Roman Burdenko Baritone

Biography

Born in Barnaul, Russia, Roman Burdenko has won numerous prestigious singing competitions, including the Grand Prix at the Monte-Carlo Voice Masters in Monaco (2011), the First Grand Prix at the Competizione dell’Opera in Moscow (2011), the Second Grand Prix at the Régine Crespin International Singing Competition in Paris (2011), the Third Prize at the Operalia Plácido Domingo Competition in Beijing (2012), and the Second Prize at the Belvedere International Competition in Amsterdam (2013).

He performs on the world’s leading opera stages, among them La Scala in Milan, the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, the Mariinsky Theatre, the Grand Théâtre de Genève, the Arena di Verona, the Paris Opera, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam, and the Salzburg Festival.

Among the roles he has sung in recent seasons are Baron Scarpia (Tosca), Iago (Otello), Tonio (Pagliacci), Alfio (Cavalleria rusticana), Don Carlo di Vargas (La forza del destino), Rodrigo (Don Carlo), Alberich (Der Ring des Nibelungen), Giorgio Germont (La traviata), Jack Rance (La fanciulla del West), Amonasro (Aida), Count Tomsky (The Queen of Spades), Enrico Ashton (Lucia di Lammermoor), Barnaba (La Gioconda), and the title roles in Rigoletto, Nabucco and Macbeth.

Last season, he performed Baron Scarpia at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, the title role in Macbeth at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Tonio at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, and Michele (Il tabarro) at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste.

During the 2025–2026 season, his engagements notably include the title role in Macbeth at the Opernhaus Zürich, Carlo Gérard (Andrea Chénier) at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Count Tomsky (The Queen of Spades) and Iago at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie, and Giorgio Germont at the Paris Opera.

At the Paris Opera: Tosca (Baron Scarpia), 2022; Rigoletto (title role), 2024; Il trittico (Michele), 2025.

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