Vyacheslav Vasilyev

• Prize-winner at the 1^st Hibla Gerzmava International Opera Singers and Accompanists Competition (Moscow, 2023; 1^st prize and two special prizes)
• Diploma recipient at the 1^st International Competition Opera Piemonte – Voices of the World (Turin, 2018)
• Prize-winner at the 5^th International B.T. Shtokolov Vocal Competition (St Petersburg, 2016; 1^st prize)
• Prize-winner at the Competition of Competitions of Vocalists of the XXIX Sobinov Musical Festival (Saratov, 2016; 2^nd prize)
• Prize-winner at the 3^rd Slovtsov International Competition for Young Opera Singers and Directors (Krasnoyarsk, 2015; 1^st prize)
• Prize-winner at the International Competition for Young Musicians Una vacanza al mare (St Petersburg, 2015; 3^rd prize)
• Diploma winner and recipient of a special prize at the 10^th Elena Obraztsova International Competition of Young Opera Singers (St Petersburg, 2015)
• Diploma recipient at the 2^nd All-Russian Music Competition (Moscow, 2014)
• Prize-winner at the 14^th International Competition of Young Performers of Russian Romance Siberian Romansiada (Tomsk, 2010; 2^nd prize)

Vyacheslav Vasilyev was born in 1989 in Krasnoyarsk Krai (Krasnoyarsk Region). Graduated from the Rimsky-Korsakov St Petersburg State Conservatory (class of Nadezhda Drozdova-Weiner) in 2017.

Was a soloist of the Opera Company at the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre from 2016 to 2023. Since April 2023 he has been a soloist with St Petersburg’s Mariinsky Opera Company and a guest soloist at the Primorsky Stage.

In 2017 Vasilyev participated in the 1^st International Eurasian Festival of High Classics in Crimea, and then in the project Academy of Young Opera Singers from Russia at the Monte Carlo Opera, where he took masterclasses from singers Roberto Alagna and José van Dam, conductor Jacques Lacombe, director and choreographer Adriano Sinivia and many others.

In 2018 the artist made his debut at St Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre, appearing as Giorgio Germont in La traviata.

In May 2019 he participated in guest performances of The Tsar’s Bride (directed by Vyacheslav Starodubtsev) at the Moscow Concert Hall Zaryadye and Mariinsky-2, portraying Grigory Gryaznoy under the baton of Valery Gergiev. In November 2019, as part of the Primorsky Stage Company, Vasilyev sang at the Buryat State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre in Ulan-Ude, appearing as Lord Henry Ashton (in a concert performance of Lucia di Lammermoor) and Grigory Gryaznoy.
In July 2021 he made his debut at the Moscow State Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre, portraying Count Tomsky in The Queen of Spades.

In October 2022 the singer performed the role of Count di Luna in Il trovatore for the first time at the Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre (Baku). In March 2023 he portrayed Macbeth at the Moscow State Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre and appeared at Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Concert Hall.

Repertoire at the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre:
Andrey Shchelkalov (Boris Godunov)
Eugene Onegin (Eugene Onegin)
Mazepa (Mazepa)
Count Tomsky, Prince Yeletsky and Zlatogor (The Queen of Spades)
Golova (Christmas Eve)
Grigory Gryaznoy (The Tsar’s Bride)
Mizgir (The Snow Maiden)
Pantalone (The Love for Three Oranges)
Napoleon (War and Peace)
Gavrila Ardalionovich Ivolgin (Smelkov’s The Idiot, concert performance)
Macbeth (Macbeth)
Giorgio Germont and Baron Douphol (La traviata)
Rodrigo (Don Carlo)
Amonasro (Aida)
Silvio (Pagliacci)
Sacristan (Tosca)
Sharpless (Madama Butterfly)
Dr Falke (Die Fledermaus)
Moralès (Carmen)

Repertoire at St Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre:
Andrey Shchelkalov (Boris Godunov; production of the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia)
Shaklovity (Khovanshchina)
Eugene Onegin (Eugene Onegin)
Mazepa (Mazepa)
Robert (Iolanta)
Prince Ivan-Korolevich (Kashchey the Immortal)
Mizgir (The Snow Maiden)
A Venetian Merchant (Sadko)
Napoleon (War and Peace)
Nabucco (Nabucco)
Dr Malatesta (Don Pasquale)
Giorgio Germont (La traviata)
Amonasro (Aida)
Monforte (I vespri siciliani)
Rodrigo (Don Carlo)
Sharpless (Madama Butterfly)
Sir Richard Forth (I puritani, chamber version)

His repertoire also includes: the title roles in Don Giovanni and Aleko, Streshnev (Khovanshchina), Escamillo (Carmen), Figaro (Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia), Valentin (Gounod’s Faust), an Unlucky Gambler (The Gambler), Marcello (La bohème), Bonze (Madama Butterfly), Brother Chartreuse and Second Mask (Betrothal in a Monastery), Matvey Wissmann (The Fiery Angel).