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28 November 2025 |
The singer’s voice and its timbre, rare in beauty and intensity, possesses true magnetism. Another feature of Galouzine is his acting skills, temperament and particular immersion in the music being performed which enchanted the auditorium.
Roman Berchenko, Radio Mayak (“Radio Lighthouse”)
Kind, gentle and with an open and masculine face, Galouzine can affect the audience with truly murderous effect. Clearly his nature as an actor hides some duplicity, and the symbols of open sincerity become some kind of latent dark forces.
Petr Pospelov, Vedomosti (“The News”), 9 March 2007
Nothing should distract the audience’s attention from the lead character being performed by Galouzine. A magnificent singer and a stunning dramatic actor, he played the role of Dostoyevsky [Alexei in The Gambler] as if he were living his own life. Arguably, it could be said that the performance would be a success in any case if the lead part is being sung by Vladimir Galouzine who gives the finest portrayal of that character today.
Elena Chishkovskaya, Radio Kultura (“Radio Culture”), 22 June 2007
• People’s Artist of Russia (2007)
• Holder of the honorary degree Doctor Honoris Causa and the title “Tenor of the Year” (for his interpretation of Herman in The Queen of Spades), conferred by the National University of Music Bucharest and the Bucharest National Opera House (2008)
• Recipient of the Casta Diva Russian Opera Award in the category “Singer of the Year” (1999; for his interpretation of Herman in The Queen of Spades)
Vladimir Galouzine was born in Rubtsovsk, Altai Krai (Altai Region), in 1956. He graduated from the Novosibirsk State Glinka Conservatoire in 1984.
Was a soloist with the Novosibirsk Theatre of Music Comedy (1980–1988), the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre (1988–1989) and the Chamber Music Theatre (now the St Petersburg Chamber Opera) (1989–1990).
He has been a Mariinsky Theatre soloist since 1990.
Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre:
The Pretender (Grigory Otrepiev) (Boris Godunov)
Prince Andrei Khovansky and Prince Vasily Golitsyn (Khovanshchina)
Kochkarev (The Wedding)
Lensky (Eugene Onegin)
Herman (The Queen of Spades)
Vladimir Igorevich (Prince Igor)
Mikhailo Tucha (The Maid of Pskov)
Sadko (Sadko)
Grishka Kuterma and Prince Vsevolod (The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya)
Albert (The Miserly Knight)
Alexei (The Gambler)
Agrippa of Nettesheim (The Fiery Angel)
Sergei (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk)
Don Carlo (Don Carlo)
Radamès (Aida)
Otello (Verdi’s Otello)
Canio (Pagliacci)
Mario Cavaradossi (Tosca)
Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly)
The Unknown Prince (Calaf) (Turandot)
Chevalier des Grieux (Puccini’s Manon Lescaut)
Vladimir Galouzine is indisputably one of the world’s leading dramatic tenors, known for his unrivaled stentorious voice and extremely vivid characterisations of some of the most demanding roles. He sang at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala, London’s Royal Opera House (Covent Garden) and Royal Albert Hall, New York’s Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Venice’s La Fenice, the Teatro Verdi di Trieste, the Arena di Verona, the Wiener Staatsoper, the Opéra national de Paris, the Théâtre de Châtelet in Paris, the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, the Opéra municipal de Marseille, Madrid’s Teatro Real, Barcelona’s Grand Teatre del Liceu, Amsterdam’s Dutch National Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Oper Köln, the Baden-Baden Festspielhaus, the New Israeli Opera (Tel Aviv), the Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires), the New National Theatre, Tokyo, and Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre of Russia among others. In addition, the artist has performed at the Salzburg, Bregenz and Edinburgh festivals and the Chorégies d’Orange festival.
Vladimir Galouzine has collaborated with many of the world’s most important conductors including Mstislav Rostropovich, Zubin Mehta, Claudio Abbado, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Carlo Rizzi, James Conlon, Dennis Russell Davies, Marcello Viotti, and stage directors such as Franco Zeffirelli, Graham Vick, August Everding, Giancarlo del Monaco and Elijah Moshinsky.
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