Vladimir Felyauer graduated from the Urals State Musorgsky Conservatoire in 1992 and from the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire in 2001 (class of Nikolai Okhotnikov), where he also completed his postgraduate studies in 2004. He has worked with the St Petersburg State Capella. He has been involved in productions of the St Petersburg Conservatoire Opera and Ballet Theatre, performing bass roles in the operas Iolanta, Eugene Onegin and Le nozze di Figaro. In 2006 he joined the St Petersburg Chamber Opera Company.
In the 2010–2011 season he became a Mariinsky Theatre soloist.
Roles he has performed at the Mariinsky Theatre include:
Duda (Sadko)
the Governor (Dead Souls)
Kochubei (Mazepa)
Count Rodolfo (La sonnambula in concert)
Attila (Attila)
the King of Egypt (Aida)
Cesare Angelotti (Tosca)
His repertoire also includes: Gremin (Eugene Onegin), Pimen (Boris Godunov), Raimondo (Lucia di Lammermoor), Peter I (Pietro il Grande, zar di tutte le Russie, ossia Il falegname di Livonia), Sparafucile (Rigoletto), Dottore Grenvil (La traviata) and Count Robinson (Il matrimonio segreto).