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Alexander Vinogradov made his debut at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow at the age of 21. Since then he has established a remarkable career and is a regular guest at the leading opera houses in the world, including Royal Opera House Covent Garden London, Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Opéra National de Paris, Théâtre du Châtelet de Paris, Staatsoper Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Staatsoper Munich, Opernhaus Zürich, Vienna State Opera, Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Palau de les Arts de Valencia, Teatro Real de Madrid, Semperoper Dresden, New National Theatre Tokyo, Teatro Colòn de Buenos Aires, Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Teatro San Carlo di Napoli.
He works regularly with such conductors as Daniel Barenboim, Zubin Mehta, Myung-Whun Chung, Gustavo Dudamel, Valerij Gergeev, Mariss Jansons, Philippe Jordan, Vladimir Jurowski, Lorin Maazel, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Gianandrea Noseda, Sir Antonio Pappano, Vasilj Petrenko, Helmuth Rilling, Yuri Temirkanov, James Conlon, Bertrand de Billy, Fabio Luisi.
Among his many acclaimed performances we can name Roméo et Juliette (Frère Laurent) and La forza del destino (Padre Guardiano) at Teatro alla Scala; Lucia di Lammermoor (Raimondo) and Luisa Miller (conte Walter) at Metropolitan New York; Carmen (Escamillo) and The Tzar’s Bride at Royal Opera London; Faust (Méphistopélès) at Atlanta Opera; Ernani (Don Ruy Gomez) at Opéra de Monte-Carlo and at Opera Australia Sydney; Il barbiere di Siviglia (Basilio) and Die Zauberflöte (Sarastro) at Staatsoper Berlin; Macbeth (Banco), Nabucco and Simon Boccanegra at Staatsoper Hamburg, Les Vêpres siciliennes (Procida) at Palau de Les Arts de Valencia and at Opernhaus Zurich; Les Contes d’Hoffmann at Liceu de Barcelona; Don Carlo (Filippo II) in Buenos Aires, in Los Angeles, in Valencia and in Hamburg; Aida at Vienna State Opera and Teatro Real de Madrid.
He has sung the role of Escamillo in Carmen in all the world leading theatres such as Metropolitan Opera, ROH Covent Garden, Los Angeles Opera, Washington Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Arena di Verona, Staatsoper Hamburg, Opernhaus Zürich, Palau de les Arts de Valencia, Bayerische Staatsoper, Berlin Staatsoper.
On the concert platform, he has sung Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Beethoven’s IX Symphony under the batons of Daniel Barenboim, Lawrence Foster and Myung-Whun Chung, Verdi’s Messa da Requiem with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks conducted by Mariss Jansons, with Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala conducted by Daniel Barendoim and Riccardo Chailly, at Festival Verdi in Parma under the baton of Yuri Temirkanov, Shostakovich’ Symphony No. 14 with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Schostakovich’ Symphony n.13 at Opéra National de Paris and with Hamburg Symphony conducted by Kent Nagano, Mussorgskij’s Songs and Dances of Death with Danish Radio Orchestra and Yuri Temirkanov, Berlioz’ La damnation de Faust with Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester and with Gubelkian Orchestra Lisbon, Oedipus Rex and Ivan the Terrible with Orquesta Nacional de Espana.
LATEST PERFORMANCES: Simon Boccanegra with Münchner Rundfunkorchester in Munich and in Budapest; Don Carlo at National Opera Sofia; Verdi’s Messa da Requiem under the baton of M° Noseda on tour with Opernhaus Zurich in Munich and in Vienna; Nabucco and Rusalka at Vienna State Opera; I masnadieri in concerto at Teatro Real de Madrid; Don Carlo at Deutsche Oper Berlin; Norma at La Monnaie Brussels;La sonnambula and Il barbiere di Siviglia at Metropolitan Opera; La forza del destino at Teatro alla Scala, season opening with M° Chailly.
FORTHCOMING PROJECTS: Berlioz’ La damnation de Faust at Smetana Hall in Prague; Turandot at Teatro San Carlo; Nabucco and Aida at Arena di Verona; Macbeth in Hamburg and at Vienna State Opera; Carmen at Royal Opera London; Simon Boccanegra at Teatro Real de Madrid; Lohengrin (Heinrich) at Deutsche Oper Berlin; Carmen at Liceu de Barcelona and at Staatsoper Berlin; Nabucco in Barcelona and at Deutsche Oper Berlin.
