Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus
Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus
Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus
Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus
Alexander Teliga is in the top ten basses. His voice can be heard on the best opera stages of the world.
Alexander Teliga is a graduate of the vocal faculty of the Mykola Lysenko Lviv State Conservatory where he studied under Alexander Vrabel. In 1989, he moved to Poland. From 1991 to 1998, he was a soloist of Vienna Chamber Opera, Prague State Opera, and Roma Musical Theatre in Warsaw. As a guest soloist, he has worked with the major theatres of the world, such as Teatro alla Scala (Milan), Royal Danish Opera (Copenhagen), Oper Leipzig, Dortmund Opera House, Teatro La Fenice (Venice), Teatro Comunale di Bologna. Since 2003 Alexander Teliga has been teaching at the Academy of Music in Katowice.
The artist has participated in prestigious music festivals, including the Bayreuth Festival (Germany), Opera Festival in St Margarethen (Austria), Arena di Verona Festival (Italy), Feodor Chaliapin Festival in Kazan (Russia), festivals in Carcassonne (France), Wexford (Ireland) and Chiemgau (Germany).
Teliga’s repertoire comprises bass parts in the works of national and world-famous composers: Dikoj in Kata Kabanova by Leos Janacek; Vodnik in Rusalka by Antonin Dvorak; Krusina in The Bartered Bride by Bedrich Smetana; title role, Pimen in Modest Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov; Banquo in Macbeth, Zaccaria in Nabucco, the King of Egypt, Ramfis in Aida, the Inquisitor in Don Carlos by Giuseppe Verdi; Scarpia in Tosca, Geronte di Revoir in Manon Lescaut by Giacomo Puccini; Escamillo in Georges Bizet’s Carmen; the Varangian in Sadko, the Clerk in May Night by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov; Gremin, Zaretsky in Eugene Onegin, Surin in The Queen of Spades, Thibaut d'Arc in The Maid of Orleans by Pyotr Tchaikovsky; the Englishman in The Gambler by Sergey Prokofiev; the Old Convict in Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District by Dmitri Shostakovich; the Archbishop in King Roger by Karol Szymanowski; bass parts in Verdi's Requiem, The Bells by Rachmaninov, Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater. In 2011, one of the best basses of modern times sang Tsar Dodon in a new production of The Golden Cockerel by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov at the Bolshoi Theatre.
