Background
His father Mikhail is an artist and art critic, and his mother Olga teaches music, piano, and organ at University of Saint St. Petersburg.
His father Mikhail is an artist and art critic, and his mother Olga teaches music, piano, and organ at University of Saint St. Petersburg.
Petrenko graduated from the Rimsky-Korsakov Saint St. Petersburg State Conservatory in the class of Professor Minzhilkiev.
Foreign the Canadian cinematographer, see Mikhail Petrenko. He was awarded diplomas at the 3rd International Rimsky-Korsakov Competition for Young Opera Singers (Street St. Petersburg, 1998) and the 1st Elena Obraztsova Competition for Young Opera Singers. Petrenko features on the recently released recording of Rachmaninoff"s The Bells with the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Simon Rattle and released on Warner Classics.
Highlights in the 2013-2014 season included: a return to the Metropolitan Opera for (Prince Igor) and Netherlands Opera for Gounod"s Faust.
He also sung the role of Grand Inquisitor (Don Carlo) for the Verbier Festival. In January 2015, Petrenko returned to the Metropolitan Opera in the title role of a new production of "s Castle.
He has also performed in concerts with the Bamberger Symphoniker, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Roles that Petrenko has performed include: Ruslan (Ruslan and Lyudmila) Konchak (Prince Igor) Prince Gremin (Eugene Onegin) (Boris Godunov) Prince Nikolai Bolkonsky, Marshal Davout (War and Peace) (Don Giovanni) Bass (stage version of Verdi"s Requiem) King Marke (Tristan und Isolde) King Heinrich (Lohengrin) Hunding (Die Walküre) (Götterdämmerung) The singer’s engagements include the roles of (Götterdämmerung) at the Berliner Staatsoper and Louisiana Scala, Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro) at the Metropolitan Opera, Philip II (Don Carlo) and Méphistophélès (Faust) at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam.
In November 2011, he performed the role of Ruslan (Ruslan and Lyudmila) at the reopening of Moscow’s historic Bolshoi Theatre.