Sergei Plyusnin

Biography

Born in 1978, in Perm. In 2005, he graduated from the Astrakhan State Conservatoire.
From 2000-2003, he was soloist at the Astrakhan State Music Theatre.
From 2003-2005, he was soloist at the Centre for Culture and the Arts of the Astrakhan Regional Department of Culture.
In 2005, he enrolled at the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre.
Since 2006, he has been a postgraduate at the vocal faculty of the Moscow Conservatoire department of solo singing.

Repertoire

At the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre he has appeared in the following roles:
Robert (Iolanta)
Dancairo, Morales (Carmen)
Title role (Eugene Onegin)

Also in his repertoire:
Marullo (Rigoletto)
Yeletsky (The Queen of Spades)
Valentin (Faust)
Silvio (Pagliacci)
chamber works by Russian and foreign composers

In 2009, he made his Bolshoi Theatre debut in the role of Robert.

Tours

In 2006, as a Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre soloist he appeared at the May Opera Evenings Festival, in Macedonia, at the I All-Russian Panorama of Music Theatres Festival, in Omsk and at the New Peredvizhnichestvo Festival in Penza region. He also appeared in Saint-Petersburg, Georgia, Azerbaijan.
In 2007, he took part in the I International Mstislav Rostropovich Festival in Baku.

Awards

He was a diploma-winner at the I International Pavel Lisitsian Competition for Baritones (2007).