Artist · Bass
Yuri Vorobiev
Biography
Yuri Vorobiev is a bass born in Leningrad. He graduated from the Glinka Academic Cappella Choral School in 1998 before continuing his studies at the St Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire. He joined the Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers in 2002 and the theatre’s opera company in 2009. He was a prizewinner at the Rimsky-Korsakov competition in 2004.
His stage repertoire includes Colline in La bohème, Ramfis in Aida, Sparafucile in Rigoletto, Timur in Turandot, Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte and Gurnemanz in Parsifal. His concert work includes Bach’s Mass in B minor, Mozart’s and Verdi’s Requiems, and Shostakovich’s Fourteenth Symphony. He has toured internationally with the Mariinsky forces and made his Royal Opera House debut as Colline in 2012. His Da Vinci recordings include Sarti’s Magnificat and Gloria in excelsis under Mattia Rondelli.