Nikolai Petrovich Okhotnikov |

Nikolai Okhotnikov

He has performed since 1962. Since 1967 he has been a soloist at the Leningrad Maly Opera and Ballet Theatre, since 1971 at the Mariinsky Theatre. Among the parties are Ivan Susanin, Melnik, Dosifey, Konchak, Basilio, Philip II and others.

Toured abroad. He sang the part of Dositheus at the Rome Opera (1992). In 1995 he performed in Birmingham (King René). At the Edinburgh Festival, he performed the part of Prince Yuri Vsevolodovich in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tale of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia.

Nikolai Okhotnikov’s supple, richly nuanced melodious bass can be heard on recordings of Russian opera made in the 1990s with Valery Gergiev: Khovanshchina, The Tale of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia, War and Peace. An excellent performer of chamber music, he participated in the recording of an anthology of Russian romances, for which he sang all the romances of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov for a low voice.

As a professor at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, Nikolai Okhotnikov passed on his skills to the younger generation of vocalists – his students continue to sing on the stage of the Mariinsky Theater – Alexander Morozov, Vladimir Felyauer, Yuri Vlasov, Vitaly Yankovsky.

Awards and Prizes

Laureate of the All-Union Glinka Vocal Competition (1st prize, 1960) Laureate of the International Tchaikovsky Competition (2nd prize, Moscow, 1966) Laureate of the International Vocal Competition in Finland (1962) Laureate of the International Vocal Competition. F. Viñas (Grand Prix and Special Prize for the performance of works by G. Verdi, Barcelona, ​​1972) People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1980) People’s Artist of the USSR (1983) USSR State Prize (1985) – for the performance of the part of Prince Gremin in the opera production “Eugene Onegin” by P. I. Tchaikovsky