Alexander Filippowitsch Wedernikow

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Alexander Filippowitsch Wedernikov ( Russian Александр Филиппович Ведерников , scientific transliteration Aleksandr Filippovič Vedernikov ; born December 23, 1927 in Mokino (near Kirov ); † January 9, 2018 in Moscow ) was a Russian vocal opera singer. He was the father of the Russian conductor Alexander Alexandrovich Wedernikow .

life and work

Wedernikow began studying mining in Korkina ( Chelyabinsk province ) and obtained the relevant diploma in 1947. From 1947 he received his first vocal training at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Sverdlovsk with MM Umestnow and with ZI Tarasenko . From 1950 he continued his education at the Moscow Conservatory with Jakowlewna Alpert-Chassina and was finally sent to the opera school of La Scala in Milan, where he became a student of Dinaro Barra . In 1956 Wedernikow and Kira Isotova won the International Robert Schumann Competition for piano and voice , which at that time was still held in Berlin.

From 1955 to 1957 he worked at the Leningrad Opera. In 1957 he made his debut at the Moscow Bolshoy Theater in the title role of Glinkas Ivan Susanin . Since then he has been part of the ensemble of this renowned Russian opera house. He also sang in the operas of Leningrad , Kiev , Tbilisi and Kharkov . Foreign guest appearances at La Scala in Milan, at the State Operas of Vienna and Berlin, at the Paris Grand Opéra, and at the National Operas in Sofia, Prague, Budapest and Warsaw, earned him a high international reputation. In 1987 he made a guest appearance at the Wiesbaden Festival and on a subsequent tour with the ensemble of the Bolshoy Theater in his great star role, Boris Godunow von Mussorgsky. Highlights in his repertoire for a typical Russian bass were roles such as Iwan Susanin in Glinka's opera of the same name ( A Life for the Czar ), Ruslan in Ruslan and Ludmilla von Glinka, Boris Godunow (and also Pimen ) in Boris Godunow , the Dosifey in Khovantchina by Mussorgsky, the Gremin in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin , the Kutuzov in War and Peace by Prokofieff, the Galitzky in Borodin's Prince Igor , the King Philip in Don Carlos by Giuseppe Verdi , the Mephisto in the Faust of Gounod and the Daland in the Flying One Dutch .

Wedernikow made sound recordings mainly with the Russian state label Melodiya . Three central opera productions, Prince Igor by Alexander Borodin , Snegourotchka by Rimski-Korsakow and The Stone Guest by Alexander Dargomyshski , deserve special mention . All three operas were recorded on Ariola-Eurodisc. A complete recording of Boris Godunov was also published by Philipps. The stingy knight of Rachmaninoff also appeared on the Harmonia Mundi label .

In 1967 Vedernikov received the title of Honored Artist, in 1976 that of People's Artist of the USSR, and in 1969 the great State Prize of the USSR.

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SURNAME Wedernikow, Alexander Filippowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Александр Филиппович Ведерников
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet or Russian opera singer with a bass voice
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Mokino (near Kirov )
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 2018
Place of death Moscow