Kudaibergen Abildin
tenor
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Kazakhstan born tenor Kudaibergen Abildin made his debut at Oper Frankfurt in the summer of 2022, singing Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi. He joined the Ensemble in 2022/23, during which he sang Tamino & Lukasch in new productions of Die Zauberflöte & Tchaikovsky’sThe Sorceress (get the DVD!) and Lenski in Eugene Onegin. During the 2024/25 season he sang 3rd Foreman in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, a Messenger in Aida, Lukasch again in The Sorceress, a singer in Der Rosenkavalier, Drunk Prisoner in Janáček's From the House of the Dead and Malcolm & 1st Knight of the Grail in new productions of Macbeth & Parsifal. In 2025/26 he sings Pipo again in Offenbach's Bandits, and his first Macduffs, Pinkertons and Edmondos in Macbeth, Madama Butterfly and Manon Lescaut. He studied at the College of Arts in Karaganda before going to the Kazakh National University of Arts in Astana and then the Conservatoire in Maastricht for his masters in 2018, graduating from the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. His repertoire includes Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore), Camille de Rosillon (The Merry Widow), Rodolfo (La Bohème) and Alfredo (La traviata). He won many international competitions and prizes including the 2022 Golden Viktoria at the 11th »Debut« Classic Singing Competition, the Eva Randová Award, a diploma at the Rita Gorr Competition in Ghent and the Elena Obraztsova Competition in St. Petersburg and took part in masterclasses held by people including Sergei Leiferkus, Pyotr Dvorsky, Eva Randova, Larissa Diadkova, Tatiana Smelekova and Barbara Haveman and appeared in concert in the land of his birth, the Netherlands, Czechoslovakia, Belgium and Russia.