Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus
Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus
Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus
Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus
Andrei Valentii graduated in trumpet from the Lev Revutsky Chernigov Music College in 1992 and sharpened up his vocal skills with Vladimir Turets and Lyubov Kryzhanovskaya. He received his degree in voice from the Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg State Conservatory (2001), where he also completed a postgraduate course under the tutelage of the People’s Artist of Russia, Professor Georgy Seleznev. In 2001, he took part in masterclasses of Vladimir Atlantov.
Still a student, he performed the following roles at the State Opera and Ballet Theatre of St. Petersburg Conservatory: King René and Bertrand in Iolanta, Gremin in Eugene Onegin by Pyotr Tchaikovsky; Don Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia by Gioachino Rossini; Sobakin in The Tsar's Bride by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov; the Old Gypsy in Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Aleko; Méphistophélès in Charles Gounod’s Faust.
Andrei Valentii has worked with a number of renowned conductors, including Alexander Vedernikov, Yuri Temirkanov, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Mstislav Rostropovich, Vladislav Chernushenko, Yuri Bashmet, Mikhail Pletnev, and others.
In 2005, after his brilliant debut as Modest Mussorgsky in The Children of Rosenthal by Leonid Desyatnikov, he became a guest soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia, where his repertoire includes over 15 roles. In October 2024, he was appointed company soloist there.
He is also a guest soloist of the Moscow State Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre, the Chuvash State Opera and Ballet Theatre and Samara State Opera and Ballet Theatre.
Andrei Valentii joined the opera company of the Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus in 2009.
His discography includes:
popular romances and songs with the National Academic Nikolai Osipov Orchestra of Folk Instruments, conductor Nikolai Kalinin;
Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 (bass part) with the University of Birmingham Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Robert Mickley
Andrei Valentii has given recitals in the philharmonic halls of Moscow and St Petersburg, the State Kremlin Palace, the RUSSIA State Central Concert Hall, etc.
In 2002, he appeared with the programme comprising Russian art songs in the Moscow International House of Music as part of a bass trio, with Boris Shtokolov and Eugene Nesterenko.
He has toured France, Germany, the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands, etc.
In 2009, he performed a solo part in Modest Mussorgsky’s oratorio Joshua and the role of Gremin in Eugene Onegin at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Italy.
Andrei Valentii’s festival appearances include, among others, Boris Godunov and The Children of Rosenthal in Finland and Boris Godunov in Slovenia in 2007, Gremin in Eugene Onegin at the Birgitta Festival in Tallinn in 2016, Prince Gudal in Anton Rubinstein’s Demon and Sobakin in The Tsar’s Bride with the festival Bard Summerscape in New York in 2018, Zaccaria in Nabucco with the Dorset Opera Festival in the UK in 2019, Banquo in Macbeth at the Paphos Aphrodite Festival in Cyprus in 2019, etc.
His other roles performed internationally include:
In 2022, Andrei Valentii performed the role of Ryhor in King Stakh’s Wild Hunt, a guest performance of the Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus on the Historic Stage of the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia.
In July 2024, as part of the company, he sang in the Gala Concert Marking the 80th Anniversary of the Liberation of Belarus from Nazi Invaders and the 45th Anniversary of the Nicaragua Revolution held at the Rubén Darío National Theatre in Managua, Nicaragua.
In October 2024, he appeared as Ryhor in the company’s guest performance of King Stakh’s Wild Hunt at the Mariinsky Theatre given as part of the Days of the City of Minsk in St Petersburg.
