A Masked Ball
Boris Statsenko performs the role of Renato Boris Statsenko (Renato), who is also a fine old friend and idol of the public, once again impressed with his serious, deep, rich baritone, which with each passing year becomes more and more perfect.
Bernd Kraus
STATSENKO was the real star of the evening; his interpretation of the role of Count Anckarstrom was filled with deep, stirring emotionality and incredible sensitivity combined with a brilliant vocal performance. It touched the very depths of the soul.
Peter Bilzing / 12.12.2006
Andrea Chénier
Boris Statsenko performs the role of Carlo Gérard The prerequisite for creating such effects is of course the persuasiveness of the vocal gifts that Boris Statsenko possesses thanks to his richly nuanced baritone.
DER STANDARD, print edition, 20.6.2006
Thanks to Boris Statsenko, the character of Gerard assumes greater life and tragedy. The singer displays not only a varied dramatic performance, but also a rare full baritone confident-sounding in the entire range, which evoked a genuine storm of rapture
Dr. Karin Sechetleitner, APA
Everyone who might have reveled in the brilliant performance of the role of Iago in Verdi’s opera Otello is overjoyed at the news that Boris Statsenko is returning to the stage of the Graz Opera House in the role of Gerard. The performance by Boris Statsenko, who was able to humanize the character of the despot Gerard using a diverse vocal and dramatic palette, will add special luster to the production. By uniting passionate dramatic effect and enchanting middle tones, Statsenko gives such a performance that the play might as well be renamed Carlo Gerard.
Martin Gasser, Krone
Umberto Giordano’s opera Andrea Chénier gives an equally strong impression both musically and visually. The prerequisite for creating such effects is undoubtedly the persuasiveness of the vocal gifts that Boris Statsenko possesses thanks to his richly nuanced baritone.
Peter Vujica
Baritone Boris Statsenko was splendid in his performance of the multidimensional, self-flagellating former servant Carlo Gerard.
Wilhelm Hengstler
Don Carlos
Boris Statsenko performs the role of Rodrigo (…) In the person of Boris Statsenko we made the acquaintance of a splendid Verdian baritone, whose strong, manly voice possessing extraordinary pitch was the vocal ornament of the evening.
Bernd Hoppe
The Russian singer Boris Statsenko (di Posa) has a persuasive heroic baritone and gentle lyricism.
Michael-Georg Müller
Boris Statsenko performs the role of the clumsy di Posa by filling all the lyricism of his part with the strength and power of his voice.
Torsten Enge
La Bohème
Boris Statsenko performs the role of Marcello The part of the painter Marcello played by BORIS STATSENKO stands out above all from the harmonious quartet of artists. Thanks to his strong, confident-sounding baritone and fresh, natural performance, he was able to impart greater meaning to this role.
Joachim Lange
Macbeth
Boris Statsenko performs the role of Macbeth Boris Statsenko stands out amidst everyone in his performance of the role of the main hero. Vocally, he is also ruthlessly realistic.
Ingo Hoddik
The vocalism of Boris Statsenko is distinguished by extraordinary refinement in the role of Macbeth, who sings too well for a criminal of that scale.
Johannes K. Glauber
However, Boris Statsenko was a revelation in the title role. Thanks to his thrilling, full-range baritone, in his performance Macbeth appears as a man tormented by emotional anguish.
Michael Kolstadt
Boris Statsenko performs the role of Macbeth at the highest level of vocal and acting technique. One is amazed at how he expressed the emotional torments of this hero. When the hero is tortured by conscience, the singer’s voice dissolves completely while performing the monologues, and he stares before him with a frozen look. When the hero resolves to act, Statsenko displays the full beauty of his vocalism.
Rudolph Hermes
In his performance of the title role, Boris Statsenko used the full dynamic palette right from the start and gave a performance in mezzo voce and piano
Tomas Tilmann
Nabucco
Boris Statsenko performs the role of Nabucco On June 9, Greece’s Athens Opera House under the direction of Lukas Karitinos presented a new production of Giuseppe Verdi’s Nabucco to the public. Russian baritone Boris Statsenko (who had already shown himself as an authoritative performer at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste) created a vivid figure of the temperamental Nabucco, which was outstanding for quality of performance and vocal authoritativeness.
Valentina Banko
Otello
Boris Statsenko performs the role of Iago (…) Thus, most of the attention was riveted on the figure of Iago, who found an outstanding performer in every respect in the person of Siberian baritone Boris Statsenko.
