Kirill Novokhatko

Kirill was born in Rostov-on-Don (Russia) in 1991. Already at the age of eight, he made his soloist debut on the opera and musical stage. After studying piano in Rostov-on-Don, he moved to Moscow to start a batchelor program at the academy for theatre arts GITIS. In 2021, Kirill successfully graduated as opera singer and music-theatre actor.

In 2018 he joined the Helikon opera in Moscow as a soloist and appeared in productions like Offenbach's "La Belle Helene", Strauss' "Die Fledermaus", Rimsky-Korsakov's "Sadko" and Rubinstein's "Daemon". He sang the title role in Handel's opera "Orlando" under the direction of Andrew Lawrence-King during the 2018/19 and 2019/20 seasons at Helikon, and was nominated for the national "Golden Mask" award in the category of male lead role. In 2020, Kirill sang the title role in Landi's "St. Alessio", again under the direction of Lawrence-King. He refined his skills with Michael Chance, Andrew Lawrence-King, Andrew Watts, Daniel Taylor, Lynn Dawson and Deborah York.

Since 2021, Kirill pursues a master program on "baroque singing" with Andreas Scholl at Mozarteum Salzburg (Austria), where he also took part in productions of Monteverdi's "Vespro della Beata Vergine" and his opera „L'incoronazione di Poppea" in 2022. Currently, Kirill lives in Salzburg and Hamburg.