Alexei Tanovitsky

Biography

Alexei Tanovitsky was born in Minsk. He graduated from the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire. He has performed at the Mariinsky Theatre since 1999.

Repertoire

Farlaf (Ruslan and Lyudmila)
Prince Galitsky, Khan Konchak (Prince Igor)
Boris Godunov, Varlaam, Pimen (Boris Godunov)
Ivan Khovansky (Khovanshchina)
Frost (The Snow Maiden)
Ivan the Terrible (The Maid of Pskov)
The Varangian Guest (Sadko)
Tsar Saltan (The Tale of Tsar Saltan)
Burundai (The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia)
Tsar Dodon (The Golden Cockerel)
Gremin (Eugene Onegin)
Kochubei (Mazeppa)
Mamyrov, Kudma (The Enchantress)
King René (Iolanta)
Creon, Tiresias (Oedipus Rex)
King of Clubs (Love for Three Oranges)
The Inquisitor (The Fiery Angel)
Remenyuk (Semyon Kotko)
Ivan Yakovlevich (The Nose)
Boris Timofeevich (The Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk)
Inquisitor (The Brothers Karamazov)
Il Commendatore (Don Giovanni)
Don Alfonso (Così fan tutte)
Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte)
Don Basilio (Il Barbire di Siviglia)
Raimondo (Lucia di Lammermoor)
Zaccaria (Nabucco)
Banquo (Macbeth)
Sparafucile (Rigoletto)
Jacopo Fiesco (Simon Boccanegra)
Padre Guardiano (La forza del destino)
Grand Inquisitor, Filippo II (Don Carlo)
Colline (La bohème)
Timur (Turandot)
Méphistophélès (Faust)
Giacomo Balducci (Benvenuto Cellini)
Abimélech (Samson et Dalila)
Daland (Der Fliegende Holländer)
Wotan (Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried)
Hagen (Götterdämmerung)
Titurel (Parsifal)

Tours

Alexei Tanovitsky has toured with the Mariinsky Opera Company to Italy (La Scala), the UK (Royal Opera House Covent Garden), France (Théâtre du Châtelet, Opéra Bastille), Spain (Teatro Real), Portugal (the São Carlos), Finland (Turku, Helsinki, Mikkeli Festival), Japan (Suntory Hall, Bunka Kaikan), Germany (Baden-Baden Festival), Austria (Salzburg Festival), the Netherlands (Diaghilev Festival), the USA (Metropolitan Opera), Korea and China.

His operatic engagements have included:
Budapest National Opera — Banquo (Macbeth), 2002, 2004
Jewish Summer Festival, Budapest — Le Cardinal de Brogni (La Juive), 2004
Aix-en-Provence Festival (2005), Luxemburg National Opera (2005), Teatro Real in Madrid — King of Clubs (Love for Three Oranges)
Croatian National Opera — Zaccaria (Nabucco), 2006; Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), 2006; Kochubey (Mazeppa), 2010
Théâtre du Châtelet — Boris Timofeyevich (Katerina Ismailova), 2007
Teatro Lirico di Cagliari — Gremin (Eugene Onegin), 2008; Remenyuk (Semyon Kotko), 2009
Teatr Wielki Opera Narodowa — Boris Godunov (Boris Godunov), 2009
Teatro Nacional de São Carlos — Gremin (Eugene Onegin), 2010
Metropolitan opera — Monk, Grand Inquisitor (Don Carlo), 2010
Teatro Regio, Torino — Procida (I Vespri siciliani), 2011; Inquisitor (The Fiery Angel), 2012
Wiener Staatsoper — Zaccaria (Nabucco), 2011
Teatro Massimo, Palermo — Boris Godunov, 2012; Hunding (Die Walküre), 2013; Ramfis (Aida), 2013

Alexei Tanovitski is an equally engaging concert singer:
Concert Hall Finlandia-Huset, Helsinki — Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra 2003
Beijing Concert Hall — Shostakovich’s Simphony No. 14, 2008
Stavanger Konserthus — Shostakovich’s King Lear, Stavanger Symfoniorkester, 2009
Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris — Rachmaninov’s Spring and The Bells, Orchestre National de France, 2010
Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, Moscow — Wotan in concert performance of Die Walküre, Russian National Symphony Orchestra, 2010
Auditorium di Milano — Prokofiev’s oratorio Ivan the Terrible, 2010; Verdi’s Requiem, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, 2011
Salle Pleyel, Paris — Prokofiev’s oratorio Ivan the Terrible, 2010
Barbican Centre, London — Prokofiev’s oratorio Ivan the Terrible, London Symphony Orchestra, 2010; Tiresias in Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex, 2012
Royal Albert Hall, London — Rachmaninov’s Spring and The Bells, BBC Symphony Orchestra 2011
Bregenz Festival, Austria — Shostakovich’s Sonnets of Michelangelo, Das Hallé Orchestra Manchester, 2011
Enescu Festival, Bucharest — Prokofiev’s oratorio Ivan the Terrible, 2011
Salle Métropole, Laussanne — Dvorak’s Stabat Mater, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, 2011
Gewandhaus, Leipzig — Stravinsky’s Pulcinella, 2011
Salzburg Festival — Prokofiev’s Egyptian Nights, 2012
Teatro alla Scala — Prokofiev’s oratorio Ivan the Terrible, 2012
National Academy of St. Cecilia, Rome — Rachmaninov’s Spring, 2013
Bamberg Konzerthalle — Hagen in concert performance of Götterdämmerung, 2013

In 2010 Alexei Tanovitski took part in the Bolshoi Theatre project — the production of Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Maid of Pskov at the Pskov Kremlin (the part of Ivan the Terrible). In 2011 he took part in the production of Ruslan and Lyudmila, singing the part of Farlaf (conductor Vladimir Jurowski, director Dmitri Tcherniakov). In 2012 he parformed the role of Varlaam (Boris Godunov). In 2013 he took part in the production of Prince Igor, singing the role of Prince Galitsky (conductor Vassily Sinaisky, director Yuri Lyubimov).

For more information, please go to the www.tanovitski.com