Damir Basyrov

Guest of the State Opera Prague

Damir Basyrov graduated from the Academy of Music in Gorky in the class of Prof. Yuri Mazurok, and has won prizes in a number of international vocal competitions: first prize in Karlovy Vary in 1987, first prize in Riga in 1989, and second prize in Caltanisetta in 1992. From 1989 to 1992 he was a regular soloist with the Grand Theater in Moscow. Starting in 1993 he appeared as guest with the Prague State Opera, where he accepted a regular engagement starting in 1997. Here he has performed such roles as Posa in Don Carlos, Renato in Un ballo in maschera, Germont in La traviata, Rigoletto, Luna in Il Trovatore, Escamillo in Carmen, Eugene Onegin, Valentin in Faust, Belcore in The Elixir of Love, and Fanuel in Nerone. He collaborates with the Czech Philharmonic and the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra and sings as a guest with other opera houses in the Czech Republic. He has appeared before foreign audiences in many operatic roles and on concert stages, in almost all countries of Europe as well as Brazil, Argentina, Japan, Taiwan, and Australia.