2014 AWARDEE: ALEXEY LAVROV

Alexey Lavrov, from the Komi Republic, Russia, is in his second year of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at The Metropolitan Opera. In the 2013-2014 season, Mr. Lavrov sings Dominik in Arabella, Huntsman in Rusalka and Yamadori in Madama Butterfly at the Met. He is one of 7 FIRST PRIZE winners in the 2014 LISSNER VOCAL COMPETITION.In the 2012-2013 season, Mr. Lavrov made his Metropolitan Opera debut as the Herald in Otello and the Flemish Deputy in Don Carlo. Other recent career highlights include a recital with the Friends of Chamber Music society in Miami with pianist Ken Noda, Donald in Billy Budd at the Teatro Municipal de Santiago, and the Flemish Deputy in Don Carlo at the Théâre du Capitole Toulouse.
 

Mr. Lavrov made his debut as Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theatre in Moscow, and was the Fourth Prize winner in the Concurso Internacional de Canto Teatro Colón Competition. Other career highlights include his debut at the Mikhailovsky Theatre where he performed Silvio in I Pagliacci, Robert in Iolanta, and the title role of Eugene Onegin at Rheinsberg Festival in Germany, and on tour with Mikhailovsky Theatre in Japan.
 

Mr. Lavrov was a member of the Young Artist Program at the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia where he sang Morales in Carmen, Shchelkalov in Boris Godunov, and Robert in Iolanta. He is the winner of the 2010 Hariclea Darclee International Voice Competition, and the Three Centuries of Classical Romance singing competition. He earned Second Prize at the Byulbyul International Vocal Competition, Third Prize at the Elena Obraztsova International Competition, and was a Finalist in the International Rachmaninov Contest. Mr. Lavrov studied voice at Syktyvkar Music College and the St. Petersburg State Conservatory.

Photo credit: Dario Acosta

What the critics have started to say:

“Making a big impression in a tiny role was Alexey Lavrov, a baritone in the Met’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, who brought a rich voice and magnetic presence to the often-overlooked Prince Yamadori.” - New York Observer

“Also impressive in costume and voice: Alexey Lavrov as the conceited Yamadori.”
- superconductor.blogspot.com

“A first-year member of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, Lavrov, 27, demonstrated that it is only a matter of time before he commands principal baritone roles on the world’s leading opera stages. Displaying a rich, sizable voice and relaxed, suave demeanor, he strode the Gusman Concert Hall stage, enacting the characters from the operatic snippets on the program’s first half. With the charisma and good looks of a movie star, Lavrov turned each of the operatic excepts into a mini-drama.” - SouthFloridaClassicalReview.com

MORE REVIEW EXCERPTS

“The baritone Alexey Lavrov was a wry and resonant Schaunard, and the bass David Soar a confident Colline, mellow and unpretentious in his fourth-act aria, ‘Vecchia zimarra.’”
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“Alexei Lavrov too brought a lieder singer’s sensibility to the role of Schaunard, and the Russian baritone, a graduate of the Met’s Lindemann Young Artist program, proved himself a nimble dancer and physical comedian.”
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Read the entire review of his South Florida recital. BRAVO, ALEXEY!!!
 

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