B. Frakele
Boris Statsenko performs the role of the enemy Otello artistically and brilliantly, displaying a full, manly, rich baritone. How full of hatred this Iago is!
Wolfgang Wurdinger, cultural division gundl.at
Rigoletto
Boris Statsenko performs the role of Rigoletto Vocal and dramatic power made themselves felt in Boris Statsenko in the role of Rigoletto. The experiences and feelings of a “good” man who must become bad (and who sometimes arrives at this through his own impulse) moved him to pure virtuosity.
Gottfried Blumenstein
Thanks to Boris Statsenko’s persuasive vocal role and intense performance, the figure of the hero became almost Shakespearean.
Hans-Jürgen Schaefer
Along with his outstanding, flawless voice, Boris Statsenko displays enormous stage fascination in the role of Rigoletto.
Oliver Golbach
The magnificent BORIS STATSENKO stands out from everyone else in the title role. He lives this role both vocally and as an actor. (…) This is a singer whose powerful voice resounds as effortlessly as when performing quiet, gentle tones.
Ruth Eberhardt
Stiffelio
Boris Statsenko performs the role of Stankar Russian baritone Boris Statsenko, a follower of the Italian school, was outstanding in the role of Count Stankar with an expressive recitative performance and a holistic approach to the role. The diversified performance, smoothly fluid legato, and proudly displayed high notes in an aria in the third act evoked a storm of ovations from the audience.
Udo Klebes
The Barber of Seville
Boris Statsenko performs the role of Figaro (...) How could you resist the stage vitality of the figure and vocalism of Boris Statsenko as Figaro in the summer of 2003?
Marinella Mazzanti, Giovanni Pascoli Foundation
The Fiery Angel
Boris Statsenko performs the role of Ruprecht Royal Opera House Covent Garden, July 25–26, 2006.
Boris Statsenko performed brilliantly in the role of Ruprecht.
Charlie Taylor
Some acknowledged masters stand out among soloists: the magnificent baritone Boris Statsenko in the role of the ill-starred, hopelessly enamored Ruprecht.
Edward Seckerson
Boris Statsenko was magnificent in the role of Ruprecht, the would-be saviour of Renata, and Roman Muravitsky marvelously portrayed the evil Agrippa.
«The Guardian»
The Force of Destiny
Boris Statsenko performs the role of Don Carlo di Vargas Boris Statsenko (Don Carlos di Vargas) is the third in the league of superlatives, and with his splendid lyric baritone is able to perform both the role of a nobleman and the avenger of family honor. He is the only soloist who managed to cope with a difficult performance of the role against the background of the orchestra in the first act and attract the audience’s attention to his cantilena.
Dirk Altenaer
Tosca
Boris Statsenko performs the role of Baron Scarpia Russian baritone Boris Statsenko, acting as Scarpia, was never better than in this performance, because an actor can not only be gentle and seductive, but also dismal and demonic.
Axel Zibulski. Wiesbadener-kurier, 16.05.2008
The main star of the evening was Russian baritone Boris Statsenko in the role of Baron Scarpia. He splendidly portrayed the demonic prefect of the Roman police, and with his wonderful velvety timbre, he performed an exceptional musical composition.
novilist.hr
War and Peace
Boris Statsenko performs the role of Napoleon There were only a few weak spots, if you can call them that at all, in the performances of the other soloists of the huge cast of more than 60 people. Notable among the invited soloists was the world-renowned Georgian bass Paata Burchuladze, who played the role of Kutozov and displayed a voice of rare quality and acting technique of a level such that it seemed the great commander himself was on stage before the audience, as well as baritone Boris Statsenko, a former member of the Bolshoi Theater company who is currently a soloist with the Düsseldorf Opera in Germany, who played Napoleon with the virtually the same realism and flawless interpretation of the musical form.
Raymond Stalts / December 16, 2005
By alternating commanding intonations and gestures with perplexity, Boris Statsenko in the role of Napoleon conveys his hero’s horror and delight in the scale and incomprehensibility of the course of events. His Napoleon is a true emperor: he is incapable of being frightened by defeat and he is sincerely attempting to understand just what he is doing wrong, because he is convinced that everything that happens depends only on him.
Yaroslav Sedov
The gala premiere of the puppet show Don Giovanni took place in the Chemnitz Puppet Theater in a production of Heinrich Horstkotte. The musical accompaniment was provided by a recording made in the Chemnitz Opera House in 1997, with public favorite Boris Statsenko in the role of Don Giovanni.
Marianna Schultz, Freie Presse Chemnitz 15.11.2005
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