Lyric Opera 2022-2023 Issue 4- Don Carlos

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 26 DMITRI BELOSSELSKIY | PHILIPPE Previously at Lyric: Prince Gremin/ Eugene Onegin (2016/17), Zaccaria/ Nabucco (2015/16). This season, the Russian bass will perform in the Verdi Requiem in Houston, followed by I vespri siciliani at Teatro alla Scala, Wozzeck at the Wiener Staatsoper, and Der iegende Holländer , Aida, and Don Giovanni at the Metropolitan Opera. This summer at Bayreuth, he will sing Hagen in Götterdämmerung . Recent roles include Gremin at Houston Grand Opera, and Zaccaria/ Nabucco and Ram s/ Aida at the Metropolitan Opera, where he has also appeared as Silva/ Ernani and the Old Convict/ Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk . He took the title role in Boris Godunov at the Bavarian State Opera, sang Prince Ivan Khovansky/ Khovanshchina at the Vienna State Opera, and opened the 2015/16 season as Talbot/ Giovanna d’Arco at La Scala, where he has also portrayed Fiesco/ Simon Boccanegra . Belosselskiy was featured as Count Walter/ Luisa Miller at the Teatro Real in Madrid. Among other prestigious venues, he has performed at the Salzburg Festival (Banquo/ Macbeth ), Rome’s Teatro dell’Opera ( Nabucco ), Zurich Opera House (Galitsky/ Prince Igor ), Korean National Opera ( Simon Boccanegra ), and Macau International Music Festival (Ferrando/ Il trovatore ). He has appeared with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in performances of Macbeth and Berlioz’s Romeo and Juliet . SOLOMAN HOWARD | GRAND INQUISITOR Previously at Lyric: Wurm/ Luisa Miller (2019/20). Howard has recently appeared at the Metropolitan Opera ( Aida , The Magic Flute ), Royal Opera House ( Aida ), Teatro Real ( Aida , La bohème ), Opéra national de Bordeaux ( Simon Boccanegra ), San Francisco Opera ( Tosca , Fidelio , Don Giovanni , Turandot ), Los Angeles Opera ( Don Carlos ), Santa Fe Opera ( Don Giovanni , La bohème ), and on an international concert tour with The English Concert ( Semele ). A graduate of Washington National Opera’s Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program, he appeared with his home company in The Magic Flute ; Show Boat ; Don Giovanni ; Der Ring des Nibelungen ; The Lion , The Unicorn , and Me ; Approaching Ali ; Nabucco ; and Philip Glass’s Appomattox. Future performances include Dallas Opera ( Das Rheingold ), Gran Teatre del Liceu ( Il barbiere di Siviglia ), and the Met ( The Magic Flute ). PEIXIN CHEN | MONK Lyric debut The bass’s wide repertoire spans from the comic parts of Donizetti, Mozart, and Rossini to the serious roles of Puccini, Verdi, and Wagner. Signature roles include Sarastro in The Magic Flute at the Metropolitan Opera, Houston Grand Opera, and Opera Philadelphia; The King of Egypt in Aida for Los Angeles Opera, Cincinnati Opera, and Houston Grand Opera; Colline in La boheme at Opera Philadelphia and Washington National Opera (upcoming); Sparafucile in Rigoletto at Santa Fe Opera and the Lyric Opera of Kansas City; Hunding in Die Walküre with Houston Grand Opera; an upcoming presentation of Fasolt in Das Rheingold with The Dallas Opera; both the title role and Bartolo in Le nozze di Figaro with Opera Saratoga, Beijing’s National Center for the Performing Arts, and Houston Grand Opera; and Basilio (San Francisco Opera) and Don Bartolo (Houston Grand Opera) in Il barbiere di Siviglia . In concert, he has sung the Verdi Requiem with the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra and Chorus, and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the San Diego Symphony, the Kansas City Symphony Orchestra, and the Houston Symphony. DENIS VÉLEZ | THIBAULT Previously at Lyric: Papagena/ The Magic Flute , Giannetta/ The Elixir of Love (both 2021/22). The soprano, a third-year Ryan Opera Center member from Puebla, Mexico, sang in Sunday in the Park with Lyric this summer. This season at Lyric, Vélez will also appear in Hansel and Gretel and Carmen . She was a national winner of the Metropolitan Opera’s 2020 Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition. In Mexico’s most important platform for rising talent, the National Singing Contest Carlo Morelli, her performance earned her the First Prize, the French Opera award, and the Francisco Araiza Special Award. Her repertoire includes the Countess and Susanna/ The Marriage of Figaro , Bastienne/ Bastien und Bastienne , Fiordiligi/ Così fan tutte , Adina/ The Elixir of Love , and Mimì/ La bohème . In Spring 2021, she sang in the Harris Theater’s Beyond the Aria series alongside Joyce DiDonato, and appeared in Lyric’s 2020/21 virtual programs Pasión Latina , Sole e Amore , Magical Music Around the World , and Rising Stars in Concert . Denis Vélez is sponsored by The C.G.Pinnell Family. LAUREANO QUANT | COUNT OF LERMA Lyric debut This season, the Colombian native will also appear in Carmen and Proximity at Lyric. A rst-year Ensemble member of the Ryan Opera Center, Quant’s repertoire includes Belcore/ The Elixir of Love , Guglielmo/ Così fan tutte , Figaro/Saverio Mercadante’s I due Figaro , Maguire/ Tobias Picker’s Emmeline , Zurga/ The Pearl Fishers , Vittorio and The Boarder/Nino Rota’s I due timidi , Demetrius/ A Midsummer Night’s Dream , and the Captain and Prince Ragotsky/ Candide . The baritone was awarded Second Place in both the Western (2022) and Southeastern (2020) Regions in the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition.