Vladimir Ognev

Biography

Born in Toguchin, Novosibirsk region. In 1994, he completed his studies at the Novosibirsk Glinka State Conservatoire (A. Zhukov's class). In 1992, he joined the Novosibirsk Theatre of Opera and Ballet as soloist. In 1993, he joined the Saint-Petersburg Opera Chamber Music Theatre. In 1996, he joined the Moscow Helikon-Opera Company. Since 2001, he has been making guest appearances with the Tartar Theatre of Opera and Ballet.

He made his Bolshoi Theatre debut in 2005. His repertoire at the Bolshoi includes:
Metivier, Marshal Berthier, Jacquot (War and Peace)
Police Officer, Mitukha (Boris Godunov)
Zuniga (Carmen)

Repertoire

Title role (Falstaff)
Don Bartolo (Il Barbiere di Siviglia)
Don Bartolo (Le Nozze di Figaro)
Boris Timofeyevich (The Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk)
Gremin (Eugene Onegin)
Tsar Dodon (The Golden Cockerel)
Galitsky (Prince Igor)
Banquo (Macbeth)
Escamillo (Carmen)
Lindorf, Miracle (Les Contes d'Hoffmann)
King Rene, Bertrand (Iolanta)
Tomsky (The Queen of Spades)
Sobakin (Tsar's Bride)
Salieri (Mozart and Salieri)
The Varangian guest (Sadko)
Nikolai Bolkonsky (War and Peace)
Varlaam (Boris Godunov)
Uberto (La serva padrona)
Polyphemus (Acis and Galatea)
Papageno (Die Zauberfloete)
Porgy (Porgy and Bess)
Georges (Pierre le Grand)
The King of Egypt (Aida)
Peter I (L’etoile du nord)

Tours

He toured with Helikon-Opera and with the Tartar Theatre of Opera and Ballet.
In 1993, at the Pacific Ocean Music Festival, in Sapporo (Japan), he participated in a performance of Leonid Bernstein’s Opening Prayer.
In 1996, at the Wexford Opera Festival (Ireland), he sang Peter I in Meyerbeer’s opera, L’etoile du nord.
In 1999, at the Spoleto Festival (Italy), he appeared as Prince Bolkonsky (War and peace).
In 2005, he took part in a production of War and peace at Opera Bastille.
In 2006, he sang the part of King of Egypt (Aida) at the Novosibirsk State Opera and Ballet Theatre (conductor Teodor Currentzis, director Dmitri Tcherniakov).

In 2006, he staged La serva padrona and sang the role of Umberto in Tyumen, Russia.
In 2007, he staged Mozart and Salieri for the Blossoming Wild Rosemary festival (Chita, Russia), and sang both roles in the production.

He has participated in the following opera recordings: L’etoile du nord (Peter I, conductor V. Jurowski, Marco Polo, 1996), War and peace (Nikolai Bolkonsky, conductor R. Hicocks, Chandos, 2000), Liturgical Canticles (I Believe by A. Arkhangelsky, conductor V. Afanasiev, Ulikom, 1993); and Romances, Russian folk songs and arias from the operas of Russian composers (1999).

He has taken part in theatre productions and has appeared in a television feature film.