Alexander Kuznetsov graduated from the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov
Conservatoire in 2004. He made his debut performing the principal role in
Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin in 2002. He joined the Mikhailovsky Opera in 2004,
where he performed Figaro in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, Valentin in
Gounod’s Faust, Eisenstein in Strauss’s Die Fledermaus, Edwin in Kalman’s Silva,
Onegin in Eugene Onegin, D’Artagnan in Alexander Tchaikovsky’s Les trois
mousquetaires (productions by Stanislav Gaudasinsky), Grigory Gryaznoy in
Rimsky-Korsakov’s Tsar’s Bride (production by Andrey Moguchy). He also took part
in the Russian première of Britten’s Billy Budd (Mr Redburn), staged by Willy
Decker, and in the concert performances of Bizet’s Carmen (Escamillo) under the
baton of Vasily Petrenko and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Snow Maiden (Mizgir) under the
baton of Dmitri Jurowski.
Nowadays, at the Mikhailovsky Theatre he performs leading baritone parts in
the operas by Ruggero Leoncavallo, Jacques-François-Fromental-Élie Halévy,
Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Richard Wagner, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, and
Engelbert Humperdinck.
Alexander Kuznetsov (baritone) in "Tosca" at the Mikhailovsky theatre
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