Dmytro Popov │Hymns of Love

The Ukrainian tenor Dmytro Popov began his career as Lensky in Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin" at the National Theater in Kiev.
He caused an international sensation in 2013 in the role of Rodolfo in Puccini's "La Bohème" at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden.

Since then, Dmytro Popov has taken on various roles at major opera houses worldwide: Nicias Thais at the Teatro Regio in Turin, Pinkerton in Madame Butterfly, Cavaradossi in Tosca and Rodolfo in Luisa Miller at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Vaudémont in Iolanta at the Teatro Real Madrid, Macduff in Macbeth at the Lyon National Opera, Andrej in Mazeppa (Monte Carlo Opera) and Riccardo in Makenball (Toulouse).

Other successful opera performances by Dmytro Popov include: La Traviata (Teatro Regio Torino), Iolanta (Paris Opera), Tosca (Semperoper Dresden), Rusalka (Cologne Opera), A Masked Ball (German Opera and Bolshoi).

Despite pandemic restrictions, he sang in La Traviata at the Metropolitan Opera, Madame Butterfly at the Paris Opera, Carmen at the Cologne Opera and the Verdi Requiem at the Hamburg State Opera in 2019/20. With his return to opera in 2021, he sang in Mazeppa at the Bolshoi, in Carmen at the Vienna State Opera and in Rusalka at the Bavarian State Opera.

In addition to opera, Dmytro Popov is also an established concert singer. For example, he sang "The Bells" by Rachmaninov with the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome under the direction of Antonio Pappano and with the Berlin Philharmonic under Sir Simon Rattle.

Other concert appearances include: Verdi's Requiem at the BBC Proms, the Tanglewood Music Festival with the London Symphony Orchestra and at the Hamburg State Opera, Don José in Carmen, in concert at the Verbier Festival. He toured Europe with the Verdi Requiem under Teodor Currentzis and sang Dvorak's Stabat Mater with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Andris Nelsons.

This season he returns to the Semperoper Dresden for Norma and Tosca, to the Bavarian State Opera and Covent Garden for Carmen, to the Hamburg State Opera for La Traviata, NDR Hamburg and Cologne Opera for Rusalka and many more.

Dmytro Popov works with great conductors such as Antonio Pappano, Sir Mark Elder, Andris Nelsons, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Giampaolo Bisanti, Valery Gergiev, Carlo Rizzi, Thomas Søndergård, Vladimir Jurowski and Teodor Currentzis.

His most recent solo CD recording was "Hymns of Love" (Orchid Classic), recorded with the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin. Dmytro Popov will perform arias from the CD program, accompanied by Matthias Smuil on the piano, at the Taggenbrunn Festival.

The German pianist Matthias Samuil began his piano training at the age of six and attended the "C.P.E.Bach" grammar school for the musically gifted in Berlin. After graduating from high school, he studied concert piano with Annerose Schmidt and Hella Walter at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin and attended master classes with Murray Perahia, Leon Fleisher, Brigitte Engerer and Graham Johnson. He also devoted himself to Lied accompaniment and chamber music, studying with Wolfram Rieger, Walter Olbertz and Semion Skigin and gaining valuable inspiration from his work with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Krassimira Stoyanova, Deborah Polaski and Johan Botha.

As a soloist and accompanist, he has won several prizes at international competitions, most recently the prize for best piano accompanist at the "Triomphe de l'Art" competition in Brussels in fall 2016, and was also a scholarship holder of the "Bildung und Begabung" association and the Richard Wagner Association.

Matthias Samuil is one of the most sought-after piano partners of the younger generation and regularly performs alongside important singers such as Olga Peretyatko, Dmytro Popov, Anna Samuil, Michaela Kaune, Dimitry Ivashchenko and Nadja Michael, Dmitry Korchak, Elena Maximova, Pavol Breslik, Julia Novikova, Slávka Zámečníková, Alfredo Daza, Serena Sáenz, Marina Prudenskaya, Mandy Fredrich, Roman Trekel, Lena Belkina, Aleksey Tatarintsev, Evelin Novak and Massimiliano Pisapia. His intensive concert activity has already taken him to the Berlin, Essen and Bratislava Philharmonic Halls, the "Palau de les Arts" in Valencia, the "Teatro Colón" in Buenos Aires and the "International House of Music" in Moscow, the Staatsoper "Unter den Linden" and Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, the Händel-Halle in Halle, as well as to Dresden, Cologne, Hamburg, Munich, Vienna, Paris, Prague, St. Petersburg, Zurich, Basel, Lausanne, Krakow and other cities in Germany, France, Italy, Russia, Spain and Croatia,
Switzerland and the USA. He has also performed at the festivals in Verbier, Aix-en-Provence, Sion, Jūrmala (Latvia) and Koufonisia (Greece), at the Verão Clássico in Lisbon, the Gabala Music Festival in Azerbaijan, the chamber music festival "intonations" in Berlin and at the festivals in Baden-Baden, Dresden and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. In 2014, he gave a recital at the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi and made his debut with Mozart's Piano Concerto in A major KV 414 in the Great Hall of the Konzerthaus Berlin.
Radio and television recordings as well as CD productions document his artistic work. Matthias Samuil already worked as a répétiteur at the University of Potsdam during his first years of study and has been teaching song interpretation and solo répétition at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin since 2006 and at the Rostock University of Music and Drama since 2021.