Originally
from Mariupol, Ukraine, baritone Ihor Mostovoi first studied theater and
popular song before training in opera at the Schulich School of Music at McGill
University in Montreal, Canada. There he studied and performed the roles of
Achilles in Handel’s Giulio Cesare, Aeneas in Purcell’s Dido and
Aeneas, Belcore in Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’amore, Theseus in
Britten’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, Nano in the Canadian premiere of J.
Musto’s Volpone, and Falke in Strauss’s Die Fledermaus.After
graduating with a master’s degree in 2017, he joined the Opera Studio of the
Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg, with whom he performed in lyrical works
(as Fiorello in The Barber of Seville or as Masetto in Mozart’s Don
Giovanni and in concerts and oratorios. He performs the role of Count
Schopp in Offenbach’s Le Roi Carotte at the Opéra national de Lyon in
2019 and Tarquinius in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia in Singapore in
2022. In 2020, he joins the École normale de musique Alfred-Cortot in Paris,
from which he obtains the superior diploma of concert performer in 2022.In
2023 he made his U.S. debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra at Lincoln Center
in New York City in a program of contemporary creations based on Chinese poems
from the Tang Dynasty. Ihor Mostovoi received the Metropolitan Opera National
Council Auditions Encouragement Award in 2015, support from the Cercle
Richard-Wagner in 2019, and a grant from the Fondation de France in 2022.He
won the 1st prize in opera at the Marmande International Singing Competition
(2021), a special prize from the Angers Nantes Opera at the Ottavio Ziino
International Competition (2022) and was a finalist in the Génération Opéra competition in 2022.He joins the Académie de l’Opéra national de Paris
in September 2023. He played the role of Le Fauteuil in Richard Jones and
Antony McDonald's staging of Ravel's L'Enfant et les sortilèges at the
Palais Garnier, and Frank Maurrant in Street SceneS directed by Yshani
Perinpanayagam and staged by Ted Huffman at the MC93-Maison de la Culture de
Seine-Saint-Denis.