Tenor Dmitry Korchak makes his LA Opera debut as Count Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia (December 5, 12, 19m, 2009).

Since winning an award at the Francisco Viñas International Competition in Barcelona and two awards at the Plácido Domingo's Operalia competition in Los Angeles in 2004, Dmitry Korchak has continued to delight audiences worldwide in some of the most celebrated venues, playing some of the greatest leading operatic roles and collaborating with renowned conductors and orchestras.

Dmitry Korchak was born in 1979 in Russia. After graduating from the Alexander Sveshnikov Moscow Choral College in 1997, he entered the Moscow Chorus Academy, where he studied both as a chorus master under Professor V. Popov and in the vocal department. In 2004 he terminated his post-graduate studies at the academy under assistant professor D. Vdovin.

Mr. Korchak has toured as a soloist in many countries and in some of the most prestigious venues, including the Netherlands, Germany (Kölner Philharmonie, Alte Oper Frankfurt), Austria, France (Théâtre du Châtelet), the UK (Royal Festival Hall, London) and the USA (Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall, New York). He is regularly invited to numerous Russian and International festivals such as the International Music Festival in Colmar (France), Rheingau Musikfestival (Germany), MDR Musik Sommer (Germany), Oldenburger Promenade (Germany), the annual "Vladimir Spivakov invites…" festival (Moscow), "Mozartiana" (Moscow) and the Moscow International Musical Festival "Cherry - tree wood".

Dmitry Korchak has collaborated with well known conductors as: Campanello, Cura, Domingo, Falk, Maazel, Maxim, Penderezkyi, Sondeckis, Tate, Tournier, Tsanderling, Queler, Walker, Zedda, Fedoseev, Pletniov, Popov, Spivakov, Svetlanov, Temirkanov, etc.

Recent engagements include La Sonnambula at the Rome Opera and Teatro Maestranza in Seville; Ibert's Persée et Andromeda at the Teatro Massimo di Palermo; Così fan tutte at Marseille Opera; Il Dissoluto Punito by R. Carnicer (world premiere) at the Mozart Festival in La Coruna; Die Zauberflöte at the Arena Sferisterio di Macerata; Rossini's Stabat Mater in Pesaro; Werther in Savona; Dom Sebastian at Carnegie Hall in New York; Falstaff at the Teatro San Carlo di Napoli; L'Enfant et les Sortileges in Valencia (conducted by Lorin Maazel); Rossini's Stabat Mater with Riccardo Muti in Tokyo; Die Zauberflöte at La Monnaie; L'Elisir d'Amore at the Opera Bastille; La Gazza Ladra at the Pesaro Festival; Die Zauberflöte at the Zurich Opera; Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Staatsoper Berlin and in Marseille; L'Elisir d'Amore at Covent Garden in London; La Sonnambula at Carnegie Hall; and Rossini's Stabat Mater at La Scala (conducted by Riccardo Chailly).

Future engagements include, among others: Il Viaggio a Reims and The Merry Widow at La Scala; Il Dissoluto Punito by Carnicer at the Pesaro-Festival; Don Giovanni in Israel (conducted by Zubin Mehta); L'Elisir d'Amore at the Vienna State Opera; a new production of L'Elisir d'Amore in Amsterdam; L'Elisir d'Amore at the Bavarian State Opera; a new production Eugene Onegin in Genova; La Favorita in concert at the Dresden Semper Opera; and new productions Don Giovanni and Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Toulouse.