Andrei Valenty

Biography

In 1992, he completed his studies with distinction at the Chernigov L.N. Revutzsky Music College (trumpet class). From 1992-96, he studied at the Ukrainian State M.P. Dragomanov Pedagogic University (faculty of music and artistic culture, singing teacher Prof. Vladimir Turets) in Kiev. At the same time, he studied singing with Lyubov Kryzhanovskaya, teacher at the Kiev State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire. In 1996, he enrolled at the Saint-Peterburg State N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire in Professor Georgy Seleznev’s class. In 2001, he completed his studies — and in 2003, his post-graduate studies (tutor Georgy Seleznev) — at the Conservatoire. In 2001, he participated in Vladimir Atlantov’s master-classes.

From 1993-96, he was soloist in the boys’ choir at the Kiev special music boarding school for gifted children attached to the Kiev Conservatoire, and with the choir he appeared in France, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Holland and Hungary. From 1997, as a second-year student, he began to participate in performances given by the Saint-Peterburg Conservatoire State Theatre of Opera and Ballet for which company, in the course of 5 years, he sang the following roles: Bertrand, King Rene (Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta), Gremin (Eugene Onegin), Don Basilio (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Sobakin (Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride), The Old Gypsy (Rakhmaninov’s Aleko), Mephistopheles (Faust).

In 2005, he made his Bolshoi Theatre debut in part of Mussorgsky (Desyatnikov’s The Children of Rosenthal).

Repertoire at the Bolshoi

Mussorgsky, Rosenthal’s second colleague (Desyatnikov’s The Children of Rosenthal)
The High Priest of Bel (Nabucco)
Master of Ceremonies, General Beliard, Captain Rambal (Sergei Profiev’s War and Peace)
Police officer (Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov)
Surin (The Queen of Spades)
Mandarin (Turandot)
Gusli player (Rimski-Korsakov’s The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and of the Maiden Fevronia)
Sobakin (The Tsar’s Bride)

In 2009, he joined the opera company of the Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus.

His repertoire comprises Zaccaria and Gran Sacerdote (Nabucco), Timur (Turandot), Colline (La Bohème), Ramfis (Aida), Banco (Macbeth), Bartolo (Le Nozze di Figaro), Don Basilio (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Méphisto (Faust), Gremin (Eugene Onegin), Boris Godunov and Pimen (Boris Godunov), Dosifey and Khovansky (Khovanshchina), Konchak and Galitsky (Prince Igor), Old Gypsy (Rachmaninov’s Aleko), Miller (Dargomyzhski’s Rusalka), Mendoza (Prokofiev’s Betrothal in a Monastery), Surin (Pique Dame), King René and Bertrand (Iolanta), Frost (The Snow Maiden), Sobakin (The Tsar’s Bride), Varangian guest (Sadko), Salieri (Mozart and Salieri) and Guslyar (The Tale of the invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia), Daland (Der fliegende Holländer) and Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte).

Tours

He has given solo performances in France, Germany, Great Britain and Belgium. He has appeared in the Small Hall of the A.K. Glazunov Saint-Peterburg Conservatoire, in the Small and Great Halls of the Saint-Peterburg State Philharmonia, at the State Academic Capella of Saint-Peterburg, in the Great Hall of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, at the Moscow State Philharmonia, at the State Kremlin Palace, at the Rossiya Concert Hall. In 2002, he began to appear in a bass trio with Boris Stokolov and Evgeny Nesterenko. Their first joint performance was at a concert of Russian romances at the Moscow International House of Music.

His recent performances include Khovansky in the highly acclaimed production of Khovanshchina at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Academic Music Theatre in Moscow, Zaccaria/ Nabucco with the Tatar State Opera in Kazan as well as Gremin at the Birgitta Festival in Tallinn. In 2016 he toured in Netherlands with the role of Zaccaria/ Nabucco and Ramfis/ Aida.

In 2018-19, Andrey Valenty made his debut with Angers Nantes Opéra and Opéra de Rennes as King René/ Iolanta and performed Gremin/ Eugene Onegin with Opéra de Toulon. In the summer 2018 he sang the roles of Sobakin/ The Tsar’s Bride and Prince Gudal/ Rubinstein’s Demon with the festival Bard Summerscape in New York.

Discography

In 2000, he took part in a recording of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with Birmingham University Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Robert Robert Mickley. His solo disc, Popular Romances and Songs, recorded with the National Academic N.P. Osipov Orchestra of Folk Instruments, conductor Nikolai Kalinin.