Sergey Toptygin

Sergey Toptygin was born in Moscow, graduated from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory (training course of Professor A. Loshak). He is a diploma winner of the International Vocal Competition in Moscow (1997), a Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (2007). 

Sergey Toptygin has been a soloist of Helikon-Opera since 1996. He takes a regular part in the concert programs directed by G. Rozhdestvensky. He has a wide song, oratorio and chamber repertoire. Sergey performed the part of Tamerlane in the world premiere of the opera “The Legend of the city Yelets, the Virgin Mary and Tamerlane” by A. Tchaikovsky (Yelets, 2011). He took part in the Festival “Bartok+” (Hungary), “Birgitta” (Estonia), the Festival of the Russian music in Cannes (France).

as Schlendrian in Bach’s Coffee Kantata
as Escamillo in Bizet’s Carmen
as Watersprite in Dvorak’s Russalka
as Captain in Giordano’s Siberia
as Comandor, Mazetto, Leporello in Mozart’s Don Giovanni
as Lindorf, Coppelius, Dapertutto, Miracle in Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann
as Basilio in Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia
as Frank in Strauss’s Die Fledermaus
as Amonasro in Verdi’s Aida
as Nabucco in Verdi’s Nabucco
as Falstaff in Verdi’s Falstaff
as Hollander in Wagner’s Der fliegende Hollander
as Rangoni in Moussorgsky’s Boris Godunov (D.Shostakovich edition)
as Commissar in Prokofiev’s Fallen from the Sky
as Napoleon in Prokofiev’s War and Peace
as Aleko in Rachmaninov’s Aleko
as Salieri in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Mozart and Salieri
as Griaznoy in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride
as Voice of Nikolay Chudotvorets in Rimsky-Korsakov's "Sadko"
as Boris Timofeevitch in Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk
as Zaretsky in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin
as Ibn-Khakia in Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta
as Mazeppa, Kochubey in Tchaikovsky’s Mazeppa
as Tomski in Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades
as Governor in Sergunin's Doctor Haass
as Creon in Stravinsky’s Oedipus rex
as Leandro in "The Love for Three Oranges" by S. S. Prokofiev
as Friedrich in "Das Liebesverbot" by R. Wagner
as Mandarin in "Turandot" by G. Puccini
as Salieri in "Mozart and Salieri. Requiem" by W.A. Mozart, N. Rimsky - Korsakov
as First komissar in "Les Dialogues des Carmelites” by F.Poulenc 
as Benoît, Alcindoro in "La bohème” by G. Puccini
as Barone Douphol in "La traviata” by G. Verdi
as Merinos in "Vampuka, the African Bride" by V. Ehrenberg

Solo in oratorios and chamber music:
Moussorgsky’s "Dead’s dances"
Shostakovich’s "14th Symphony"
Various chamber pieces by Schubert, Schuman, Massenet, Ravel, Glinka, Dargomyzhsky, Moussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky etc.

Solo in oratorios and chamber music:
Berlioz «L’Enfance du Christ» Hérode
Beethoven «9th Symphony»
Moussorgsky’s «Dead’s dances»
Rachmaninov’s « The Bells »
Shostakovich’s «14th Symphony»
Tchaikovsky «Moscow Cantata»
Various chamber pieces by Schubert, Schuman, Massenet, Ravel, Glinka, Dargomyzhsky, Moussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky etc.