Alexander Dodonov

Alexander Mikhailovich Dodonov was a Russian opera singer. Vocally, he is best described as a lyric or spinto tenor.
He was born in St Petersburg, and was a pupil of Felice Ronconi, Manuel [Patricio Rodríguez García] and Francesco Lamperti. He sang for two years at the Italian operatic scenes in, then in Odessa and Kiev. He was a soloist at the Moscow Bolshoi Theatre from 1869 to 1891.
He sang the role of the Schoolmaster at the premiere of Peter Tchaikovsky's opera Cherevichki in Moscow, at the Bolshoi Theatre on January 31 1887, which was conducted by Pyotr Tchaikovsky.

Teaching and writing

He became a professor of the Moscow College of Music and Drama. Among his pupils were Leonid Sobinov and Dmitri Smirnov. He published his "Руководство к правильной постановке голоса и изучению искусства пения" in 1891. He died in Moscow.