Biography
Born in Moscow in 1976, Alexander Vinogradov made his debut at the Bolshoi Theatre at the age of 21 as Oroveso (Norma). A winner of numerous competitions he has sung a
variety of roles at the Staatsoper Berlin, including Pimen (Boris Godunov), Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), Sarastro (Die Zauberfloete), Oroveso, Don Basilio
(Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Banquo (Macbeth), Timur (Turandot), Padre Guardiano (La Forza del Destino), Escamillo (Carmen), Leporello (Don
Giovanni), The Nightwatchman (Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg).
Other engagements have included The Monk (Don Carlo), Preceptor of Orestes (Elektra) and Daland (Der fliegende Hollander) at the Teatro Real (Madrid),
Salieri (Mozart and Salieri) with the Theatre du Chatelet, Truffaldino (Ariadne auf Naxos) and Colline (La Boheme) with the Opera National de
Paris, Ramfis (Aida) and Don Basilio in the Opera National de Bordeaux, Il Conte Walther (Luisa Miller) in the Teatro La Fenice (Venice),
Figaro at the Ravinia Festival (conductor Daniel Barenboim), Colline with the Royal Opera Covent Garden, Leporello at the Palau de les Arts Reina
Sofia in Valencia (conductor Lorin Maazel), Celio (The Love for Three Oranges) at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, Colline with the Santa Fe
Opera, Escamillo at the New National Theatre in Tokyo, Frere Laurent (Romeo et Juliette) at the Teatro Villamarta in Jerez (Spain).
Among the concerts there were Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with the Chicago Symphony (conductor Helmuth Rilling), Beethoven’s 9th Symphony under Daniel Barenboim, Lawrence Foster and
Myung-Whun Chung, Verdi’s Requiem with the Bayerische Rundfunk and Mariss Jansons, concerts wih the Deutsche Symphony Orchestra and Kent Nagano, London Philharmonic Orchestra and Vladimir
Jurowski.
Discography
Verdi’s Luisa Miller - Il Conte Walther, conductor Maurizio Benini, Dynamic, 2007.
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