Gennady Petrovich Kondratiev (Kondratiev, Gennady) |

Kondratiev, Gennady

Russian singer (bass-baritone) and director. He studied singing abroad, where he made his debut in 1860 (Navarre, the part of Assur in Rossini’s Semiramide). After 2 seasons in Tbilisi, in 1862 Kondratiev became a soloist at the Mariinsky Theater (debut as Ruslan), where he performed until 1900. He was the first performer of a number of roles in Serov’s operas. The repertoire also includes the parts of Mephistopheles, Stolnik in Moniuszko’s Pebble, Telramund in Lohengrin. Since 1, the main director of the Mariinsky Theater (carried out 1872 productions).

E. Tsodokov