Video “Tosca” from the Mariinsky Theatre with Maria Guleghina “Tosca” Recondita amorina from the Mariinsky Theatre

Akmid Agadi
Tenor

Honored Artist of Russia.

Diploma-recipient at the All-Russian Glinka Vocalists´ Competition (1993).

Graduated from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire in 1993 (class of Professor Kibkalo). Soloist with the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre from 1993, where he performed the following roles: Bayan (Ruslan and Lyudmila), Lensky (Eugene Onegin), Mozart (Mozart and Salieri), Young Gipsy (Aleko), Don Antonio (Betrothal in a Monastery), Count Almaviva (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Nemorino (L´elisir d´amore), Harlequin (I Pagliacci), Rodolfo (La bohème), Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly), Cavaradossi (Tosca), Faust (Faust) and Alfredo (Die Fledermaus).Has participated in productions of the Bolshoi Theatre, the Amsterdam Opera, the Royal Danish Opera, the Budapest Opera, the Opéra de Strasbourg and the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, performing as Alfredo (La Traviata), the Duke (Rigoletto), Don Carlo (Don Carlo), Radames (Aida), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Calaf (Turandot) and José (Carmen).
Has taken part in opera festivals in Nizhny Novgorod, Chisinau and Saratov. In 1998 he was named best singer at the International Fyodor Chaliapin Opera Festival in Kazan. Has toured with the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre to Germany (the Lake Constance Festival in Friedrichshafen, 1993), South Korea (1997, 2003) and the USA (2002). Has performed in France, the UK, the Netherlands, Denmark, Austria, Belgium, Latvia, Argentina and Turkey.His concert repertoire includes Verdi´s Requiem, Mahler´s Eighth Symphony and Lied des Erdes, Rakhmaninov´s The Bells and Beethoven´s Missa Solemnis.

Mariinsky Theatre soloist since 2005, where he has performed the following roles: Sir Edgar Ravenswood (Lucia di Lammermoor) Radames (Aida) Rodolfo (La Boheme)Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly)José (Carmen) Verdi´s Requiem

May 31, 2007, Mr. Agadi sang the opening night Cavaradossi in “Tosca” with Ms. Maria Guleghina at the Mariinsky Theatre. This “Tosca” is a new production by renowned stage director Paul Curran and was conducted by Maestro Valery Gergiev.

In the future, Mr. Agadi will sing Robert “Iolanta” with Le Théâtre du Capitole (France).