Nikolay Didenko, bass, was born in Russia. His repertoire includes Colline in La boheme (Puccini), Alidoro in La Cenerentola, Bartolo and Don Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia,  (Rossini), Publio in La clemenza di Tito, Sarastro in Die Zauberflote, Leporello in Don Giovanni (Mozart), Oroveso in Norma (Bellini), Filippo II in Don Carlo (Verdi), Gremin in Yevgeni Onegin (Tchaikovsky) and many others. He performs at the opera houses of Cologne, Vienna, Toronto, Moscow, Bilbao, Copenhagen, Trieste, Frankfurt and many others. This is his Israeli Opera debut.