Fedor Ataskevich (Tenor)
• Prize-winner at the International Mikhail Glinka Competition
(2005)
Born in Irkutsk. He began to study music in the boys’ chorus of
the Irkutsk Regional House of Workers of Enlightenment. In 1991 he entered the
Irkutsk Regional Culture College, specialising as a folk choral ensemble leader.
In 1994 he was called up for Russian military service. He spent his service in
the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Pacific Fleet of Russia, where he remained as
a solo vocalist from 1994 to 2002. In the spring of 2002 he was invited to join
the Khabarovsk Music Theatre. While employed there he frequently collaborated
with the Khabarovsk Philharmonic. In 2007 he was invited to join the Chelyabinsk
Opera and Ballet Theatre. Joined the Mikhailovsky Theatre in 2010.
Repertoire includes: Cavaradossi (Tosca) Alfredo (La
traviata) Lensky (Eugene Onegin) Rodolfo (La Bohème) Turiddu
(Cavalleria rusticana) Pâris (La Belle Hélène) the Prince
(Dargomyzhsky’s Rusalka) the Young Gypsy (Aleko) Mozart’s Requiem
Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly) Sinodal (The Demon) Vaudémont (Iolanta)
Lykov (The Tsar’s Bride) Lohengrin (Lohengrin) Gustavo (Un ballo in
maschera) Mister X (Die Zirkusprinzessin) Edwin (Die Csárdásfürstin)
Paul (Das Hollandweibchen) Niccolò Paganini (Niccolò Paganini)
Tassilo (Die Gräfin Mariza) Barinkay (Der Zigeunerbaron) Raoul (Das
Veilchen vom Montmartre) Alfred (Die Fledermaus) Radjami (Die Bajadere)
and Marin (The Astronomy of Love)
His extensive concert repertoire includes arias from operas by Russian and
European composers, classical romances and Russian folk songs.
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