Aleksey Tikhomirov was born in Kazan, graduated from the Kazan Musical College with a specialization in “Choir Conducting” (training course of V. Zakharova), the Kazan State Conservatory with a specialization in “Conductor of Academic Choir” (training course of Associate Professor L. Draznin) and the Vocal Department (training course of Professor Yu. Borisenko). Aleksey is a grant-holder of the Chaliapin Foundation of Kazan, studied in the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Singing Centre (training course of A. Belousova). He is the winner of the Galina Vishnevskaya 1st International Competition of Opera Actors (Moscow, 2006), and the 1st Republican Competition (Kazan, 2007).
Since 2005 he has been a soloist of Helikon-Opera. In 2009 he made his debut in the Rome Opera as Agamemnon (“Iphigenia in Aulis”) directed by R. Muti. In 2010 he made his debut in the Bolshoi Theatre as Sarastro (“Die Zauberflöte” by W. A. Mozart), appeared on the stages of the Israeli National Opera, the Reggio Emilia Theatre (Italy), the Opera de Massy (France), the Bellini Theater (Italy), the Sofia National Opera (Bulgaria), the Mikhailovsky Theatre (Saint-Petersburg), the Walloon Royal Opera (Belgium), the Lyon Opera (France), the Queensland Royal Opera (Australia), the Santiago Opera (Chile). He took part in the projects “The Russian Nights in Seoul” and “The Days of the Russian Culture in China”, the “Bartok+” Festival (Hungary), the Saltsburg Festival (Austria), the International Festival in Santander (Spain).
Repertoire:
as Don Pasquale in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale
as Leporello in Mozart’s Don Giovanni
as Sarastro in Mozart’s Die Zauberflote
as Rospolone in Paisiello La Molinara
as Don Basilio in Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia
as Philip II, King of Spain in Verdi’s Don Carlos
as Count Monterone, Sparafucile Verdi’s Rigoletto
as Prince Galitsky, Konchak in Borodin’s Prince Igor
as Miller in Dargomyzhsky’s Rusalka
as Ivan Susanin in Glinka’s Ivan Susanin
as Ruslan, Farlaf, Sviatozar in Glinka’s Ruslan and Ludmila
as Boris in Moussorgsky’s Boris Godunov (D. Shostakovich edition)
as Dosifey in Moussorgsky’s Khovanshchina
as Andrey Degtiarenko in Prokofiev’s Fallen from the Sky
as Kutuzov in Prokofiev’s War and Peace
as Sobakin, Maluta in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride
as Shvokhnev in Shostakovich’s The Gamblers
as Priest, Old Convict in Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
as King Rene in Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta
as Prince Gremin in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin
as Ramphis, Il Re in Verdi's Aida
as Zhevadov in Reise's "Rasputin"
as The King of Spades in "The Love for Three Oranges" by S. S. Prokofiev
as Friedrich in "Das Liebesverbot" by R. Wagner
as Gremin in "Eugene Onegin" by P. Tchaikovsky