Considered one of the most promising voices on the international opera and concert circuit, the Austrian tenor Nikolai Schukoff started his career as a lyric voice, but has since developed towards heavier roles. He sang Don José (Carmen) and Siegfried (Götterdämmerung) at the Théâtre musical du Châtelet in Paris. He also performed Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with such prestigious orchestras and conductors as the Orchestra dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia under Gustavo Dudamel, the Orchestre de Paris under Christoph Eschenbach, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under Riccardo Chailly, the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Eschenbach and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande under Marek Janowski. Furthermore, Mahler’s Eighth Symphony at the San Sebastian Festival, Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam under Jaap van Zweden, with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eschenbach at the Lucerne and Berlin festivals and with the Orchestre de Paris under Christoph Eschenbach in Paris, followed by Siegmund in a concert version of the first act of Die Walküre at the Philharmonie in Berlin and with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Geneva. He scored his operatic successes as Sergey (Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District) at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, Parsifal and Erik (Flying Dutchman) at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Pollione (Norma) in Paris, Missa Solemnis in Lisbonne, Verdi Requiem in Washington DC, Parsifal in Dresden as well as Zemlinsky's Florentinische Tragödie in Rome.