Alexei Tanovitski

Bass

Award-winning Russian bass, Alexei Tanovitski, has impressed audiences the world over. Amongst his broad repertoire, which includes Ivan Khovansky (Khovanshchina), Kochubei (Mazeppa), Zaccaria (Nabucco), Padre Guardiano (La forza del destino), Hagen (Götterdämmerung), and Boris Timofeyevich (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk), he is particularly well known for his renditions of Boris Godunov (Boris Godunov) and Ivan the Terrible (The Maid of Pskov).

From his beginnings in the Mariinsky Theatre, with whom he continues to perform, Tanovitski has appeared in many of the world’s leading opera houses, including the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, Théâtre du Châtelet, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Teatro Real, Teatro Regio, Deutsche Oper and the Hungarian State Opera. At 29 years of age, Tanovitski made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. Under the direction of Maestro V. Gergiev, he performed the role of Wotan in three operas from the cycle of “Der Ring des Nibelungen” by R. Wagner. His performances on this most distinguished of stages were highly acclaimed, as evidenced by The New York Sun’s review:

In the role of Wotan was the bass Alexei Tanovitsky, who evinced great dignity and vocal control: That is the kind of Wotan we want, always. In Mr. Tanovitsky’s arsenal is a strong, almost tenorial top.

He also collaborates independently with several of the above theatres as well as many more. As such, he has worked with conductors such as V. Gergiev, M. Jurowsky, G. Noseda, Sir M. Elder, K. Nagano, G. Rozhdestvensky, P. Järvi, X. Zhang, T. Sokhiev, Y. Nezet-Seguin, E.-P. Salonen, K.-L. Wilson. He has performed in major concert halls all over the world including Auditorium di Milano, Salle Pleyel, Palau de la Música, Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, Suntory Hall, Bunka Kaikan, Hollywood Bowl, Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall. His festival performances include Aix-en-Provence, Bregenz, Diaghilev, Baden-Baden, Helsinki, Mikkeli, the White Nights and the Moscow Easter festivals.

Tanovitski’s profile was perhaps best summarized in the BBC Proms reviews after his recent performance of the Bells at the Royal Albert Hall:

Most impressive was Alexei Tanovitski, a bass who has impressed as Boris Godunov and Ivan the Terrible – his portrait, in Spring, of a husband driven almost to murder by his wife’s infidelity was painful to watch and hear, for the right reasons, his voice dark yet bell-like and clear throughout its whole range.”

Press

Alexei Tanovitski made a wonderfully comic turn as Varlaam, and Maria Matveyeva (Fyodor), Gennady Buzzubenkov (Pimen) and Andrei Ilyushnikov (Grigory) made the most of their roles.

Orange County’s news

Alexei Tanovitski, yet another bass, was Varlaam, a drunken wandering monk. Here is a young singer full of life who will be worth watching.

Los Angeles Times

In the role of Wotan was the bass Alexei Tanovitsky, who evinced great dignity and vocal control: That is the kind of Wotan we want, always. In Mr. Tanovitsky’s arsenal is a strong, almost tenorial top.

The New York Sun

With his gravelly voice and earthy delivery, the tall and calmly charismatic bass Alexei Tanovitsky sounded as if he had stepped out of a performance as Boris Godunov into the role of Wotan.

The New York Times

Die Walküre: La qualité première de cette production du Mariinsky devient évidente au deuxième acte : un travail de fond sur le texte doublé d’une lecture en profondeur mais sans chichi de la partition. Jamais je n’avais vu/entendu le dilemme de Wotan aussi bien exprimé.

Paris-Broadway

Of the leads, Alexei Tanovitsky as the god Wotan was properly dignified…

Times Square

 

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