Marat Gali

Biography

Graduated of the Moscow Conservatoire (the conducting choral faculty, 1995; the singing faculty, 1999). Participated in the master-classes of the Stuttgart International Bach Academy in Moscow (1992, 1994); took part in Nodar Andguladze’s master-classes (Georgia) and the Bernd Weikl master-classes (Austria).
From 1999-2002, he was a soloist with the Moscow State Academic Philarmonia.
Since 2002, he has been a Bolshoi Theatre soloist.

Repertoire

His Bolshoi Theatre repertoire includes the following, among other, roles:
Pong, Pang (Turandot)
Tsar Berendey, Wood Spirit (Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Snow Maiden)
L’abate di Chazeuil (Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur)
Monsieur Triquet (Eugene Onegin)
Tom Rakewell (Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress)
Malcolm (Macbeth)
Bomelius (Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride)
Jacob Glock (Prokofiev’s The Fiery Angel)
Government Official (Khovanshchina)
Mozart (Rimsky-Korsakov’s Mozart and Salieri)
Daland’s Steersman (Der Fliegende Hollaender)
Zinovy Borisovich (Shostakovich’s The Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk)
Dr. Cajus, Fenton (Falstaff)
Goro (Madama Butterfly)
Tamino (Die Zauberfloete)
The Prince (Prokofiev’s The Love for Three Oranges)
Abdallo (Nabucco)
Chekalinsky (The Queen of Spades)
Astrologer (Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Golden Cockerel)
Almerik (Iolanta)
Andres (Wozzeck)
Simpleton (Boris Godunov)
Valzacchi (Der Rosenkavalier)
Gastone (La Traviata)
Ovlur (Prince Igor)
Mephistopheles (The Fiery Angel)
Shuisky, Court Boyar/Boyar from Kromy (Boris Godunov)
Basilio (Le Nozze di Figaro)
Remendado (Carmen)
Tenor II (Stravinsky’s Renard in the performance The Fables of the Vixen, the Duckling and Balda)
Parpignol (La Boheme)
The Count of Lerma (Don Carlo)
First Troll (Banevich’s The Story of Kai and Gerda)
Zinoviy Borisovich, First labourer/ Drunken guest (Katerina Izmailova)
Laura's guest (The Stone Guest)
Dancing Master (Manon Lescaut)
Red Wiskers (Billy Budd)
Grinder (The Idiot)
The Supreme Judge, Amelia’s Servant (Un Ballo in Maschera)
Alchemist / Sultan Achmet / Crook (Candide by Bernstein)
Tenor solo in A Hero of Our Time ballet by Demutsky (Part Bela).
Tenor/ The Intendant (Nureyev ballet by Demutsky)

Also in repertoire:
Gaev (Philippe Fénelon’s Le Cerisaie)
title role (Rameau’s Pygmalion)
title role (Handel’s Serse)
Belmonte (Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail)
Count Almaviva (Il Barbiere di Siviglia)
Lensky (Eugene Onegin)
The Indian Guest (Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sadko)
Latino (Sarti’s Enea nel Lazio)

His cantata-oratorio repertoire includes: masses, cantatas, passions and other works by Bach, Handel, Haydn, Schubert, Beethoven, Mendelsohn, Schuman, Dvorak, Glass, Desyatnikov.
His chamber repertoire includes vocal works by Glinka, Tchaikovsky, Rakhmaninov, Schubert, Schuman, Shostakovich, Britten, Desyatnikov.

Tours

Takes part on a regular basis in opera and chamber music festivals: Sacro Art (Loccum, Germany, 1997); Mikhailov Festival (Cheboksari, Russia, 1999); Sobinov Festival (Saratov, Russia, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2007); Shizuoka Theatre Festival (Japan, 2001); International Theatre Olympiad (Moscow, 2001); The Sheremetiev Seasons (Moscow, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2004), Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele (2004); Gideon Kremer Festival at Sigulde (Latvia, 2005) and in Lockenhaus (Austria, 2005); International Music Festival at Le Touquet (France, 2005); Shostakovich Chamber Music Festival (Saint-Petersburg, 2006); International Chamber Art Festival (Kostomuksha, 2006); Art Festival Bosco di Ciliegi (Moscow, 2007).
In 2006, he appeared at the Maryinsky Theatre (Saint-Petersburg) in The Snow Maiden. In the same year, he sang The Prince (The Love for Three Oranges) at the Slovene National Theatre (Ljubljana), and Mozart (Mozart and Salieri) at the Teatro Massimo (Palermo, Italy). In 2007, he performed Desyatnikov’s vocal cycle Love and Life of a Poet on poems of Nikolai Oleynikov and Daniil Kharms at the Territory festival and at the Bolshoi Theatre (piano — Alexey Goribol).
In 2010, he performed the tenor part in Stravinsky’s Renard at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and Opera national de Lyon (Le Rossignol et autres fables, conductor Kazushi Ono, director Robert Lepage).
In 2011, took part in Shostakovich’s Nose (director William Kentridge) at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and Opera national de Lyon.
In 2012 he sang in a world premiere of Philippe Fénelon’s Le Cerisaie (Lionia Gaev) at the Paris national opera.
Performed the role of Bomelius in The Tsar’s Bride at the Lincoln Center Festival (in concert, conductor – Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, 2014) and at the Hong Kong Arts Festival (conductor – Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, 2015).

Discography

Haydn’s The Creation, conductor Yuri Kochnev, Boheme Music, 2001.
Sarti’s Enea nel Lazio — Latino, conductor Arcady Steinlucht, Bongiovanni, 2003.
Schlenck’s The Bard and the Prophet, conductor Timothy Mount, 2004.


Personal site: maratgali.com.