Aleksei Maslennikov
Aleksei Dmitriyevich Maslennikov 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 – September 2, 1956
- Simpleton – November 3, 1956
- Rudolfo – December 8, 1956
- Count Almaviva – January 20, 1957
- Berendey – February 12, 1957
- Werther – July 20, 1957
- Mazin – October 26, 1957
- Alfredo – January 9, 1958
- Laca Klemeň – December 6, 1958
- Otto – May 3, 1959
- Vaudemont – October 16, 1959
- Anatole Kuragin – December 15, 1959
- Vladimir Igorevich – January 24, 1960
- Kukushkin – October 8, 1960
- Schepin-Rostovsky – December 26, 1960
- Faust – February 9, 1961
- Duke of Mantua – May 3, 1961
- Anatoly – September 30, 1961
- Vladimir Gavrilov – March 8, 1962
- Fenton – November 17, 1962
- Eric – June 6, 1963
- The adjutant of Kutuzov and the voice behind the scenes – October 26, 1963
- Guidon – December 1, 1963
- The young actor – April 24, 1964
- Chekalinsky – July 23, 1964
- Hindu guest – January 8, 1965
- Lysander – December 8, 1965
- Pinkerton – December 1, 1966
- Klembovsky – April 4, 1970
- Finn – June 22, 1972
- Paolo – March 20, 1973
- Aleksei – April 7, 1974
- Mozart – December 26, 1976
- Selifan – June 7, 1977
- Cassio – January 24, 1978
- Don Giovanni – April 30, 1978
- Golitsyn – November 1, 1979
- Hermann – April 29, 1979
- Bedraggled little man – December 25, 1980
- Don Jerome – December 26, 1982
- Grisha Kuterma – 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.
- 1999 – Order of Honour
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