Chuluunbaatar, Badral
No. 13
Voice type: Baritone/Bass-baritone
Country: Mongolia
Date of birth: 29 August, 1989
The Mongolian baritone earned both his BA and his MA at the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music in Moscow. Presently, he is a principal singer at the Military Song and Dance Ensemble of Mongolia as well as a leading soloist of the Opera and Ballet Theatre of Magnitogorsk. His repertoire mainly covers operatic roles composed by Verdi and Tchaikovsky, such Rodrigo in Don Carlos or the title role of Macbeth, Roberto in Iolanta or Prince Yeletsky in The Queen of Spades. Since 2013, he has been awarded many a prestigious competition prize, for instance first prize at the Rimsky-Korsakov International Competition of Opera Singing in 2016 in Saint Petersburg, or a year later, he came second and won the special prize of the jury at the Competizione dell’ Opera in Linz, Austria.
Competition Repertoire
Preliminary
Liszt: Lasst mich ruhen (A. H . H . Fallersleben)
Verdi: O Carlo ascolta – Rodrigo’s Aria from Don Carlos
Tchaikovsky: O Maria – Andrei’s Aria from Mazeppa
Semi-final
Tchaikovsky: Ya vas lyublyu (I love you) – Yeletsky’s Aria
from The Queen of Spades
Giordano: Nemico della Patria – Charles Gérard’s Aria
from Andrea Chénier
Final
Leoncavallo: Si puo? – Tonio’s Aria from I Pagliacci
Verdi: Pieta, rispetto, amore – Macbeth’s Lament from Macbeth
Verdi: Cortigiani, vil razza dannata – Rigoletto’s Aria from Rigoletto