Sergei Vasilchenko

Biography

Born in 1974 in Artemovsk (Ukraine).
From 1993-1995, he trained at the Donetsk State Music College. In 1999, he completed his studies at the Odessa State Nezhdanova Conservatoire.
From 1994-95, he sang in the chorus at the Donetsk Solovyanenko Theatre of Opera and Ballet.
From 1996-99, he was soloist at the Odessa Theatre of Opera and Ballet.
From 1997-98, he was soloist with the Odessa State Philharmonia.
In 1999, he joined Boris Pokrovsky’s Music Chamber Theatre, as soloist.
Since 2002, he has been soloist at the School for Dramatic Art Theatre.

Repertoire

Tolomeo (Handel’s Giulio Cesare)
Commendatore, Masetto (Don Giovanni)
Bartolo (Le Nozze di Figaro)
Sarastro (Die Zauberfloete)
Blansac (Rossini’s La Scala di Seta)
Herr Reich (Nicolai’s The Merry Wives of Windsor)
Betto di Signa, Pinellino (Gianni Schicchi)
Cancion (Wolf-Ferrari’s I Quattro Rusteghi)
Death, Battle, 4th Senator (Rostovskoe Miracle Play by Dimitry Rostovsky)
Gypsy (Mussorgsky’s Sorochintsy Fair)
Police Officer, Newspaper Office Clerk (Shostakovich’s The Nose)
Priest (Kravchenko’s The Tale of the Priest and of his Workman Balda)
Osip (Dashkevich’s The Government Inspector)

He took part in a recording of Valentin Dubrovsky’s opera Pilat.

He made his Bolshoi Theatre debut in 2008 as Zuniga (Carmen).