Aleksey Markov
Baritone
Alexei Markov was born in Vyborg.
In 2001 he joined the Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers.
Soloist with the Mariinsky Opera since 2008. Has regularly appeared at the Mariinsky Theatre since 2006 in the lead baritone repertoire.
Alexei Markov has toured with the Mariinsky Opera to the Deutsche Oper Berlin (Germany), the Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall (New York), the Barbican (London), the Kennedy Center (Washington) and Suntory Hall (Tokyo) in addition to appearances at festivals in Rotterdam (The Netherlands), Mikkeli (Finland), Eilat (The Red Sea Festival, Israel) and Baden-Baden (Germany).
In early 2007 he made his European debuts as Count Tomsky (The Queen of Spades) at the Oper Frankfurt, Iago (Otello) at the Semperoper in Dresden and Renato (Un ballo in maschera) at the Oper Graz.
The same year, Alexei Markov gave his first performance at the Metropolitan Opera (New York) as Prince Andrei Bolkonsky (War and Peace), returning in subsequent seasons as Count Tomsky (The Queen of Spades), Andrei Shchelkalov (Boris Godunov), Valentin (Faust), the Count di Luna (Il trovatore) and Marcello (La Bohème).
From 2008-2011 Markov performed the roles of Eugene Onegin at the festival La Coruña (Spain) and in opera houses in Zurich (Switzerland), Lyon (France) and Monte Carlo (Monaco), Gryaznoi (The Tsar’s Bride) at Carnegie Hall with the New York Symphony, the Count di Luna (Il trovatore) at the Opéra National de Bordeaux (France), Robert (Iolanta) at the Salzburg Festival (Austria) and Scarpia (Tosca) at the Oper Frankfurt, as well as taking part in a recording of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony with the London Symphony Orchestra under Valery Gergiev.
Between 2011 and 2014 Alexei Markov performed the role of Fyodor Poyarok in a new production of the opera The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia at De Nationale Opera (Amsterdam), the role of Robert in a new production of the opera Iolanta at the Teatro Real in Madrid (Spain), the Duke of Nottingham (Roberto Devereux), Renato (Un ballo in maschera), Enrico Ashton (Lucia di Lammermoor) at the Zurich Opera and the Count di Luna (Il trovatore) at the Bayerische Staatsoper (Munich).
- Prize-winner at the VI International Rimsky-Korsakov Young Opera Singers’ Competition (1st prize, St Petersburg, 2004)
- Prize-winner at the All-Russian Nadezhda Obukhova Competition (2nd prize, Lipetsk, 2005)
- Prize-winner at the IV International Elena Obraztsova Young Opera Singers’ Competition (1st prize, St Petersburg, 2005)
- Prize-winner at the international Competizione dell’Opera (2nd prize, Dresden, 2006)
- Prize-winner at the International Moniuszko Competition (1st prize, Warsaw, 2007)
- Recipient of Russia’s Golden Mask theatre prize for the role of Ivan Karamazov in the opera The Brothers Karamazov (“Best Male Role in Opera”, 2009)
- Recipient of the Golden Sofit, St Petersburg’s most prestigious theatre prize, for the role of Robert in the opera Iolanta (“Best Male Role in Musical Theatre”, 2009)
