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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 at Vienna State Opera and under the baton of Yuri Temirkanov at Festival Verdi in Parma, 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 at Opéra de Lyon and 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: Aida at Metropilitan Opera New York; La forza del destino at Teatro alla Scala, season opening with M° Riccardo Chailly;Verdi’s Messa da Requiem at Festival Verdi Parma; Aida, La bohème, Il barbiere di Siviglia and Beethoven’s 9th Symphony at Arena di Verona; I vespri siciliani at Opernhaus Zurich; Verdi’s Messa da Requiem at Teatro alla Scala Milan conducted by Riccardo Chailly; Don Carlos and Carmen in Hamburg; Nabucco in Dresden, in Berlin and in London; Anna Bolena andMacbeth at Teatro San Carlo di Napoli.
FORTHCOMING PROJECTS:Il barbiere di Siviglia and La sonnambula at Metropolitan Opera; Nabucco and Aida at Arena di Verona; Norma in Brussels; I masnadieri, Simon Boccanegra, Macbeth at Teatro Real de Madrid; Rusalka, Nabucco, Macbeth at Vienna State Opera; Turandot at Teatro San Carlo di Napoli; Carmen at Royal Opera London; Lohengrin (Heinrich der Vogler) at Deutsche Oper Berlin; Carmen and Nabucco at Liceu de Barcelona.
