Vladimir Anatolievich Matorin |

Vladimir Matorin

Born and raised in Moscow. In 1974 he graduated from the famous Gnessin Institute, where his teacher was E. V. Ivanov, in the past also a bass from the Bolshoi. With love, the singer also recalls his other teachers – S. S. Sakharova, M. L. Meltzer, V. Ya. Shubina.

For more than 15 years, Matorin sang at the Moscow Academic Musical Theater named after Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko, crowning his work in this team with the performance of the part of Boris in the opera Boris Godunov by M. P. Mussorgsky (the first author’s version).

Since 1991, Matorin has been a soloist with the Bolshoi Theater of Russia, where he performs the leading bass repertoire. The artist’s repertoire includes more than 50 parts.

His performance of the part of Boris Godunov was rated as the best operatic role in the year of the anniversary of M. P. Mussorgsky. In this role, the singer performed not only in Moscow, but also at the Grand Theater (Geneva) and the Lyric Opera (Chicago).

On the stages of theaters, in the concert halls of the Moscow Conservatory, the Hall. Tchaikovsky, the Column Hall of the House of Unions, in the Moscow Kremlin and in other halls in Russia and abroad, Materin concerts are held, including sacred music, vocal lyrics by Russian and foreign composers, folk songs, old romances. Professor Matorin conducts pedagogical work, heading the vocal department at the Russian Theater Academy.

An important part of the artist’s work is concerts in Russian cities, performances on radio and television, recordings on CDs. Listeners from many countries of the world are familiar with the work of Vladimir Matorin, in which the artist sang both on theater tours and as a soloist-tourist and performer of concert programs.

Vladimir Matorin sang on the stages of theaters in Italy, France, Germany, USA, Switzerland, Spain, Ireland and other countries, participated in the Wexford Festival (1993,1995)