Mariinsky Theatre Guest Soloist
• Honoured Artist of Russia (2006)
Oleg Videman was born in 1966 in Alma-Ata (today Almaty), Kazakhstan. Graduated from the Glinka Novosibirsk State Conservatoire (class of Zinaida Didenko) in 2003.
During 1994–1998 he was a soloist with the Abay Kazakh Opera and Ballet Theatre (Almaty). Subsequently, for two decades, Oleg Videman worked as one of leading soloists with the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre, appearing in more than twenty principle roles.
The singer made his debut at the Mariinsky Theatre as Radamès in Aida in 2001. He worked as a soloist with the company the entire season. Since 2013 he has regularly appeared at the Mariinsky Theatre as a guest soloist.
Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre:
Bayan and Finn (Ruslan and Lyudmila)
Herman (The Queen of Spades)
The Pretender (Grigory Otrepiev) (Boris Godunov)
Prince Vasily Golitsyn (Khovanshchina)
Sadko (Sadko)
Mikhailo Tucha (The Maid of Pskov)
Prince Vsevolod (The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya)
Sergei (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk)
Pierre Bezukhov (War and Peace)
Radamès (Aida)
Otello (Verdi’s Otello, Act III, concert performance)
Heinrich Tannhäuser (Tannhäuser, excerpts from the opera, concert performance)
Don José (Carmen)
Samson (Samson et Dalila)
His repertoire also includes: Mario Cavaradossi (Tosca), Rodolfo (La bohème), Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly), Canio (Pagliacci), Vakula (Cherevichki), The Simpleton (Boris Godunov), Walter Kretschme (The Passenger by Weinberg) among others.
The singer took part in a production of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk under the baton of Mstislav Rostropovich (2000–2001, Madrid, Buenos Aires, Rome, Naples and Dijon). In 2005 he appeared in a Cherevichki production at the Teatro alla Scala. Videman also portrayed Macduff in Dmitri Tcherniakov and Teodor Currentzis’ Macbeth production in Novosibirsk and Paris (2009–2010).
On the stage of the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia he appeared as Radamès in and the Pretender (Grigory Otrepiev).
Has been nominated for Russia’s Golden Mask National Theatre Award for Best Opera Singer three times: for his Don José in 2003, for his Radamès in 2005 and for his Sergei in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk in 2007.
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