Igor Morosow baryton, was born in the Ukraine, studied at the famous Tchaikovsky conservatory in Moscow and immediately received a contract as leading barytone to the first opera house in the Soviet Union, the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, where he used to sing the important roles of all first performances during 15 years. He was awarded in the International Competition for Young Singers in Sofia/Bulgary. In 1991 Igor Morosow was awarded by the highest award for artists in Russia, the title "Narodni Artist Rossii". Since 1991 he has been working as a free lance singer at the leading opera houses of Western Europe and the US as well as many festivals (such as Deutsche Oper Berlin, Staatsoper unter den Linden, Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Mannheim, Stuttgart, Frankfort, Weimar, Vienna, Salzburg, Bregenz, Budapest, Palermo, Milan, Zurich, St. Gallen, Basel, Strasbourg, Montpellier, Amsterdam, Copenhaghe, Stockholm, Dublin, Houston Grand Opera, Boston Festival, Ljubljana Festival, Zagreb, Thessaloniki) in productions like. Eugene Oneghin (fantastic debut in 1991 at the Staatsoper in Vienna), as well as in concert halls as the Viennese Konzerthaus (War and Peace) or the Concertgebouw Amsterdam (Shostakovitch's" Michelangelo-Suite"). He is very demanded for the Italian repertoire (Verdi: " Rigoletto", "Simone Boccanegra", "Nabucco", "La Traviata" (Gérmont), "Il Trovatore" (Conte di Luna), "Aida" (Amonasro), "Otello" (Iago), "Un Ballo in Maschera" (Renato), "Don Carlo" (Rodrigo), "Luisa Miller" (Miller), Puccini: "Tosca"( Scarpia)," Madama Butterfly" (Sharpless), Bellini: "Beatrice di Tenda" (Filippo), Leoncavallo: "I Pagliacci" (Tonio and Silvio), Mascagni: "Cavalleria Rusticana" (Alfio), Donizetti: "Anna Bolena" (Lord Rochefort), the Italian first performance of Szymanowski's "Il Re Ruggero" (Ruggero) but also for the German (Mozart: "Don Giovanni", "Cosí fan' tutte" (Guglielmo), Max von Schillings: "Mona Lisa" (Francesco) and Russian one (Tchaikovsky: "Eugene Oneghin", "Mazeppa", "Iolantha" (Robert, Eben Haghia), "Pique Dame" (Yeletzki, Tomski), "The Maiden from Orléans" (Lionel), Prokofieff: "War and Peace" (Andrey Bolkonsky, Napoléon), "Matrimonio al'Convento" (Ferdinand), Rimski-Korsakov: "The Snow Maiden" (Msigir), Shostakovitch: "The Nose" (the leading role of Kovalyov), "Lady Macbeth of Mzensk" (Boris Ismailow). Igor Morosow has been working with conductors like Lorin Maazel, Fabio Luisi, Ferdinand Leitner, Marcello Viotti, Valery Gergiev, Yuri Simonov, Gennadi Rozhdestvenski, Boris Haikin, Pinchas Steinberg, Carlo Franci, Vladimir Fedosseyev, Ernst Märzendorfer, Jiri Kout und Anton Guadagno, stage directors like Götz Friedrich, August Everding, Klaus Guth, Pier Luigi Pier'Alli, Krzysztof Zanussi and singers Barbara Frittoli, Mara Zampieri, Ana-Maria Martinez, Noëmi Nadelmann, Edita Gruberova, Lucia Aliberti, Anna Tomova-Sintov, Elena Obraztsova, Irina Archipova, Tamara Milashkina, Nikolai Ghiaurov, Evgeni Nesterenko, Valdimir Atlantov, Vincenzo La Scola, Peter Dvorski, Neil Shicoff, Francisco Araiza, Roberto Saccà, Matti Salminen, Guiseppe Giacomini, Fabio Armiliato. It's an artistic matter of concertn to Igor Morosow to perform rare, new or a bit forgotten masterpieces such as the first performance of the cycle "Uskaya Lyra" by Arthur Lourié in Basle, the first performance of the opera "Schwarzerde" (leading role of Parnok) by Klaus Huber or arias and songs by Anton Rubinstein or Reinhold Glièr. In addition he's singing frequently cycles by Mussorgski ("Songs and Dances of Death"), Shostakovitch's 13th symphony "Babi Yar" or song cycles by Georgi Sviridov ( he also registered the first performance of the entire cycle "My Father is a Farmer" accompagned by the composer on the piano). In 2002 he was awarded by the Saint George's medal of the International Evaluation of Arts and Sciences "Golden Fortune". Woody Allens chose his interpretation of "Iago's Dream" from Verdi's 'Otello' and the duet 'Otello/Iago' with Janez Lotric for his Hollywood film 'Match Point' . Igor Morosow has registered many CDs and DVDs, among which "Beatrice di Tenda", "Nabucco", "Aida", "Il Trovatore", "Otello", "The Snow Maiden". His name is frequently also spelled "Morozov" in the English speaking countries. (see biography)