Kudaibergen Abildin
tenor
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Kazakhstan born tenor Kudaibergen Abildin made his debut at Oper Frankfurt in 2022, singing Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi. Since joining the Ensemble in 2022/23 roles have included Tamino & Lukasch in new productions of Die Zauberflöte & Tchaikovsky's The Sorceress (get the DVD!), Lenski (Eugene Onegin), 3rd Foreman (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk), a Messenger (Aida), an Italian Singer (Der Rosenkavalier), a Drunk Prisoner (Janáček's From the House of the Dead), Malcolm & 1st Knight of the Grail in new productions of Macbeth & Parsifal, Pipo in Offenbach's Bandits, Arbate in a new production of Mitridate, re di Ponto, and his first Macduffs, Pinkertons and Edmondos in Macbeth, Madama Butterfly and Manon Lescaut. During the 2026/27 season he sings Wakula (role debut) in Rimsky-Korsakov's Christmas Eve and a Drunk Kossack & Master of Ceremonies in new productions of Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa & Prokofiev's Love for Three Oranges. 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.