Dennis Chmelensky
baritone
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This German-American baritone is making his debut at Oper Frankfurt singing Don Polidoro in Cimarosa's L’italiana in Londra. He recently sang Marquis de Corcy in Adolphe Adams' Der Postillon von Lonjumeau at the Tirol 2023 Winter Festival in Erl. He trained in the Staatsoper children's chorus and cathedral choir in Berlin, where he appeared as a soloist in stage with conductors including Daniel Barenboim, Sir Simon Rattle and Kent Nagano. He joined the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia on a Guna S. Mundheim scholarship, where he studied opera singing in studios run by Marlena Malas and Mikael Eliasen. He has won many competitions and awards, was semi-finalist at the 2022 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition and won the Prix Thierry Mermod. Dennis Chmelensky is a former member of Washington National Opera's Cafritz Young Artist Programme. This young singer's repertoire includes Peter (the father) in Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel, Tom in Verdis Un ballo in maschera (both at the Verbier Festival), Sensor in Jeanine Tesori's new opera Grounded (Washington National Opera and Metropolitan Opera), Mozart's Don Giovanni and Junior in Bernstein's A Quiet Place (both at Opera Philadelphia) and Papageno in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte at the Chautauqua Music Festival. He has also appeared at festivals and in concert at places including the Carnegie Hall, the Konzerthaus Berlin, National Gallery of Art in Washington, and Philips Collection and the Philharmonie in Berlin.