Graduated from the College of Music under the Moscow Conservatory in 1992 and from the Gnessins Academy of Music in 1998. He participated in master classes given by Galina Vishnevskaya, Vladimir Atlantov, and Mstislav Rostropovich. He performed with the State Choir of Russia directed by Valery Polyansky, the Yurlov Russian State Academic Choir, and Boris Pevzner’s Moscow Choral Theatre. Since 1998, Veniamin has worked in the Prokofiev Studio Theatre. In 2000 he joined the Natalia Satz Children’s Theatre, where he performed as Lensky in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, Young Gypsy in Rachmaninov’s Aleko, Florizel in Alexander Tchaikovsky’s Royal Love, or the Winter’s Tale, and Musician in Khrennikov’s All Those Miracles.
The singer tours in Russia and abroad with the Russian Opera Theatre, the Moscow Operetta Theatre, the Volgograd Private Opera and the Don Cossacks Ensemble. He collaborates with the World Talents Foundation. The singer has participated in All-Russia and international festivals including the Mussorgsky Opera Festival in Tver, the Rachmaninov International Festival of Music, the Panorama of Russian Music Theatres in Omsk, and the Cyprus International Festival.
He has worked with many outstanding contemporary conductors such as Boris Khaikin, Mark Ermler, Algis Žiūraitis, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Vladimir Spivakov, Valery Polyansky, Mikhail Shcherbakov, Nader Abbassi, Mikhail Arkadiev, George Cleve, Borja Quintas.
Since 2001, Veniamin Egorov has been a soloist of the Novaya Opera Theatre of Moscow.
Awards and Honours:
- Prize-winner of the Music and Classics International Competition in Ruza (First Prize, 2011)
- Prize-winner of the 13th Moscow International Festival Musical Autumn in Tushino (2008)
Roles performed at the Novaya Opera:
Misail in Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov
Triquet in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin
Gaston in Verdi's La Traviata
Sinodal, Messenger in Rubinstein's The Demon
Fonte in Verdi's I due Foscari
Marcellus in Thomas's Hamlet
Bobyl, First Herald, Tsar Berendey in Rimsky-Korsakov's The Snow Maiden
Peppe in Leoncavallo's I Pagliacci
Ivan Lykov in Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride
Rooster in Valdgardt's The Cat's House
Flavio in Bellini's Norma
Finn in Glinka's Ruslan and Lyudmila
First Priest, First Warrior in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte
Ismaele, Abdallo in Verdi's Nabucco
Lohengrin in Wagner's Lohengrin
Gherardo in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi
Gabriel von Eisentein in Strauss' Die Fledermaus
Yeroshka in Borodin's Prince Igor
Teapot in Ravel's L’enfant et les sortilèges
Tristan in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde
The Prince in Martynov's The School for Wives
Tybalt in Gounod's Romeo et Juliette
Father in Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker. An Opera
Krugel in Shostakovich's The Gamblers
The Gingerbread Witch in Engelbert Humperdinck's The Gingerbread House, or Hänsel und Gretel
Normanno in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor
Narrator in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (fairy-tale with pictures)
Prince Yamadori in Puccini's Madama Butterfly
Borsa in Verdi's Rigoletto
Arvino in Verdi's I Lombardi alla prima crociata (in concert)
St. Matthew in Respighi's Christus
Messenger in Rubinstein's The Demon (in concert)
Third Jew in Strauss' Salome (in concert)
Altoum in Puccini's Turandot (in concert)
Parts in the productions:
Richard Wagner (concert)
Viva Verdi! (gala concert)
Maria Callas (musical offering)
Novaya Opera Tenors (gala concert)
Bravissimo! (opera mix)
Rossini (musical divertissement)
This is Opera! (dramatized performance)
Johann Strauss, the Waltz King (gala concert)
Waltzes, Tangos & Foxtrots (gala concert)
Offenbach Gala (concert)
Discography:
Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Eugene Onegin (DVD) — Triquet
