Dennis Chmelensky

Praised for his “carrying power as well as subtle sensitivity to sound” (Philadelphia Inquirer), German-American baritone Dennis Chmelensky is a graduate of the Washington National Opera’s Cafritz Young Artist Program and an alum of the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Mikael Eliasen and Marlena Malas. This season, Dennis will make his debut as Marquis de Corcy in Le postillon de Lonjumeau by Adolphe Adam at Tiroler Festspiele Erl directed by Hans Walter Richter and conducted by Beomseok Yi. He will also join Curtis on Tour in Athens, Greece for a recital with Pallavi Mahidhara, perform music by Graun, Bach and Charpentier at the Berliner Philharmonie, and debut at Oper Frankfurt as Don Polidoro in Cimarosa’s L’Italiana in Londra under the baton of Julia Jones and directe