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 (Moscow – St Рetersburg, 2015)

Trained at the Rimsky-Korsakov St Petersburg Conservatory under Olga Kondina.

From 2011 to 2015 he was a soloist for the Mikhailovsky Theatre where he has sung Lensky (Eugene Onegin), the Novice (Billy Budd), the Steersman (Der fliegende Holländer), Ivan 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 Theatre, appearing as Lensky in the premiere of a new production of Eugene Onegin.

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

Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre:
Lensky (Eugene Onegin)
Chekalinsky (The Queen of Spades)
Alméric (Iolanta)
The Simpleton (Boris Godunov)
Tsar Berendey (The Snow Maiden)
An Indian Merchant (Sadko)
Mozart (Mozart and Salieri)
Ivan 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)
Métivier and Monsieur de Beausset (War and Peace)
Pechorin (Bela in concert)
Arbace (Idomeneo, re di Creta)
Ferrando (Così fan tutte)
Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni)
Tamino (Die Zauberflöte)
Count Almaviva (Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia)
Nemorino (L'elisir d'amore)
Arturo (Lucia di Lammermoor)
Alfredo Germont (La traviata)
Fenton (Falstaff)
Beppe (Pagliacci)
Edmondo (Puccini’s Manon Lescaut)
The Abbé de Chazeuil (Adriana Lecouvreur)
Froh (Das Rheingold)
Steersman (Der fliegende Holländer)
Hylas (Les Troyens)
Gérald (Lakmé)
Pilgrim (Cristoforo Colombo in concert)
Tenor solos in Stravinsky’s Les Noces, Pulcinella, Rachmaninoff’s The Bells

His repertoire also includes: the tenor roles in Mozart’s Requiem and Britten’s Spring Symphony.

Yevgeny Akhmedov has toured in China, Finland, France, Great Britain, Italy and Germany.