Alexey Markov

• Recipient of the Golden Sofit, St Petersburg’s most prestigious theatre prize (2009 – for the role of Robert in a Mariinsky Theatre production of Iolanta; 2021 – for the role of Mizgir in a Mariinsky Theatre production of The Snow Maiden)
• Recipient of Russia’s Golden Mask National Theatre Award (2009; for the role of Ivan in the Mariinsky Theatre’s production of Alexander Smelkov’s opera The Brothers Karamazov)
• Prize-winner at the 6^th International Stanisław Moniuszko Vocal Competition (Warsaw, 2007; 1^st prize)
• Prize-winner at the 6^th Competizione dell’Opera (Dresden, 2006; 2^nd prize)
• Prize-winner at the 4^th Elena Obraztsova International Competition of Young Opera Singers (St Petersburg, 2005; 1^st prize)
• Prize-winner at the 1^st All-Russian Nadezhda Obukhova Young Vocalists’ Competition (Lipetsk, 2005; 2^nd prize)
• Prize-winner at the 6^th Rimsky-Korsakov International Competition for Young Opera Singers (St Petersburg, 2004; 1^st prize)

Alexey Markov was born in Vyborg in 1977. From 2001 to 2008 he was an artist with the Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers. Since 2008 he has been a soloist at the Mariinsky Theatre.

Since 2007 Alexey Markov he has been performing lead roles from the baritone repertoire at the world’s largest opera venues, among them the Metropolitan Opera, the Royal Opera House (Covent Garden), the Wiener Staatsoper, the Teatro alla Scala, the Bayerische Staatsoper, the Opéra de Paris, the Opernhaus Zürich, San Francisco Opera, Berlin’s Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Madrid’s Teatro Real, the Salzburg Festival, the Semperoper Dresden, the Grand Théâtre de Genève, the Opéra de Lyon, the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera (Warsaw), the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, the Dutch National Opera (Amsterdam), the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino festival, the Verbier Festival and the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence among others.
He has collaborated with outstanding contemporary conductors, including James Levine, Nello Santi, Gustavo Dudamel, Marco Armiliato, Daniele Gatti, Riccardo Chailly, Yuri Temirkanov, Mariss Jansons and Kirill Petrenko to name but a few.

Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre:
Macbeth (Macbeth)
Giorgio Germont (La traviata)
Count di Luna (Il trovatore)
Renato (Un ballo in maschera)
Don Carlo (La forza del destino)
Rodrigo (Don Carlo)
Amonasro (Aida)
Iago (Verdi’s Otello)
Lord Henry Ashton (Lucia di Lammermoor)
Sir Riccardo Forth (I puritani)
Alfio (Cavalleria rusticana)
Silvio (Pagliacci)
Marcello (La bohème)
Baron Scarpia (Tosca)
Michele (Il tabarro)
Michonnet (Adriana Lecouvreur)
Amfortas (Parsifal)
Chorèbe (Les Troyens)
Valentin (Gounod’s Faust)
Escamillo (Carmen)
Andrei Shchelkalov (Boris Godunov)
The Boyar Shaklovity (Khovanshchina)
Eugene Onegin (Eugene Onegin)
Lionel (The Maid of Orleans)
Prince Yeletsky, Count Tomsky and Zlatogor (The Queen of Spades)
Mizgir (The Snow Maiden)
Robert (Iolanta)
Grigory Gryaznoy (The Tsar’s Bride)
Fyodor Poyarok (The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya)
A Venetian Merchant (Sadko)
Leandro (The Love for Three Oranges)
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky (War and Peace)
Ivan (Smelkov’s The Brothers Karamazov)
Solo roles in Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem, Tchaikovsky’s cantata Moscow, Mahler’s Eighth Symphony and Rachmaninoff’s The Bells

Has sung in the premieres of the Mariinsky Theatre’s productions of Faust (2013), Les Troyens (2014), La traviata (2015), Adriana Lecouvreur (2017) and The Tsar’s Bride (2018). Took part in Mariinsky Theatre performances on tour to the Deutsche Oper Berlin, New York’s Carnegie Hall, London’s Barbican Hall, Washington’s Kennedy Center, Tokyo’s Suntory Hall and the Philharmonie de Paris and at festivals in Edinburgh, Rotterdam and Baden-Baden as well as other venues.