Vadim Kravets

Bass

• Prize-winner at the International Elena Obraztsova Competition (St Petersburg, 2005).
• Prize-winner at the VI International Rimsky-Korsakov Young Opera Singers' Competition (1^st prize, St Petersburg, 2004).
• Prize-winner at the International Lisitsian Competition (1^st prize, Vladikavkaz, 2003).

Vadim Kravets graduated from the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire. Soloist with the Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers from 2000. Joined the Mariinsky Opera Company in 2006.

Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre:
Ruslan (Ruslan and Lyudmila)
Prince Galitsky (Prince Igor)
Mathô (Musorgsky’s Salammbô, concert performance)
Rangoni (Boris Godunov)
Kichiga (The Enchantress)
Dunois (The Maid of Orleans)
Ibn-Hakia (Iolanta)
Maslenitsa, Father Frost (The Snow Maiden)
Tsar Saltan (The Tale of Tsar Saltan)
Mstivoy (Mlada in concert)
Storm-Bogatyr (Kashchey the Immortal)
Bediay (The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia)
Tsar Dodon, Polkan (The Golden Cockerel)
Aleko (Aleko in concert)
Leandro (Love for Three Oranges)
Ruprecht (The Fiery Angel)
The Head of a Newspaper Advertisements Department (The Nose)
Tsaryov (Semyon Kotko)
The Old Robber Woman (The Story of Kai and Gerda)
Papageno (Die Zauberflöte)
Basilio (Il barbiere di Siviglia)
Mustafà (L’italiana in Algeri)
Lord Sidney (Il viaggio a Reims)
Oroveso (Norma in concert)
Raimondo (Lucia di Lammermoor)
Don Pasquale (Don Pasquale)
Attila (Attila)
Samuel (Un ballo in maschera)
Padre Guardiano (La forza del destino)
Monk (Don Carlo)
Ramfis (Aida)
Falstaff (Falstaff)
Jack Rance (La fanciulla del West)
Panthée (Les Troyens)
Escamillo (Carmen)
Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro)
Don Giovanni (Don Giovanni)
Dutchman (Der Fliegende Holländer)
Friedrich of Telramund (Lohengrin)
Fasolt (Das Rheingold)
Wanderer (Siegfried)
Gunther (Götterdämmerung)
Hans Sachs (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg)
Klingsor, Amfortas (Parsifal)
Jokanaan (Salome)
Orest (Elektra)
Barak (Die Frau ohne Schatten)
Le Comte de Saint-Bris (Les Huguenots)

The singer's concert repertoire includes romances and arias by Russian and European composers as well as the bass part in Mahler's Eighth Symphony.