Oleg Balashov

Tenor

Oleg Balashov was born in Moscow. Graduated from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire in 1999 (class of Ye. Kibkalo). Soloist with The Moscow municipal New Opera theatre from 1998–1999. Mariinsky Theatre soloist since 1999.

Repertoire includes:
Bayan (Ruslan and Lyudmila)
Andrei Khovansky (Khovanshchina)
Andrei (Mazepa)
Chekalinsky (The Queen of Spades)
Vaudemont (Iolanta)
Vakula (Christmas Eve)
Vsevolod (The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia)
Elisey Bomely (The Tsar's Bride)
Oedipus (Oedipus Rex)
The Marquis (The Gambler)
Kuragin (War and Peace)
Sergei (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk)
Mitya (The Brothers Karamazov)
Edgardo, Arturo (Lucia di Lammermoor)
Alfredo (La traviata)
Don Carlo (Don Carlo)
Messenger (Aida)
Cassio (Otello)
Rodolfo (La bohème)
Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly)
Rinuccio (Gianni Schicchi)
Pong (Turandot)
Nathaniel (Les Contes d'Hoffmann)
Daland (Der Fliegende Holländer)
Loge (das Rheingold)
Siegmund (Die Walküre)
Parsifal (Parsifal)
Narraboth (Salome)
Aegisth (Elektra)
Števa (Jenůfa)

Has toured with the Mariinsky Opera Company to the world's leading theatres, among them the Metropolitan Opera (New York), Covent Garden (London), La Scala (Milan), the Teatro Real (Madrid) and the Théâtre du Châtelet (Paris). He has also toured to Berlin, Stockholm, Beijing, Tokyo, Los Angeles, Washington, Amsterdam and Rotterdam.

 

Changes to the playbill

Today Thu, 29 Jul 2010

Changes to the playbill

Information for audiences:

On 24 October, instead of the planned performance of the opera Duke Bluebeard’s Castle and an evening of piano music, at 15.00, the Mariinsky Theatre will now be staging a premiere of the opera Věc Makropulos (The Makropoulos Affair).
Tickets may be returned to the theatre’s box-offices

On 28 October, the opera Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Mariinsky Theatre will now commence at 18.00 and not at 19.00 as previously announced.
Tickets remain valid

On 29 October at the Mariinsky Theatre, instead of a recital there will be a concert performance of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera The Tsar’s Bride featuring Olga Borodina as Lyubasha.
Tickets remain valid

The performance of the ballet La Sylphide at the Mariinsky Theatre, previously planned for 30 October, has been moved to 31 October, starting at 19.00.
ickets may be returned to the theatre’s box-offices

The performance of the opera Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Mariinsky Theatre, previously planned for 31 October, has been moved to 30 October, starting at 17.00.
ickets may be returned to the theatre’s box-offices

The management would like to offer its apologies