2011 Grammy Award winner
for “Shchedrin: The Enchanted
Wanderer”, conducted by Valery Gergiev
Recipient of the Golden Mask Russian theatre prize (1996, 2003) Only Maestro
Valery Gergiev has won more Golden Masks.
Diploma-recipient of the Golden Mask, St Petersburg’s
highest theatre prize
Prize-winner at the I International Pechkovsky Competition (St Petersburg, 1994)
Repertoire includes
over thirty roles, among them:
Bayan
Ruslan and Lyudmila; Prince Vladimir Prince
Igor; Grigory Boris
Godunov; God´s Fool Boris Godunov; Indian
Merchant Sadko; Ivan
Lykov The Tsar´s Bride; Lensky Eugene
Onegin; Andrei
Mazepa; Prince Sinodal The Demon; Mikola Semyon
Kotko; Cassio
Otello; Duke of Mantua Rigoletto; Don Antonio Betrothal
in a Monastery; Don Ottavio Don Giovanni; Alfredo La
Traviata;
Froh Das Rheingold
Daland´s Steersman Der Fliegende Holländer; Rodolfo La
Boheme; Edgardo
Lucia di Lammermoor; Rinuccio Gianni Schicchi; Narraboth Salome; Pinkerton
Madama Butterfly Ismaele Nabucco |
Mr. Akimov has performed at the world’s leading theatres; among
them the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, Covent Garden and the Grand
Opéra in Paris.
Mr. Akimov has taken part in joint productions of the Mariinsky Theatre/San
Francisco Opera (Prokofiev´s Betrothal
in a Monastery)
and Mariinsky/La Scala (Musorgsky´s Boris
Godunov) in addition
to various projects with many of the world’s leading artists,
such as Giuseppe Giacomini (Otello), Plácido Domingo (Parsifal)
and Ferruccio Furlanetto (Boris
Godunov).
In 2002 at Rome´s Accademia Santa Cecilia Mr. Akimov performed
as Zinovy Borisovich in Shostakovich´s Lady Macbeth
of Mtsensk under
the baton of Mstislav Rostropovich.
In 2003 together with Maestro Gergiev, Mr. Akimov
performed the song cycle “From Jewish Folk Poetry” by
Shostakovich to open the Carnegie Hall season. Also in 2003, he took
part in the premiere of Rodion Shchedrin´s new opera “The
Enchanted Traveller”, conducted by Lorin
Maazel (Avery Fisher
Hall, New York).
In 2002-2003, he toured with the State Musical Theatre of Rostov
on Don to the UK, performing as Pinkerton (Madama
Butterfly) and
Count Almaviva (Il barbiere di Siviglia).
In 2004, Mr. Akimvo
appeared at Teatro Regio Torino as Don Antonio (Prokofiev ´s
Betrothal in a Monastery).
In September 2007, Mr. Akimov appeared with Maestro Esa-Pekka Salonen
in “Boris Godunov” at the Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles,
CA.
In 2010, Mr. Akimov performed the tenor solo in Rachmaninoff’s “Bells” with
Gewandhaus Orchestra (Leipzig, Germany). In the spring 2011,
Mr. Akimov reprised “Bells” with RTE National Symphony
Orchestra (Dublin, Ireland), made a house debuts with Dallas Opera
and Opéra de Nice as Dmitri (Pretender) “Boris Godunov”.
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Shcehedrin: Enchanted
Wanderer – (2011)
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Rachmaninoff:
The Bells, Op. 35; Symphonic Dances, Op. 45  |
Other recordings included the operas “Boris Godunov”, “Love
of Three Oranges”, and Seymon Kotko.
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