Aleksei Maslennikov (tenor)

Aleksei (Albert) Dmitryevich Maslennikov (Russian: Алексей (Альберт) Дмитриевич Масленников; September 9, 1929 – November 30, 2016) was a Russian tenor.

Maslennikov was born in Novocherkassk, Russia. In 1953 he studied at the Moscow Conservatory and in 1955 became a member of the Bolshoi Theatre where he remained into the late 1990s. His vocal style is often compared to that of the German tenor Gerhard Stolze as both men shared a likeness in singing Sprechgesang.^[1]

Repertoire at the Bolshoi Theatre

• Lensky (Evgeny Onegin by Tchaikovsky) - September 2, 1956

• Simpleton (Boris Godunov by Mussorgsky) - November 3, 1956

• Rudolfo (La Boheme by Puccini) - December 8, 1956

• Count Almaviva (Il barbiere di Siviglia by G. Rossini) - January 20, 1957

• Berendey (Snow Maiden by Rimsky-Korsakov) - February 12, 1957

• Werther (Werther by Massenet) - July 20, 1957

• Mazin (Mother by Khrennikov) - October 26, 1957

• Alfredo (La Traviata by Verdi) - January 9, 1958

• Laca Klemeň (Jenufa by Janacek) - December 6, 1958

• Otto (Bank Ban by F. Erkel) - May 3, 1959

• Vaudemont (Iolanta by Tchaikovsky) - October 16, 1959

• Anatole Kuragin (War and Peace by Prokofiev) - December 15, 1959

• Vladimir Igorevich (Prince Igor by Alexander Borodin) - January 24, 1960

• Kukushkin (The Story of a Real Man by Prokofiev) - October 8, 1960

• Schepin-Rostovsky (Decembrists by J.Shaporin) - December 26, 1960

• Faust (Faust by Gounod) - February 9, 1961

• Duke of Mantua (Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi) - May 3, 1961

• Anatoly (The Destiny of a man by I. Dzerzhinsky) - September 30, 1961

• Vladimir Gavrilov (Not Only Love by R. Shchedrin) - March 8, 1962

• Fenton (Falstaff by G. Verdi) - November 17, 1962

• Eric (Der Fliegende Holländer by Richard Wagner) - June 6, 1963

• The adjutant of Kutuzov and the voice behind the scenes (War and Peace by Prokofiev) - October 26, 1963

• Guidon (The Tale of Tsar Saltan by Rimsky-Korsakov) - December 1, 1963

• The young actor (October by V. Muradeli) - April 24, 1964

• Chekalinsky (The Queen of Spades by Tchaikovsky) - July 23, 1964

• Hindu guest (Sadko by Rimsky-Korsakov) - January 8, 1965

• Lysander (Midsummer Night's Dream by B. Britten) - December 8, 1965

• Pinkerton (Madam Butterfly by G. Puccini.) - December 1, 1966

• Klembovsky (Semyon Kotko by Prokofiev) - April 4, 1970

• Finn (Ruslan and Lyudmila by Glinka) - June 22, 1972

• Paolo (Francesca da Rimini by S. Rachmaninoff) - March 20, 1973

• Aleksei (The Gambler by Prokofiev) - April 7, 1974

• Mozart (Mozart and Salieri by Rimsky-Korsakov) - December 26, 1976

• Selifan (Dead Souls by Shchedrin) - June 7, 1977

• Cassio (Otello by Verdi) - January 24, 1978

• Don Giovanni (The Stone Guest by Dargomyzhsky) - April 30, 1978

• Golitsyn (Khovanshchina by Mussorgsky) - November 1, 1979

• Hermann (The Queen of Spades by Tchaikovsky) - April 29, 1979

• Bedraggled little man (Katerina Ismailova by Shostakovich) - December 25, 1980

• Don Jerome (Betrothal in a Monastery by Prokofiev) - December 26, 1982

• Grisha Kuterma (Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh by Rimsky-Korsakov) - December 27, 1983

Awards

• 1955 - II Prize at the world festival of youth and students in Warsaw

• 1973 - People's Artist of the RSFSR

• 1976 - Order of the October Revolution

• 1977 - Glinka State Prize of the RSFSR (for his performances in the operas "Ruslan and Lyudmila", "Boris Godunov", "War and Peace", "The Gambler").

• 1999 - Order of Honour ^[2]

Recordings

• Don Jerome in Sergei Prokofiev's Betrothal in a Monastery
• The pilot Kukushkin in Prokofiev's The Story of a Real Man dir. Mark Ermler. 1961
• Both Shuisky and the Simpleton in Modest Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov dir. Herbert von Karajan.
• Anatole Kuragin in Prokofiev's War and Peace dir. Alexander Melik-Pashayev

References

1. Умер известный оперный певец Алексей Масленников
2. Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 3 сентября 1999 года № 1155 «О награждении государственными наградами Российской Федерации»

External links

• Betrothal in a Monastery - Guardian website review