Nikolay Didenko graduated from the Moscow Academy of Choral Art in both singing and conducting. He was previously a soloist of the ‘New Opera’ in Moscow and a member of the Houston Grand Opera Studio. His operatic roles include Don Geronio in Il Turco in Italia with the Royal Danish Opera, Ramfis in Aida and Oroveso in Norma at the Teatro Comunale, Trieste in La Forza del Destino and Comte des Grieux in Manon Lescaut at Cologne Opera, La Sonnambula at the Bolshoi Theatre, and Filippo II in Don Carlo as well as Leporello in Don Giovanni both with the Opera Köln. He continues to perform across the world with many significant companies including the Houston Grand Opera, and the Metropolitan Opera.