Anton Belov, Baritone
NEWS:
Anton Belov wins Second Place in the 2008 Classical Singer Magazine Competition (professional division). The annual competition was held in Brooklyn, NY and included over 200 participants.
"A performance of great emotional honesty, singing straight from the heart."
Baritone Anton Belov’s voice has been called that of an emerging star by the Philadelphia Enquirer while the New York Times calls it rich and mellifluous. A native of Russia and a graduate of the Juilliard Opera Center, he has appeared with numerous companies and orchestras throughout the United States and has earned critical acclaim for his portrayals of characters as diverse as Count di Luna, Don Giovanni, Escamillo, Count Almaviva, Doctor Malatesta and Eugene Onegin. Equally at home with opera, oratorio and concert repertoire, Mr. Belov presented over fifty recitals throughout the States appearing at such venues as Carnegie Recital Hall in New York City and the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Mr. Belov is First Place winner of eight vocal competitions including the George London Competition, the Young Concert Artists International Competition and the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. A specialist in Russian lyric diction, he is the author of Russian Opera Libretti in Word-to-Word Translation and IPA Transcription and the Anthology of Russian Arias (Leyerle Publications 2004-06).