Alexey Neklyudov

Tenor Alexey Neklyudov can already look back on a string of successes that include his Bregenz Festival debut as Lensky (Eugene Onegin), Percy in a new production of Donizetti’s Anna Bolena alongside Diana Damrau at the Zurich Opera, Alfredo (La traviata) at the Komische Oper in Berlin and Lensky under Lorenzo Viotti at the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon.

He made his Western European debut in 2016 as Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore) at the Baden State Theatre in Karlsruhe, returning as Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Oronte (Alcina) and Percy. He made his debut as Don Ottavio in concert performances of Don Giovanni with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra under Stefano Montanari in Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in 2018, the year in which he sang Belfiore in a new production of Il viaggio a Reims and Ferrando (Così fan tutte) for the Zurich Opera and Lensky at Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre. In 2019 he sang the tenor solo in performances of Mozart’s Requiem and Rachmaninoff’s The Bells at the Colmar International Music Festival.

Alexey Neklyudov began his musical training in Reutov near his home city of Moscow, later studying at the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre in Moscow and with Svetlana Nesterenko at the city’s Gnessin Institute. Even as a student he was already winning competitions. In 2012 he was awarded a scholarship by the Russian National Philharmonic and in October 2013 he received a bursary from the Muslim Magomayev Foundation. In 2015 he took part in the Academy of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence.

Alexey Neklyudov made his debut with the Russian National Philharmonic under Vladimir Spivakov in 2010 and was later invited by Spivakov to appear with him at the Colmar International Music Festival in 2013 and 2014. Among the other conductors with whom he has worked are Vladimir Jurowski, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Ottavio Dantone, Ainārs Rubiķis, Pietro Rizzo, Valentin Uryupin, Peter Neumann, Federico Maria Sardelli, Frieder Bernius, Benjamin Pionnier, Fabio Mastrangelo, Dmitri Jurowski and Ken-David Masur.

Alexey Neklyudov became a member of the Moscow New Opera in 2013. Among his roles for the company have been Lensky, Tebaldo (I Capuleti e i Montecchi), Tsar Berendey in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Snow Maiden, Alfredo and Narraboth (Salome). He made his Bolshoi debut in 2014 as Ferrando in Floris Visser’s new production of Così fan tutte under Stefano Montanari and in 2015 appeared for the first time in Tel Aviv as Lïkov in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride.