Samson Izjumov

Biography

Samsons Izjumovs received musical training at the Jazeps Medins Riga Music College and the Latvian Academy of Music, class of Prof. Guri Antipov (1974-79).

A soloist at the Latvian National Opera since 1978. Successfully participated in numerous international competitions — Alfreds Kalnins International Competition (2nd place, 1975), Georg Ots International Vocal Competition (1st place, Tallinn, 1985).
Samsons Izjumovs has collaborated with such conductors as Roman Kofman (Aleko, Amsterdam), Valery Gergiev (La Traviata, Don Carlos, Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg), Yevgeny Kolobov (Maria Stuarda, Novaya Opera in Moscow).
He has performed Mussorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death in Milan, participated at the Bregenz Festival (Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia), at the festival The Red Square Invites in Moscow, at the performance of Rachmaninov’s opera Aleko in Paris (conductor Vladimir Fedoseev), at the festivals Irina Arhipova Invites.
Appeared in the role of Germont in La Traviata in Klagenfurt (1998, 1999).
Concert performances in Latvia, Russia, Lithuania, Estonia, Germany, Poland, Holland, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain, England, Finland among other countries.
His repertoire includes large scale vocal instrumental works (among others, Requiem by Mozart, Verdi and Faure, Brahms’ German Requiem, Orff’s Carmina burana).

Repertoire at the LNO:
Demon (Rubinshtein’s The Demon)
Georges Germont (La Traviata)
Sharpless (Madama Butterfly)
Nabucco (Nabucco)
Renato (Un Ballo In Maschera)
Amonasro (Aida)
Old Convict, Boris Timofeyevich (The Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk)
Scarpia (Tosca)
Tomsky (The Queen of Spades)
Eugene Onegin (Eugene Onegin)

In 2011 he performed the role of Boris Timofeyevich Izmailov (The Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk) at the Bolshoi Theatre.

Awarded with the Three Stars order in 2010.