Nikolai Kazansky

Biography

Born in Moscow. In 1996, he graduated from the actors’ faculty of Russian Academy of Theatre Art. In 2002, he graduated from the vocal faculty of the Moscow State Conservatoire (Yuri Grigoiev’s class). From 1999-2000, he was probationer and, since 2001, he was been soloist with the Bolshoi Theatre Opera Company.

Repertoire

Vyazemsky, Bomelius (Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Maid of Pskov)
Baron Douphol (La Traviata)
Afron, Polkan (Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Golden Cockerel)
Schaunard, Colline (La Boheme)
Carnival-scarecrow, Misgir, Bermyata, Second Town Crier (Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Snow Maiden)
Pantalone, King of Clubs (Prokofiev’s The Love for Thee Oranges)
Virgily (Rakhmaninov’s Francesсa da Rimini)
A Sacristan (Tosca)
Ping (Turandot)
A Company Commander (Eugene Onegin)
Narumov, Tomsky (Queen of Spades)
Ibn-Hakia, Bertrand, King Rene (Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta)
Mathias Wiessman, Inquisitor (Prokofiev’s The Fiery Angel)
Police Sergeant, Mill-hand (Shostakovich’s The Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk)
Vocal Solo (ballet Leah to music by Leonard Bernstein, Alexei Ratmansky production)
Kela (Desyatnikov’s The Children of Rosenthal)
Yakuside (Madama Batterfly)
Speaker (Die Zauberflote)
Old Footman, Metivier, Aide-de-camp, French Officer (Prokofiev’s War and Peace)
Andrei Shchelkalov, Mityusha, Nikitich (Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov)
Dancairo, Zuniga (Carmen)
Singing beggar (Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and of the Maiden Fevronia)
High Priest of Bel (Nabucco)
Second Apprentice (Wozzeck)
Frank (Die Fledermaus)
Police inspector, notary (Der Rosenkavalier)
Ivan Zhuran, Kudma (The Enchantress)
Marquis D’Obigny (La Traviata)
An arm-chair, A tree (L’enfant et les Sortilèges)
Alessio (La sonnambula)
Daland (Der fliegende Holländer)
A Monk (Don Carlo)
Malyuta Skuratov (The Tsar’s Bride)
Don Alfonso (Così fan tutte)
Bertrand (The Maid of Orleans)
The Old Robber Woman, The Second Troll, Reindeer (Banevich’s The Story of Kai and Gerda)
Count Ceprano (Rigoletto)
Don Bartolo (Le Nozze di Figaro)
Bass I (Stravinsky’s Renard in the performance The Fables of the Vixen, the Duckling and Balda)
Seargeant (Katerina Izmailova)
Don Carlos (The Stone Guest)
Brander (La Damnation de Faust)
Bosun (Britten’s Billy Budd)
Rogozhin (Weinberg’s The Idiot)
Don Pasquale (Donizetti’s Don Pasquale)
Count Tomsky/ Zlatogor (Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades)
Silvano (Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera)
Don Bartolo, Police Sergeant (Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia)
Barone di Trombonok (Rossini’s Il Viaggio a Reims)
Pangloss/ Narrator/ Martin (Bernstein’s Candide)
Prince Afanasy Vyazemsky, Bomelius, Yushko Velebin (The Maid of Pskov by Rimski-Korsakov, concert version)
Jester, Second sailor (Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tale of Tsar Saltan)
Orlik (Tchaikovsky’s Mazeppa, concert version)

Tours

Nikolai Kazansky tours in Russia and abroad. He participated in the International Pula-2000 Festival of Contemporary Music where he performed Yuri Butsko’s monoopera The Notes of a Madman.
In 2012, performed the part of Raimondo (Lucia di Lammermoor) at the Latvian National Opera. In 2018, Malyuta Skuratov (The Tsar’s Bride) at the Shanghai Grand Theatre (Bolshoi’s tour to China, conductor Tugan Sokhiev).
In March 2019, he took part in concert performances of Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera The Maid of Pskov and Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades (Bolshoi’s tour to France, conductor Tugan Sokhiev).
In 2020, he took part in concert performance of Pagliacci at the Zaryadye hall in Moscow (part of Tonio, Evgeny Svetlanov State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia, conductor Mikhail Tatarnikov).