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• La Boheme (Puccini)

  Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

  Jan 2024 - Feb 2024

  • Andrey Zhilikhovsky, one of today’s best young baritones, is marvellous as Marcello, sounding glorious and wonderfully moving [...].

    • Tim Ashley, The Guardian
    • 26 January 2024

  • The dominant personality here, though, is the artist Marcello, with an outstanding performance by Andrey Zhilikhovsky who commands the stage.

    • Nicholas Kenyon, The Telegraph
    • 26 January 2024

• Song Series (Rachmaninov)

  Wigmore Hall

  Jan 2024

  • Zhilikhovsky’s delivery was no less flexible. There’s an astonishing sonority to his voice that really resounds in his mid range.

    • Barry Creasy, MusicOMH
    • 18 January 2024

• Iolanta (Tchaikovsky)

  Bratislava Music Festival

  Sep 2023

  • The Moldavian baritone Andrey Zhilikhovsky was not far behind him as Robert [...] in a fiery aria and a duet with a tenorist, he attracted attention with the extraordinary qualities of his voice (he also sings on the world's leading stages), impressive timbre, elegant phrasing and impressive high position. We will be hearing a lot more about this young baritone.

    • Pavel Unger, Opera Slovakia
    • 29 September 2023

• Don Giovanni (Mozart)

  Glyndebourne Opera Festival

  May 2023

  • Giovanni is sung (and acted) by Andrey Zhilikhovsky with considerable style and gusto.

    • Barry Millington, Evening Standard
    • 22 May 2023

  • Andrey Zhilikhovsky was magnetic in the title role, hurling himself voraciously into an angry Champagne Aria, although he found tenderness for his Serenade.

    • Mark Pullinger, Bachtrack
    • 20 May 2023

  • As the titular libertine, Andrey Zhilikhovsky was commanding, conflicted and complex, charging about the stage, rampant and reckless, but finding stillness and sweetness in his serenade.

    • Claire Seymour, Opera Today
    • 21 May 2023

  • In the title role, Moldovan baritone Andrey Zhilikhovsky was firm-lined and suave in looks, voice and phrasing. ...he was a constant source of humour, expressiveness and allure. He seems to change the size and texture of his voice to his surroundings and his role: whereas his Marcello in La bohème at Covent Garden last autumn had big-scale macho force, his Giovanni, in the smaller space of Glyndebourne, sounded disarmingly intimate, often wonderfully hushed. He plants words as if directly into your ear.

    • Alastair Macaulay, Financial Times
    • 23 May 2023

  • Zhilikovsky sounds as attractive as he looks, which makes him very dangerous

    • Tim Ashley, The Guardian
    • 20 May 2023

• La boheme (Puccini)

  Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

  Oct 2022

  • She’s well matched with the scene-stealing Marcello of Andrey Zhilikhovsky, making an impressive Royal Opera debut. Is it wrong to wonder whether the most heartfelt love duet in this opera might in fact be the one for Rodolfo and his bromance buddy?

    • Erica Jeal, The Guardian
    • 16 October 2022

  • Andrey Zhilikhovsky made an outstanding Covent Garden debut with his strongly sung Marcello

    • Jim Pritchard, Seen and Heard International
    • 22 October 2022

  • As Marcello, Andrey Zhilikhovsky reveals an extremely persuasive baritone and his duet ‘O Mimì, tu più non torni’ with Flórez is outstanding as the two singers create sounds that work extremely well together

    • Sam Smith, Opera Online
    • 16 October 2022

  • Moldovan baritone Andrey Zhilikvosky, making his ROH debut, is an excellent Marcello with a voice that remains vocally solid and always focused throughout the evening. He provides such excellent support that his duet with Mimì in the third scene and the one with Rodolfo at the beginning of the fourth are among the most musically and dramatically successful moments of the evening.

    • Connessi all'Opera, Peter Dall'Aglio
    • 16 October 2022

  • Moldovan Andrey Zhilikhovsky, whose powerhouse baritone positively shook the opera house at every turn, at times overpowering his fellow performers." "Making his Covent Garden here as Marcello, this strikingly handsome young man stole many of the scenes he appeared in.

    • Mike Hardy, Opera Wire
    • 11 November 2023