Since 2009, the bass Andrei Valentiy has been an ensemble member of the Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus in Minsk. He also regularly appears at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, where he most recently sang Pimen (Boris Godunov), the Old Convict (Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District), Colline (La bohème), Basilio (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Prince Ivan Khovansky (Khovanshchina), King René (Iolanta), Filippo II and Monk (Don Carlo), Varangian Merchant and Ocean (Sadko), Sobakin (The Tsar’s Bride), King Heinrich and Herald (Lohengrin), Commendatore (Don Giovanni) and Prince Gudal in Rubinstein’s The Demon.
Other past engagements include King René, Sobakin, Prince Galitsky (Prince Igor), Timur (Turandot), Ramfis (Aida) and Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte) at the Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus, Enrico VIII (Anna Bolena) at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Prince Ivan Khovansky at the Stanislavsky Music Theatre in Moscow, Prince Gudal at the Bard Music Festival, King René at the Opéra de Rennes and the Angers Nantes Opéra, Zaccaria (Nabucco) at the Dorset Opera Festival, Prince Gremin (Eugene Onegin) at the Opéra de Toulon and the Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv and Boris Ismailov (Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District) at the Wiesbaden State Theatre.
Andrei Valentiy’s other roles at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow — where he made his debut in 2005 as Musorgsky in Leonid Desyatnikov’s The Children of Rosenthal — have included High Priest of Baal (Nabucco), Captain Ramballe (War and Peace) and Surin (The Queen of Spades). He has also performed at the Savonlinna Opera Festival, the Ljubljana Festival and at La Scala, Milan.
At the Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus, Andrei Valentiy has also appeared in roles such as Zaccaria, Prince Gremin, Basilio, Colline, Father Frost in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Snow Maiden, Dosifey (Khovanshchina) and Ramfis. He has also sung Prince Gremin and King René as a guest soloist at the Mikhailovsky Theatre in St Petersburg.
