Tenor

Bekhzod Davrovnov

Rigoletto

Biography

Bekhzod graduated from the State Conservatory of Uzbekistan where he debuted the roles of Duca di Mantova in Verdi’s Rigoletto, Tamino in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, and the title role in Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann. He subsequently joined the Opera Studio of the Alisher Navoi Opera and Ballet Grand Academic Theater in Tashkent where he sang Young Gypsy in Rachmaninov’s Aleko and Boyar Lykov in Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar’s Bride. Bekhzod has also been a member of the ensemble at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, and won Second Prize at Operalia 2021. This is his debut with Irish National Opera. The 2024/25 season sees Bekhzod make a series of other exciting house and role debuts including Alfredo Germont in Verdi’s La traviata and Rodolfo in Puccini’s La bohème at Dallas Opera, and Sir Edgardo di Ravenswood in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor and Rodolfo in La bohème at Semperoper Dresden, before making his debut at the Salzburg Festival. Future seasons will see him make debuts at Royal Opera House, London and Opernhaus Zürich, and return to The Metropolitan Opera (New York), Bayerische Staatsoper (Munich) and Wiener Staatsoper (Vienna). Recent highlights include Cassio in Verdi’s Otello at Wiener Staatsoper (Vienna), Don Ottavio in Mozart’s Don Giovanni at Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, Prunier in Puccini’s La rondine at the Metropolitan Opera (New York), Alfredo Germont in La traviata at Santa Fe Opera, Rodolfo in La bohème at Prague State Opera and with Glyndebourne on Tour, Anatol Kuragin in Prokofiev’s War and Peace at Bayersiche Staatsoper (Munich) and Aljeja in Janáček’s The House of the Dead at the Ruhrtriennale Festival (Germany). 

November 2024