About

German-American baritone Dennis Chmelensky opens his 2025/26 season workshopping The Mothers of Kherson at the Metropolitan Opera. Recent highlights include his Oper Frankfurt debut as Don Polidoro in Cimarosa’s L’Italiana in Londra, his debut at Tiroler Festspiele Erl portraying Orlik in Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa and Le Marquis de Corcy in Le Postillon de Londjumeau by Adolphe Adam, a debut at the Berliner Philharmonie with the Berliner Oratorienchor, Peter in Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel and Tom in Verdi's Un ballo in maschera at the Verbier Festival, and the title role in Mozart’s Don Giovanni with Opera Philadelphia.

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Excited to kick off my 2025/26 season at the Metropolitan Opera, workshopping the newly commissioned opera Mothers of Kherson! The opera will premiere in Warsaw in 2026/27 and at the Met in 2027/28. Can’t wait to see this story come to life! ?
In September 2024, I started teaching music at the Brüder-Grimm-Grundschule in Berlin, a high-need public school, to grades 1, 2, 3, and 6. I taught music in the classroom, started regular choir rehearsals and led weekly music workshops. In Dece
Mazeppa at Tiroler Festspiele Erl It has been so much fun to work on this beautiful, dark opera with such a fantastic team and cast here in Austria these past couple of weeks, and it was very moving to see the audiences strong response to the premi
It has been so much fun already to sing Don Polidoro in L’Italiana in Londra here @oper_frankfurt and share the stage with @mikolaj_trabka @monikambuczkowska @theolebow and @biancatognocchi, and I am so proud of all the intense work we did toge
I am super excited to make my debut @oper_frankfurt next month joining a wonderful team and cast as Don Polidoro in Domenico Cimarosas L’Italiana in Londra directed by R.B. Schlather and conducted by Julia Jones. The performances will be on Mar
“Ferne Berge seh ich glühen! Unruhvoller Wandersinn! Morgen will ich weiter ziehen, Weiß der Teufel, wohin!” (Wilhelm Busch) . . . #alpen #hiking #familytime #tirol #winter #nature #leica #dayinthelife #photography #naturephot
What a joy it has been to work on Le Postillon de Lonjumeau @tirolerfestspieleerl and bring this production to life with a wonderful team and cast led by Hans-Walter Richter and Beomseok Yi. We open on December 28th, and I can’t wait for the au
I am excited to perform music by Graun, Charpentier and Bach @berlinphil on December 17th with the @berlineroratorienchor and Concerto Brandenburg conducted by Thomas Hennig. Happy autumn, and I hope to see some of you at the Philharmonie or @tiroler
Curtis on Tour in Athens 🇬🇷 with @pallavimahidharapianist @jeankimcello @grace.takeda @emmameinrenken @joshnhalpern @mariaioud and @haesuelee. First time on tour with the family ♥️ Thank you @curtisinstitute and @schwarzfoundation for making
I am looking forward to debut @tirolerfestspieleerl as Marquis de Corcy in Le postillon de Lonjumeau by Adolphe Adam in December, and be a part of this wonderful production, team, and cast directed by Hans Walter Richter and conducted by Beomseok Yi.

Press

“Dennis Chmelensky, whom we had already enjoyed in Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera during this edition of the Festival, transcends the character of Peter. He combines the simultaneous pleasures of hot chocolate, marshmallows, and gummy bears for instant delight. His superb licorice-like tone emanates an endless aroma, tinged with tenderness and joy. An artist to watch very closely!” 

— Opera Online, Thibault Vicq

(Peter in Hänsel und Gretel / Verbier Festival)