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TACT Artists in the 2025/26 Season at Staatsoper Hamburg

TACT Artists in the 2025/26 Season at Staatsoper Hamburg
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We are thrilled to announce that several artists from TACT’s roster will grace the stage of Staatsoper Hamburg in the upcoming 2025/26 season, showcasing their exceptional talent in some of the most celebrated operatic masterpieces.

At the beginning of the season, Andrii Kymach will star as Ford in Verdi’s ‘Falstaff’, with performances running from October 2 to October 15, 2025.

In November and December, Staatsoper Hamburg will present Glinka’s ‘Ruslan and Lyudmila’, featuring a stellar cast of TACT artists. Ilia Kazakov will take on the role of Ruslan, while Gabriela Legun will enchant audiences as Lyudmila. Performances for this opera are scheduled from November 9 to December 19, 2025.

Aleksandra Olczyk will mesmerize audiences as the Queen of the Night in Mozart’s ‘Die Zauberflöte’, with performances from November 23 to January 3.

Also in November, Ewa Płonka will take on the title role in Puccini’s ‘Tosca’, with performances running from November 29 to January 1, 2026.

As we enter the new year, David Leigh will captivate audiences as Daland in Wagner’s ‘Der fliegende Holländer’, with performances scheduled from January 13 to January 30, 2026.

In February and March, Maestro Timur Zangiev will conduct Tchaikovsky’s ‘Pique Dame’, featuring Lukasz Golinski as Count Tomsky from February 7 to March 13, 2026.

As spring unfolds, Staatsoper Hamburg will present two major productions featuring TACT artists. In Verdi’s ‘Il Trovatore’, Boris Pinkhasovich will take on the role of Count di Luna, with performances running from March 18 to April 8, 2026.

Meanwhile, Wagner’s ‘Lohengrin’ will showcase the powerful voices of Yulia Matochkina as Ortrud and Szymon Mechlinski as Herrufer, with performances scheduled from March 22 to April 11, 2026.

We are proud to see these outstanding artists showcasing their artistry in Hamburg and look forward to an unforgettable season at Staatsoper Hamburg!

Timur Zangiev

Timur Zangiev

Conductor

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Andrii Kymach

Andrii Kymach

Baritone

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Kymach is commanding with impressive stage presence and a rich, smooth voice full of dark chocolate and the finest old tawny port.

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Ilia Kazakov

Ilia Kazakov

Bass

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Gabriela Maria Legun

Gabriela Legun

Soprano

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"...eine exzellente Schauspielerin...stimmlich perfekt."

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Aleksandra Anna Olczyk

Aleksandra Olczyk

Soprano

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"Triumphant Queen of the Night by Aleksandra Olczyk in those two great and imperishable arias that created the greatest composer of all times"

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Ewa Płonka

Ewa Płonka

Soprano

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“... a wonderful continuous vocal line and impressive stage presence[...]solid low notes, broad middle range and brilliant high notes of her...

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David Leigh

David Leigh

Bass

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"David Leigh is Sarastro from the moment he opens his mouth, and it's a struggle to decide what is more impressive: his telluric low notes or his...

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Łukasz Goliński

Łukasz Goliński

Bass-Baritone

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"Polish baritone dominated the opera's closing stages with textual clarity and a heroic timbre and set about his duty of slaughter with righteous...

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Iuliia Matochkina

Yulia Matochkina

Mezzo Soprano

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"... the ideal mélange of metal and velvet in her timbre, authentically Italianate in style" - The Opera Critic

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Boris Pinkhasovich

Boris Pinkhasovich

Baritone

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"Sublime, giving proof of an excellent technical mastery and wearing a timbre of elegant nobility that catches the heart"

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Szymon Piotr Mechlinski

Szymon Mechlinski

Baritone

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"Polish baritone Szymon Mechlinski plays a fabulous Onegin. The voice is sonorous, imperious, brittle as well as caressing." - Forum Opera Magazine

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