Alexey Kudrya
{{short description|Russian operatic lyric tenor (born 1982)}}
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| name = Alexey Kudrya
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| caption = Alexey Kudrya winning Operalia, The World Opera Competition, Hungary in 2009
| birth_name = Alexei Kudrya
| birth_date= {{birth year and age|1982}}
Soviet Union
| occupation=Flute player, tenor singer, conductor
| years_active=2004–present
}}
Alexey Kudrya (born 1982) is a Russian operatic lyric tenor. He began his musical career playing flute.
Noting on his tenor style, Benjamin Ivry in The New York Sun commented: "Russia's Alexey Kudrya, who has won medals in several vocal competitions, has a refined lyric voice ideal for recordings and smaller opera houses."[http://www.nysun.com/arts/search-is-on-for-the-next-pavarotti/62949/ "Search Is On For the Next Pavarotti"], The New York Sun, September 19, 2007 His first engagements in his native Russia took him to the Stanislavsky Theatre in Moscow, also known as Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre.
In 2006, he also sang under the baton of Teodor Currentzis in concert performances in Moscow and Novosibirsk to mark the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth.{{Cite web |url=http://haydnrawstron.com/artist.php?ac=ak&type=biog |title=Profile by Haydn Rawstron |access-date=2011-02-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711150638/http://haydnrawstron.com/artist.php?ac=ak&type=biog |archive-date=2011-07-11 |url-status=dead }}
CommandOpera[http://commandopera.com/ CommandOpera] said in 2010 that "Alexey Kudrya is the most exciting Russian Tenor on the planet today: his vocal instrument positively ‘weeps’ in the most Italianate fashion."[http://commandopera.com/2010/09/20/barbiere-at-the-bayerische/ "Mr. Alexey Kudrya as Count Almaviva, in Il barbiere di Siviglia, at Bayerische Staatsoper"]
Performances and competitions
In October 2005, Kudrya became a laureate of the international competition Neue Stimmen (2nd prize).{{Cite web |url=http://www.neue-stimmen.de/en/2005-2preis |title=Profile by Neue-Stimmen |access-date=2010-02-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090403061457/http://www.neue-stimmen.de/en/2005-2preis/ |archive-date=2009-04-03 |url-status=dead }} In 2006, he debuted in Europe singing Lensky's aria from Eugene Onegin at the International Opera Singers Competition of Galina Vishnevskaya (2nd prize).
In 2009, he won first prize in Plácido Domingo’s Operalia Competition held in Hungary, and as well as the Special Prize offered by the Hungarian State Opera.{{Cite web |url=http://www.opera.hu/en/tarsulat/szemely/Alexey_Kudrya |title=Profile by Hungarian State Opera |access-date=2011-02-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721112205/http://www.opera.hu/en/tarsulat/szemely/Alexey_Kudrya |archive-date=2011-07-21 |url-status=dead }} In the same competition, the first prize award for soprano was Julia Novikova, also from Russia.[http://www.operalia.org/pageswinners/winners2009.html Operalia Winners 2009]
In the 2010/11 season, he debuted at the Vienna State opera, singing Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia in December/January.
References
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External links
- [http://www.peoples.ru/art/music/conductor/vladimir_kudrya Profile by Peoples]
- [http://www.stanmus.com/person.html?id=781 Photos by Stanmus]
- [http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/08/russians-take-top-prizes-at-domingos-operalia-contest.html LA Times Culture Monster]
- [http://www.operalia.org/pageswinners/winners2009.html Operalia Winners 2009]
- [http://operacompetition.com/main/press/articles/123 Opera Competition]
- [http://padovacultura.padovanet.it/corradetti Padova Cultura]
- [http://www.vlaamseopera.be/en Vlaamse Opera]
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Category:Operalia, The World Opera Competition prize-winners
Category:Russian classical flautists
Category:Russian operatic tenors
Category:21st-century Russian male opera singers