Rodrigo (Don Carlos) at the Baden-Baden Festival, Prince Krljatew (Charodeyka) at the Theater an der Wien, made his Swiss debut at the Basel theatre singing the title-role of Macbeth and returned for la Forza del Destino. He made his Edinburgh International Festival debut as Alberich (Das Rheingold).

Recent performances include the title role of Mazeppa in Baden-Baden and in Berlin with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Kirill Petrenko, as well as in Oviedo, Tomsky (Pique Dame) in Baden-Baden and in Stuttgart, Rigoletto at the Sankt Margarethen Opera Festival, Germont in La Traviata at the Dallas Opera, Francesca da Rimini at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Luisa Miller in Glyndebourne, Rigoletto at the Royal Opera House in Muscat, etc.

Born in Belorussia, Vladislav won first prize at the International Rimsky-Korsakov Competition in Saint- Petersburg in 2002. He subsequently became a soloist at the Mariinsky Theatre, where he continues to give critically-acclaimed performances, including the title roles of Eugene Onegin, Simon Boccanegra, Macbeth, Rigoletto and Gianni Schicchi.

He has also won second prize at the International Elena Obraztsova Competition in 2006, first prize at the International Giacomo Lauri-Volpi Competition in 2010, and a Grammy Award Nomination for his recording of The Nose with Valery Gergiev in 2009.