Yevgeny Akhmedov

Tenor

• Prize-winner at the III International Pavel Lisitsian Competition (Vladikavkaz, 2013, 1^st prize)
• Diploma recipient at the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition (St. Рetersburg, 2015)

Trained at the Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg Conservatory under Olga Kondina. Since 2011 he has been a soloist for the Mikhailovsky Theatre where he has sung Lensky (Eugene Onegin), the Novice (Billy Budd), the Steersman (Der fliegende Holländer), Lykov (The Tsar’s Bride), and Nemorino (L’Elisir d’amore). He was nominated for a Golden Mask National Theatre Award for Best Male Singer, Opera (2014) for his role as Lensky in Andriy Zholdak's production.

In 2014, he made his debut at the Mariinsky, appearing as Lensky in the premiere of a new production of Eugene Onegin.

Since 2015 he has been a member of the Mariinsky Opera.
During the 2016/17 season he was a fellow at Atkins Young Artists Program in Mariinsky.

Repertoire at the Mariinsky theatre:
Lensky (Eugene Onegin)
Chekalinsky (The Queen of Spades)
Alméric (Iolanta)
The Simpleton (Boris Godunov)
Berendey (The Snow Maiden)
Indian Merchant (Sadko)
Mozart (Mozart and Salieri)
Lykov (The Tsar’s Bride)
Tsarevich (Prince) Guidon (The Tale of Tsar Saltan)
The Fisherman (Le Rossignol)
Prince (The Love for Three Oranges)
Don Antonio (Betrothal in a Monastery)
Pechorin (Bela in concert)
Ferranfo (Così fan tutte)
Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni)
Tamino (Die Zauberflöte)
Count Almaviva (Il barbiere di Siviglia)
Nemorino (L'elisir d'amore)
Arturo (Lucia di Lammermoor)
Alfredo (La traviata)
Fenton (Falstaff)
Beppe (Pagliacci)
Edmond (Manon Lescaut in concert)
The Abbé de Chazeuil (Adriana Lecouvreur)
Froh (Das Rheingold)
Steersman (Der fliegende Holländer)
Hylas (Les Troyens)
Gérald (Lakmé)
Pilgrim (Christopher Columbus in concert)
tenor solo in Stravinsky’s Les noces, Pulcinella, Rachmaninoff’s The Bells

Repertoire also includes: Edmondo (Manon Lescaut), Beppe (Pagliacci), Chekalinsky (The Queen of Spades), the Novice (Billy Budd), the tenor roles in Mozart’s Requiem and Britten’s Spring Symphony.

Yevgeny Akhmedov has toured in China, Finland, France, Scotland, England, Italy and Germany.