Vyacheslav Pochapsky (Bass)
Biography Born in Moscow. In 1983, he completed his
studies at the Gnesin Music College (E. Novikova’s class). In 1982, while still
a student, he joined the Bolshoi Theatre Opera
Company.
Repertoire Yakuside (Madama Butterfly)
Sobakin (Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride) Grand Inquisitor (Don
Carlo) Monterone, Sparafucile (Rigoletto) Burunday (Rimsky-Korsakov’s
The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh) Kochubey (Tchaikovsky’s Mazeppa)
Von Wierhof (Prokofiev’s Semyon Kotko) Sciarrone (Tosca) Zaretsky
(Eugene Onegin) Johann (Werther) Benedictine (Prokofiev’s Betrothal in a
Monastery) A soldier, Thibaut d’Arc (Tchaikovsky’s The Maid of Orleans)
Surin (The Queen of Spades) Prince Zhemchuzhniy (Tchaikovsky’s The
Oprichnik) Baron (Rakhmaninov’s The Miserly Knight) Dosifey
(Mussorgsky’s Khovanshchina) Galitsky (Borodin’s Prince Igor) Rene
(Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta) Polkan, Tsar Dodon (Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Golden
Cockerel) Salieri (Rimsky-Korsakov’s Mozart and Salieri) Title role
(Glinka’s Ivan Susanin) Varlaam, title role (Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov)
Ramfis (Aida) Ivan the Terrible (Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Maid of Pskov)
Padre Guardiano (La Forza del destino) Gavrila, Captain Rambal, Prince
Nikolai Bolkonsky, General Beliard (Prokofiev’s War and Peace) Priest
(Shostakovich’s The Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk) Mamyrov (The Enchantress)
Count Monterone (Rigoletto) Baron Douphol (La Traviata) Gremin
(Eugene Onegin) Old Convict (Katerina Izmailova) Monk (The Stone Guest)
He participated in a Bolshoi and Teatro Carlo Felice co-production in Genoa
of Borodin’s Prince Igor.
Tours In 1993, he sang the
role of Ibn-Hakia in a Chemnitz opera house (Germany) production of Iolanta
(director Peter Ustinov, conductor Mikhail Yurovsky). And in 2003, he appeared
in a production of The Oprichnik at Cagliari opera house (Italy, conductor
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, director Graham Vick). In 2006, he sang Old Gipsy in a
concert performance of Rakhmaninov’s Aleko in Salle Pleyel (Paris, conductor
Vladimir Fedoseyev). In 2007, he participated in a concert performance of
Iolanta in Verona (conductor Vladimir
Fedoseyev).
Discography Slonimsky’s The Master and
Margarita — Woland, conductor M. Jurowski, 1988. Rakhmaninov’s Aleko — Old
Gipsy, conductor A. Chistyakov, Le Chant du Monde, 1994. Rimsky-Korsakov’s
May Night — The Village-Head, conductor A. Chistyakov, Russian Season,
1995. Dargomyzhsky’s The Stone Guest — Leporello, conductor A. Chistyakov,
Russian Season, 1995. Shostakovich’s The Gamblers — Alexei, conductor A.
Chistyakov, Russian Season, 1997. Rakhmaninov’s The Bells, conductor V.
Polyansky, Chandos, 1999. Rakhmaninov’s Aleko — Old Gipsy, conductor V.
Fedoseyev, Relief, 2007.
Video: Tchaikovsky’s The Maid of Orleans — Thibaut d’Arc,
conductor A. Lazarev, NVC arts.
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