Biography

He graduated from The Gnessin Academy of Music (V. Levko‘s class), where he appeared as soloist with The Academy‘s Opera Studio. Then he joined The Moscow Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theatre. Since 1995 he has been a Bolshoi Theatre soloist.

Repertoire

Ibn-Hakia (Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta)
Narumov, Tomsky, Yeletsky (Queen of Spades)
A Company Commander (Eugene Onegin)
Schaunard (La Boheme)
Kuzka, Streshnev, Boyar Shaklovity (Mussorgsky’s Khovanshchina)
Silvano (Un Ballo in Maschera)
Afron (Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Golden Cockerel)
A Sacristan (Tosca)
Dunois (Tchaikovsky’s The Maid of Orleans)
Don Carlos (Dargomyzhsky‘s The Stone Guest)
Farfarello, Leandro (Prokofiev’s The Love for Thee Oranges)
Yushko Velebin, Bomelius (Rimsky-Korsakov‘s The Maid of Pskov)
The High Priest of Bel (Nabucco)
Virgily (Rakhmaninov’s Francesña da Rimini)
Mr. Astley (Prokofiev’s The Gambler)
Mandarin (Turandot)
Carnival-scarecrow, Second Herald (The Snow Maiden)
Doctor, Servant to Macbeth, Murderer (Macbeth)
The Servant (Prokofiev’s The Fiery Angel)
Andrei Shchelkalov (Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov)
Police Sergeant (Shostakovich’s The Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk)
The Imperial Commissioner (Madama Butterfly)
Old Footman, Gavrila, Marshal Berthier, General Raevsky, Second Madman (Prokofiev’s War and Peace)
Homeless man (Desyatnikov’s The Children of Rosenthal)

Discography

Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta - Ibn-Hakia, conductor V. Fedoseev, Relief, 2002.

Awards

Vladimir Krasov was awarded a diploma at the Chaliapin Bass Competition in 1993.