Aleksei Maslennikov

Aleksei (Albert) Dmitryevich Maslennikov (russian: Алексей (Альберт) Дмитриевич Масленников; September 9, 1929 – November 30, 2016) was a Russian tenor.

Maslennikov was born in Novocherkassk, Russia. In 1953 he studied at the Moscow Conservatory and in 1955 became a member of the Bolshoi Theatre where he remained into the late 1990s. His vocal style is often compared to that of the German tenor Gerhard Stolze as both men shared a likeness in singing Sprechgesang. He collaborated with composer Stefania Anatolyevna Zaranek on the operetta ''Zolotoi Fontan''.

Repertoire at the Bolshoi Theatre

*Lensky (''Evgeny Onegin'' by Tchaikovsky) – September 2, 1956
*Simpleton (''Boris Godunov'' by Mussorgsky) – November 3, 1956
*Rudolfo (''La Boheme'' by Puccini) – December 8, 1956
*Count Almaviva (''Il barbiere di Siviglia'' by G. Rossini) – January 20, 1957
*Berendey (''Snow Maiden'' by Rimsky-Korsakov) – February 12, 1957
*Werther (''Werther'' by Massenet) – July 20, 1957
*Mazin (''Mother'' by Khrennikov) – October 26, 1957
*Alfredo (''La Traviata'' by Verdi) – January 9, 1958
*Laca Klemeň (''Jenufa'' by Janáček) – December 6, 1958
*Otto (''Bank Ban'' by F. Erkel) – May 3, 1959
*Vaudemont (''Iolanta'' by Tchaikovsky) – October 16, 1959
*Anatole Kuragin (''War and Peace'' by Prokofiev) – December 15, 1959
*Vladimir Igorevich (''Prince Igor'' by Alexander Borodin) – January 24, 1960
*Kukushkin (''The Story of a Real Man'' by Prokofiev) – October 8, 1960
*Schepin-Rostovsky (''Decembrists'' by Y. Shaporin) – December 26, 1960
*Faust (''Faust'' by Gounod) – February 9, 1961
*Duke of Mantua (''Rigoletto'' by Giuseppe Verdi) – May 3, 1961
*Anatoly (''The Destiny of a man'' by I. Dzerzhinsky) – September 30, 1961
*Vladimir Gavrilov (''Not Only Love'' by R. Shchedrin) – March 8, 1962
*Fenton (''Falstaff'' by G. Verdi) – November 17, 1962
*Eric (''Der Fliegende Holländer'' by Richard Wagner) – June 6, 1963
*The adjutant of Kutuzov and the voice behind the scenes (''War and Peace'' by Prokofiev) – October 26, 1963
*Guidon (''The Tale of Tsar Saltan'' by Rimsky-Korsakov) – December 1, 1963
*The young actor (''October'' by V. Muradeli) – April 24, 1964
*Chekalinsky (''The Queen of Spades'' by Tchaikovsky) – July 23, 1964
*Hindu guest (''Sadko'' by Rimsky-Korsakov) – January 8, 1965
*Lysander (''Midsummer Night's Dream'' by B. Britten) – December 8, 1965
*Pinkerton (''Madam Butterfly'' by G. Puccini.) – December 1, 1966
*Klembovsky (''Semyon Kotko'' by Prokofiev) – April 4, 1970
*Finn (''Ruslan and Lyudmila'' by Glinka) – June 22, 1972
*Paolo (''Francesca da Rimini'' by S. Rachmaninoff) – March 20, 1973
*Aleksei (''The Gambler'' by Prokofiev) – April 7, 1974
*Mozart (''Mozart and Salieri'' by Rimsky-Korsakov) – December 26, 1976
*Selifan (''Dead Souls'' by Shchedrin) – June 7, 1977
*Cassio (''Otello'' by Verdi) – January 24, 1978
*Don Giovanni (''The Stone Guest'' by Dargomyzhsky) – April 30, 1978
*Golitsyn (''Khovanshchina'' by Mussorgsky) – November 1, 1979
*Hermann (''The Queen of Spades'' by Tchaikovsky) – April 29, 1979
*Bedraggled little man (''Katerina Ismailova'' by Shostakovich) – December 25, 1980
*Don Jerome (''Betrothal in a Monastery'' by Prokofiev) – December 26, 1982
*Grisha Kuterma (''Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh'' by Rimsky-Korsakov) – December 27, 1983

Awards

*1955 – II Prize at the world festival of youth and students in Warsaw
*1973 – People's Artist of the RSFSR
*1976 – Order of the October Revolution
*1977 – Glinka State Prize of the RSFSR (for his performances in the operas "Ruslan and Lyudmila", "Boris Godunov", "War and Peace", "The Gambler").
*1999 – Order of HonourУказ Президента Российской Федерации от 3 сентября 1999 года № 1155 «О награждении государственными наградами Российской Федерации»
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Recordings

* Don Jerome in Sergei Prokofiev's ''Betrothal in a Monastery''
* The pilot Kukushkin in Prokofiev's ''The Story of a Real Man'' dir. Mark Ermler. 1961
* Both Shuisky and the Simpleton in Modest Mussorgsky's ''Boris Godunov'' dir. Herbert von Karajan.
* Anatole Kuragin in Prokofiev's ''War and Peace'' dir. Alexander Melik-Pashayev

References

External links

Betrothal in a Monastery – Guardian website review

{{DEFAULTSORT:Maslennikov, Aleksei
1929 births
2016 deaths
Russian operatic tenors
People from Novocherkassk
Soviet male opera singers
Honored Artists of the RSFSR
Moscow Conservatory alumni
People's Artists of the RSFSR
Burials in Troyekurovskoye Cemetery
Recipients of the Order of Honour (Russia)