Vladimir Kuzmenko

Tenor Vladimir Kuzmenko was born in the Ukraine. After having graduated as conductor from the Kiev Conservatory, he started to study singing in the class of Professor Timozhkin. After having finished his studies he was engaged at the Kiev Opera in 1987. His roles were very diversified: Almaviva in Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Lenski in Tchaikovski’s Eugen Onegin, Gounod’s Faust, or Grigorij in Musorgski’s Boris Godunov. In 1994 he became soloist of the Warsaw National Opera and in 1999 he was engaged at the State Theatre in Stuttgart. His repertory comprises large tenor roles in Verdi’s operas (Alfredo in La traviata, Radames in Aida, Duke in Rigoletto, Manrico in Il Trovatore). He sings also Kalaf in Puccini’s Turandot, Rodolfo in La Bohème, Herman in Tchaikowski’s Queen of Spades, Turridu in Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana. In parallel with Stuttgart he performs at the Semperoper in Dresden, the National Theatre and the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Opera in Zurich, the Opera in Barcelona, Royal Theatre Glasgow or the Great Theatre in Moscow.