Nikolái Schukoff

Nikolai Schukoff is one of the leading German-speaking tenors in the world. He opened the 2023/24 season with Jim Mahoney/Mahagonny at the Dutch National Opera, sang his first Aegisth/Elektra with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, and starred as Florestan/Fidelio at the Teatro São Carlos in Lisbon. He is currently rehearsing the role of Walter in Weinberg’s Passagierin for the Teatro Real. Concerts will take Nikolai Schukoff with Mahler’s Eighth Symphony to Helsinki, with Erik/Flying Dutchman to Hong Kong under the baton of Jaap van Zweden, and on a tour with Diana Damrau through Germany.
Among his main engagements in recent seasons are his return to the Metropolitan Opera in New York with Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, his debut as Tristan at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, Parsifal at the Liceu in Barcelona and Toulouse, Herod/Salome at the Staatsoper in Berlin, Sigmund/Walküre at the Opéra de Marseille, the Tambourmajor/Wozzeck in Toulouse, the leading tenor role in the world premiere of Glanert’s Oceane at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Jim Mahoney/Mahagonny at the Aix-en-Provence festival, and Tiresias/The Bassarids at the Salzburg Festival.
Nikolai Schukoff studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, where he received the Lilly Lehman Medal. The Parsifal, in which he replaced Plácido Domingo at the Munich State Opera in 2007, marked his international breakthrough. He subsequently sang this role in many major opera houses. Other highlights include Siegmund/Walküre under the baton of Zubin Mehta in Valencia in 2013 and Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera. Other important roles include Erik/Flying Dutchman (Edinburgh Festival, Munich, Hamburg, Seattle, Madrid), Florestan/Fidelio (Lyon, Edinburgh, Prague Spring), Lohengrin (Amsterdam, Mannheim, Saint-Etienne), Jim Mahoney/Mahagonny (Toulouse, Santiago, Buenos Aires), Max (Geneva, Hamburg, Paris), Oedipus Rex (Lisbon and Paris), Eléazar/La Juive (Lyon), Pedro/Tiefland (Toulouse).
In concert, Nikolai Schukoff sings, among others, Gurrelieder (Vienna/Zubin Mehta, Barcelona, Enescu Festival, Canary Festival, Shanghai, Beijing), Mahler’s Eighth (Paris/Christoph Eschenbach and Daniele Gatti, Rome/Antonio Pappano, Frankfurt/Paavo Järvi, Hamburg, Copenhagen, Prague, Valencia, Oslo, Zagreb, Orange Festival, Tokyo) or Das Lied von der Erde (Paris, Amsterdam, Lucerne Festival, London, Bregenz Festival).