One of today’s most sought-after baritones, Amartusvhin Enkhbat has been praised for his “lavishly upholstered, dark and velvety, and simply enormous voice” (Bachtrack) and has appeared to wide acclaim on major operatic stages such as Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Wiener Staatsoper, Royal Opera House, Metropolitan Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Staatsoper Unter den Linden and Deutsche Oper in Berlin, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma and Arena di Verona, to name a few.
In the 2024/25 season Enkhbat will make double appearances at Teatro alla Scala, as Scarpia Tosca and Don Carlo di Vargas in Leo Muscato’s new production of La forza del destino, conducted by Riccardo Chailly, a role he later also performs at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. He will make his company debut at the San Francisco Opera with Renato Un ballo in maschera. Other engagements include Amonasro Aida in New York, Munich, Firenze and London; Carlo Gérard Andrea Chénier in Lyon and Genoa; and Giorgio Germont La traviata in Berlin. With Rigoletto, he returns to Vienna, Hamburg and Trieste. On the concert stage, Enkhbat joins the Prague Philharmonic at the Smetana Hall, as well performing solo recitals in Bilbao and Fidenza.
The previous season saw Enkhbat at the Wiener Staatsoper in the title role of Nabucco, and as Scarpia Tosca. At the Royal Opera House he appeared in Andrea Chénier and Rigoletto, and celebrated Antonio Pappano in a Gala concert. He was Giorgio Germont La traviata at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin and on tour with the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma in Japan, conducted by Michele Mariotti. He was Amonasro Aida in Verona and Salerno; Alfio and Tonio in the double bill Cavalleria rusticana / Pagliacci in Mario Martone’s new production at Teatro alla Scala; Macbeth at the Bayerische Staatsoper and Nabucco at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin.
Other recent engagements included his highly anticipated company debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York with La traviata, which was met with great critical acclaim. He has performed lead roles in the Verdian repertoire, such as Rigoletto, Simon Boccanegra, Luisa Miller, Ernani, Il trovatore, Nabucco and Macbeth, on the stages of the Teatro Regio di Parma, Arena di Verona, Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, Opéra Royal de Liège-Wallonie, Opéra de Lyon, Palau de les Arts Valencia, and the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. It is with the title role of Rigoletto that he had a breakthrough moment in his career, debuting under the baton of Nello Santi at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, and later also in Parma, a role that he has now become one of his signature roles.
Enkhbat was awarded the First Prize at the 2012 Operalia competition in Beiing, and the Second Prize at the XIV Tenor Viñas Competiton. He was a double winner at the 2011 Tchaikovsky Competition in Saint Petersburg, receiving the Second Prize and Audience Prize, and winner of the Joan Sutherland Audience Prize at the 2015 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition.
Born in Mongolia, Enkhbat started his singing career in Ulaanbaatar as a soloist at the State Academic Theatre and completed his musical studies at the Mongolian State University of Arts and Culture. It was there that he got his first taste of singing, being brought up with folk songs and urtyn duu, the traditional ‘long songs’ of Mongolia. He has been honoured as a People’s Artist in his home country and awarded the prestigious Ettore Bastianini Premio in Italy.
