Alexey Antonov

Biography

Graduated from the Gnessins Russian Academy of Music in 2000.
In 2000–2012, and since 2016 he has been a soloist of the Novaya Opera Theatre. Among the roles performed there:
Boris Godunov, Pimen, Varlaam (Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov)
Grandfather Frost, Bermyata, Second Herald (Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Snow Maiden)
Gremin, Zaretsky (Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin)
King René (Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta)
Prince Igor, Prince of Galich (Borodin’s Prince Igor)
Ruslan (Glinka’s Ruslan and Lyudmila)
Vasily Sobakin (Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride)
Basilio (Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia)
Lord Cecil (Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda)
Claudius (Thomas’ Hamlet)
Count Monterone, Sparafucile, Warder (Verdi’s Rigoletto)
King Heinrich (Wagner’s Lohengrin)
Marke, King of Cornwall (Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde)
Salieri (O Mozart! Mozart…)
Sarastro (Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte)
Zaccaria (Verdi’s Nabucco)
Prince Gudal (Rubinstein’s The Demon)
Barone Douphol (Verdi’s La Traviata)
Loredano (Verdi’s I due Foscari)
Nourbad (Bizet’s Les pêcheurs de perles)
Palemon (Massenet’s Thais)
Colline (Puccini’s La bohème)
Count Capulet (Gounod’s Romeo et Juliette)
First SS-Man (Weinberg’s The Passenger)
Méphistophélès (Gounod’s Faust)
Raimondo (Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor)
Ramfis (Verdi’s Aida)  
Water Goblin (Dvorak’s Rusalka, in concert)
First Nazarene (Strauss’ Salome, in concert)
Sir Tristan Nickleford (Flotow’s Martha, oder der Markt zu Richmond, in concert)

In 2012–2016 he was a soloist of the Komische Oper, Berlin.
The singer has performed also in L’Opéra national de Lyon,Vlaamse Opera of Antwerp, Teatro Municipalde Santiago del Chile, Theater Bonn, Opera Wrocławska (Poland), the Latvian National Opera to name a few.

In 2019 he made his debut at the Bolshoi Theatre as Totsky (Weinberg's The Idiot).