Robert Pomakov

{{short description|Canadian operatic bass (born 1981)}} '''Robert Pomakov''' (born February 25, 1981) is a Canadian [[opera]]tic [[Bass (voice type)|bass]].

Born in [[Toronto]], Ontario, Pomakov graduated from [[St. Michael's Choir School]], Toronto, in 1999. In the summer of 1999 he attended the summer conservatory program at the [[Music Academy of the West]].<ref name="MAotW alumni">{{cite web| title=Alumni Roster| url=http://www.musicacademy.org/school/alumni/alumni-roster/voice| website=musicacademy.org| accessdate=30 January 2020| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120605021001/http://www.musicacademy.org/school/alumni/alumni-roster/voice| archivedate=5 June 2012| url-status=dead}}</ref> He later studied at the [[Curtis Institute of Music]]. He performed at the inaugural [[Luminato]] festival in Toronto.<ref>[https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/luminato-gala-adds-a-winning-soprano/article17996474/ "Luminato gala adds a winning soprano"] by Robert Everett-Green, ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', 6 June 2007</ref>

Pomakov's first appeared in 2013 at the [[Metropolitan Opera]] in New York as Monterone in Verdi's ''[[Rigoletto]]''.<ref>[http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=BibSpeed/fullcit.w?xCID=354827 ''Rigoletto'' performance 28 January 2013], Metropolitan Opera archives</ref>

==Recordings== * [[George Frideric Handel|Handel]]: ''[[Apollo e Dafne (Handel)|Apollo e Dafne]]'' / ''[[The Alchemist (Handel)|The Alchemist]]'', [[Naxos Records]] * [[European Union Baroque Orchestra]] under [[Roy Goodman]]

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==External links== *[http://www.imgartists.com/?page=artist&id=491 IMG Artists biography] *[http://www.scena.org/lsm/sm5-9/pomakov-en.htm Article in Scena.org] *[http://www.naxos.com/artistinfo/1645.htm Biography], Naxos

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