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

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tenor A tenor is a type of classical music, classical male singing human voice, voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types. It is the highest male chest voice type. The tenor's vocal range extends up to C5. The lo ...

. Maslennikov was born in

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. In 1953 he studied at the

Moscow Conservatory The Moscow Conservatory, also officially Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory (russian: Московская государственная консерватория им. П. И. Чайковского, link=no) is a musical educational inst ...

and in 1955 became a member of the

Bolshoi Theatre The Bolshoi Theatre ( rus, Большо́й теа́тр, r=Bol'shoy teatr, literally "Big Theater", p=bɐlʲˈʂoj tʲɪˈatər) is a historic theatre in Moscow, Russia, originally designed by architect Joseph Bové, which holds ballet and ope ...

where he remained into the late 1990s. His vocal style is often compared to that of the German tenor

Gerhard Stolze Gerhard Stolze (1 October 1926, Dessau – 11 March 1979, Garmisch-Partenkirchen) was a German operatic tenor. He was a character tenor best known as a Wagner singer. His signature role was Mime (''Das Rheingold'', '' Siegfried''). Other i ...

as both men shared a likeness in singing

Sprechgesang (, "spoken singing") and (, "spoken voice") are expressionist vocal techniques between singing and speaking. Though sometimes used interchangeably, ''Sprechgesang'' is directly related to the operatic ''recitative'' manner of singing (in which p ...

. 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 The Decembrist Revolt ( ru , Восстание декабристов, translit = Vosstaniye dekabristov , translation = Uprising of the Decembrists) took place in Russia on , during the interregnum following the sudden death of Emperor Ale ...

'' 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 People's Artist of the RSFSR (russian: Народный артист РСФСР, ''Narodnyj artist RSFSR'') was an honorary title granted to Soviet Union artists, including theatre and film directors, choreographers, music performers, and orchest ...

*1976 –

Order of the October Revolution The Order of the October Revolution (russian: Орден Октябрьской Революции, ''Orden Oktyabr'skoy Revolyutsii'') was instituted on October 31, 1967, in time for the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution. It was conferr ...

*1977 –

Glinka State Prize of the RSFSR The Glinka State Prize of the RSFSR (Государственная премия РСФСР имени М.И. Глинки) was a prize awarded to musicians of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1965–1991. To be distinguished f ...

(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

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Betrothal in a Monastery ''Betrothal in a Monastery'' (Russian title ''Обручение в монастыре'') is an opera in nine scenes (four acts) by Sergei Prokofiev to a Russian libretto by the composer and Mira Mendelson after Sheridan's ''The Duenna''. Proko ...

'' * The pilot Kukushkin in Prokofiev's ''

The Story of a Real Man ''The Story of a Real Man'' (russian: Повесть о настоящем человеке, translit=Povest' o nastoyashchem cheloveke, link=no) is an opera in four acts by the Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev, his opus 117. It was written from 1 ...

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Mark Ermler Mark Fridrikhovich Ermler (russian: Марк Фридрихович Эрмлер; 5 May 193214 April 2002) was a Russian conductor. Biography Mark Ermler was born in Leningrad in 1932. His parents were Vera Bakun, a film set designer, and Fridrik ...

. 1961 * Both Shuisky and the Simpleton in

Modest Mussorgsky Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky ( rus, link=no, Модест Петрович Мусоргский, Modest Petrovich Musorgsky , mɐˈdɛst pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ ˈmusərkskʲɪj, Ru-Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky version.ogg; – ) was a Russian compo ...

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Boris Godunov Borís Fyodorovich Godunóv (; russian: Борис Фёдорович Годунов; 1552 ) ruled the Tsardom of Russia as ''de facto'' regent from c. 1585 to 1598 and then as the first non-Rurikid tsar from 1598 to 1605. After the end of his ...

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Herbert von Karajan Herbert von Karajan (; born Heribert Ritter von Karajan; 5 April 1908 – 16 July 1989) was an Austrian conductor. He was principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic for 34 years. During the Nazi era, he debuted at the Salzburg Festival, wit ...

. * Anatole Kuragin in Prokofiev's ''

War and Peace ''War and Peace'' (russian: Война и мир, translit=Voyna i mir; pre-reform Russian: ; ) is a literary work by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy that mixes fictional narrative with chapters on history and philosophy. It was first published ...

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Alexander Melik-Pashayev Alexander Shamil'evich Melik-Pashayev (russian: Александр Шамильевич Мелик-Пашаев; hy, Ալեքսանդր Մելիք-Փաշայան, Alek’sandr Melik’-P’ashayan; 23 October 1905, in Tbilisi – 18 June 1964), P ...

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)