Nikolai Kamensky

Biography

Studied at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire (1991–1993). From 1993–1997 he trained in Italy, including under Franco Bordoni in Bologna. Between 1997 and 1999 he was a trainee at La Scala in Milan, studying under Luigi Alva and Leila Gencer. Soloist with the Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers since 1999. Since 2008 he has been a soloist with the Mariinsky Opera Company.

Repertoire

at the Mariinsky Theatre:

Farlaf (Ruslan and Lyudmila)
Leporello (The Stone Guest)
Kichiga (The Enchantress)
Kalenik (May Night)
Non-Commissioned Police Officer, Salesman, Caretaker, Constable, Old Convict, Non-Commissioned Officer, Guard (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk)
Caretaker, Policeman (The Nose)
Baburov (Moscow, Cheryomushki)
The Procurator, Chief of Police Captain (Dead Souls)
Bartolo (Il barbiere di Siviglia)
Don Profondo (Il viaggio a Reims)
Dulcamara (L’elisir d’amore)
Don Pasquale (Don Pasquale)
Monterone (Rigoletto)
Roberto (I vespri siciliani)
Samuel (Un ballo in maschera)
Angelotti (Tosca)
Schaunard (La bohème)
José Castro (La fanciulla del West)
Balducci (Benvenuto Cellini)
Brander (La Damnation de Faust)
Panthée (Les Troyens)
Abimélech (Samson et Dalila)
Don Inigo (L’heure espagnole)
Figaro, Bartolo (Le nozze di Figaro)
Leporello (Don Giovanni)
Don Alfonso (Così fan tutte)
Truffaldino (Ariadne auf Naxos)

The singer’s repertoire also includes the bass roles in Mozart’s Requiem, Rossini’s Stabat Mater and the roles of Don Magnifico (La Cenerentola), Mathieu (Andre Chénier), Giorgio (Nina, o sia La pazza per amore) and Uberto (La serva padrona).

He has toured to La Scala (Milan) and the Teatro Real (Madrid).

The singer has appeared under conductors including Riccardo Muti, Valery Gergiev, Yuri Bashmet, Gianandrea Noseda, Sascha Goetzel, Bruno Bartoletti, Michael Güttler, Roberto Gabbiani and Rainer Schwartz.