Vladimir Viktorovich Baykov |

Vladimir Baykov

Laureate of international competitions, laureate of the Irina Arkhipova Foundation Prize. Graduated from the Russian University of Chemical Technology named after D. I. Mendeleev (Department of Cybernetics with honors and postgraduate studies) and the Moscow State Conservatory named after P. I. Tchaikovsky (Department of solo singing and postgraduate studies) in the class of Professor Pyotr Skusnichenko.

Laureate of competitions named after Miriam Helin (Helsinki), Maria Callas (Athens), Queen Sonja (Oslo), Queen Elizabeth (Brussels), Georgy Sviridov (Kursk).

From 1998 to 2001 he was a soloist with the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Musical Theatre. He also sang at opera houses in Vienna (Teatr an der Wien), Lisbon (Sant Carlos), London (English National Opera), Helsinki (Finnish National Opera), Barcelona (Liceu), Brussels (La Monnaie), Bonn, Warsaw (Wielkiy Theatre), Turin (Reggio), Amsterdam (Netherlands Opera), Antwerp (Vlaamsi Opera), Tel Aviv (New Israel Opera), Essen, Mannheim, Innsbruck, on the stage of the Festspielhaus in Erl (Austria), etc. .

Currently he is a soloist of the Moscow theater “New Opera”. Constantly collaborates with the Irina Arkhipova Foundation, the A. Yurlov Chapel, the Tver Academic Philharmonic.

The repertoire includes bass and baritone parts in operas by Handel, Bellini, Rossini, Donizetti, Verdi, Puccini, Mozart, Wagner, Richard Strauss, Gounod, Berlioz, Massenet, Dvorak, Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Shostakovich, Prokofiev.

Among the parts sung: Wotan (Richard Wagner’s Valkyrie), Gunter (Wagner’s Doom of the Gods), Iokanaan (Salome by Richard Strauss), Donner (Rheingold Gold by Wagner), Kotner (Wagner’s Nuremberg Meistersingers), Boris Godunov, Pimen, Varlaam (Boris Godunov), Cherevik (Mussorgsky’s Sorochinskaya Fair), Mephistopheles (Gounod’s Faust), Ruslan (Glinka’s Ruslan and Lyudmila), Prince Igor (Borodin’s Prince Igor), Vodyanoy (Dvorak’s Mermaid), Oroveso (Bellini’s Norma), Don Silva (Verdi’s Ernani), Leporello (Mozart’s Don Giovanni), Figaro, Bartolo (Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro), Aleko (Aleko) Rachmaninov), Lanciotto (“Francesca da Rimini” by Rachmaninov), Tomsky (“The Queen of Spades” by Tchaikovsky), Escamillo (“Carmen” by Bizet), Duke Bluebeard (“Castle of Duke Bluebeard” Bartok).

As an oratorio and concert singer, he performed on the stages of the Berlin, Munich, Cologne Philharmonic, Frankfurt Old Opera, Berlin Konzerthaus, Dortmund Konzerthaus, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and Musikgebouw halls, the Brussels Royal Opera, the concert halls of Lisbon, Nantes, Taipei, Tokyo, Kyoto , Takamatsu, the halls of the Moscow Conservatory, the halls of the Moscow Kremlin, the Moscow House of Music, the Glazunov Hall of the St. Petersburg Conservatory, the Saratov Conservatory, the Tver, Minsk, Kursk, Tambov, Samara Philharmonics, the Samara Opera House, concert halls of Surgut, Vladivostok, Tyumen, Tobolsk, Penza, Minsk Opera Theatre, the Tallinn Philharmonic, Tartu and Pärnu Philharmonics and many halls in Moscow. Among the performed oratorios: “The Creation of the World” by Haydn, “Elijah” by Mendelssohn (recorded on CD under the baton of G. Rozhdestvensky), Requiems by Mozart, Salieri, Verdi and Fauré, “Coronation Mass” by Mozart, “Matthew Passion” by Bach, Mass Bach Minor, Bach Cantata No. 82 for bass solo, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, Berlioz’s Romeo and Julia (Pater Lorenzo), Saint-Saens’ Christmas Oratorio, Symphony No. 14 and Shostakovich’s Suite on Words by Michelangelo, 5th Symphony by Philip Glass, “Die letzten Dinge” by Spohr (recorded on CD conducted by Bruno Weill with the West German Radio Orchestra).

Has collaborated with such conductors as Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Valery Gergiev, Paolo Carignani, Justus Franz, Gustav Kuhn, Kirill Petrenko, Vasily Sinaisky, Gianandrea Noseda, Jan Latham-Koenig, Tugan Sokhiev, Leif Segerstam, Mikko Frank, Voldemar Nelson, Kazushi Ono, Yuri Kochnev, Alexander Anisimov, Martin Brabbins, Antonello Allemandi, Yuri Bashmet, Vitaly Kataev, Alexander Rudin, Eduard Topchan, Teodor Currentzis, Saulius Sondeckis, Bruno Weil, Roman Kofman.

Among the directors are Boris Pokrovsky, Giancarlo del Monaco, Robert Carsen, Johannes Schaaf, Tony Palmer, Robert Wilson, Andrey Konchalovsky, Klaus Michael Gruber, Simon McBurney, Stephen Lawless, Carlos Wagner, Pierre Audi, Jacob Peters-Messer, Yuri Alexandrov.

The chamber repertoire includes songs and romances by Russian, German, French, Czech, Scandinavian and English composers. A special place in the chamber repertoire is occupied by the cycles of Schubert (“The Beautiful Miller’s Woman” and “The Winter Road”), Schumann (“The Poet’s Love”), Dvořák (“Gypsy Songs”), Wagner (Songs to Words by Mathilde Wesendonck), Liszt (Petrarch’s Sonnets) , Mussorgsky (“Songs and Dances of Death” and “Without the Sun”), Shostakovich (“Songs of the Jester” and “Suite to Words by Michelangelo”) and Sviridov.

In 2011-2013, he participated in the concert cycle “All Sviridov’s Chamber Vocal Works” together with People’s Artist of the USSR Vladislav Piavko and Honored Artist of Russia Elena Savelyeva (piano). Within the framework of the cycle, the vocal poems “Petersburg”, “Country of the Fathers” (together with V. Piavko; the first performance in Moscow and the first performance after 1953), the vocal cycles “Departed Russia”, “Six romances to the words of Pushkin”, “Eight romances to the words of Lermontov”, “Petersburg songs”, “Sloboda lyrics” (together with V. Piavko), “My father is a peasant” (together with V. Piavko).

Among the constant partners-pianists are Yakov Katsnelson, Dmitry Sibirtsev, Elena Savelyeva, Andrey Shibko.