Vasily Gerello Opera Aria Macbeth “Pieta, Rispetto, Amore“

Vasily Gerello Василий Герелло Baritone •Honoured Artist of Russia. •Prize-winner at the BBC International Opera Singers´ Competition (Cardiff, 1993). •Prize-winner at the International Rimsky-Korsakov Young Opera Singers´ Competition (1st prize, St Petersburg, 1994). •Recipient of the Golden Sofit, St Petersburg´s highest theatre prize (1999). •Recipient of the Fortissimo music prize, founded by the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire (“Performing skills“ category). Born in Vaslovitsy in Chernovitsky Region (Ukraine). Graduated from the Leningrad State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire in 1991 (class of Professor N. Serval). Was invited to join the Kirov (Mariinsky) Opera Company while still a fourth year student in 1990. At the Mariinsky Theatre he has performed the roles of: Pastor (Khovanshchina), Shchelkalov (Boris Godunov), Onegin (Eugene Onegin), Robert (Iolanta), Tomsky, Yeletsky (The Queen of S