Feodor Kuznetsov

Fyodor Kuznetsov - Bass

Repertoire

Feodor Kuznetsov made his Mariinsky Theatre debut in 1996 as Don Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia and became Mariinsky Theatre soloist from the same year.

Soloist with the St Petersburg State Academic Musorgsky Opera and Ballet Theatre from 1987-96.

Prize-winner at the All-Russian Vocalists´ Competition (Perm, 1987). Recipient of the St Petersburg Mayor´s Prize for Art (1994).

Born in Sverdlovsk. Graduated from the vocal faculty of the Nizhny Novgorod State Glinka Conservatoire in 1989 (class of Professor Krestinsky).

Mr. Kuznetsov toured with the Mariinsky Opera Company to Amsterdam (Concertgebouw), London (Covent Garden), Milan (La Scala), New York (Metropolitan Opera), Buenos Aires (Teatro Colon), Paris (Théâtre des Champs Elysées) and Madrid (Teatro Real de Madrid).

He performed the roles of Varlaam (Boris Godunov), Festspielhaus, Salzburg, and the Stuttgart Staatstheater), Klingsor, Titurel (Parsifal, Municipal Theatre, Santiago), Priest (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Teatro Real, Madrid, and the Prinzregent Theater, Munich) and Il Commendatore (Don Giovanni, Los Angeles Opera and Washington National Opera).
In November 2004, took part in a concert by the Baltika Kremerata conducted by Gedon Kremer at Carnegie Hall (Shostakovich´s Fourteenth Symphony).

Recordings include Boris Godunov and Betrothal in a Monastery (Philips Classics), Karoena de Zeemirmin by Bindewin Bucking and romances and poems by Shostakovich for Vox Tempory.

Mr. Kuznetsov is represented by Mr. Uri Zur

Repertoire

Mozart: *Il Commendatore* (Don Giovanni),	Russian Repertoire: Farlaf (Ruslan and Lyudmila), Boris Godunov, Pimen, Varlaam (Boris Godunov), Dosifei (Khovanshchina), Konchak (Prince Igor), Gremin (Eugene Onegin), Orlik (Mazepa), Duda (Sadko), Malyuta Skuratov (The Tsar´s Bride), Prince Yuri, Burundai (The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia), Inquisitor (The Fiery Angel), Tkachenko (Semyon Kotko), Mendoza (Betrothal in a Monastery), Prince Nikolai Bolkonsky, Marshal Davout, Bennigsen (War and Peace)
Offenbach: *Lindorf, Miracle* (Les Contes d´Hoffmann),
Verdi *Philip II, Grand Inquisitor* (Don Carlo), *the King of Egypt, Ramfis* (Aida), *Sparafucile* (Rigoletto)
Wagner: *Daland* (Der Fliegende Holländer), *Wotan, Fafner* (Das Rheingold), *Hunding* (Die Walküre) *Fafner* (Götterdämmerung) *Klingsor, Titurel* (Parsifal)

Updated Oct. 2007

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