Vyacheslav Pochapsky (Bass)
Born in Moscow. In 1983, he completed his studies at the
Gnesin Music College (E. Novikova’s class). At the 1981 All Union M.
Glinka Competition of Singers, he was awarded the special prize for
best performance of the Russian folk song. In 1982, while still
a student, he joined the Bolshoi Theatre Opera Company.
His
repertory includes more than 30 roles. He participated
in a Bolshoi and Teatro Carlo Felice co-production in Genoa
of Borodin’s Prince Igor. In 1993, he sang the role
of Ibn-Hakia in a Chemnitz opera house (Germany) production
of Iolanta (director Peter Ustinov, conductor Mikhail Yurovsky).
And in 2003, he appeared in a production of The
Oprichnik at Cagliari Opera House (Italy, conductor Gennady
Rozhdestvensky, director Graham Vick). In 2006, he sang Old Gipsy
in a concert performance of Rakhmaninov’s Aleko
in Salle Pleyel (Paris, conductor Vladimir Fedoseyev). In 2007,
he participated in a concert performance of Iolanta
in Verona (conductor Vladimir Fedoseyev).
Discography Slonimsky’s
The Master and Margarita — Woland, conductor M. Yurovsky,
1988. Rakhmaninov’s Aleko — Old Gipsy, conductor
A. Chistyakov, Le Chant du Monde, 1994. Rimsky-Korsakov’s
May Night — The Village-Head, conductor A. Chistyakov,
Russian Season, 1995. Dargomyzhsky’s The Stone Guest —
Leporello, conductor A. Chistyakov, Russian Season, 1995. Shostakovich’s
The Gamblers — Alexei, conductor A. Chistyakov, Russian
Season, 1997. Rakhmaninov’s The Bells, conductor V. Polyansky,
Chandos, 1999. Rakhmaninov’s Aleko — Old Gipsy, conductor
V. Fedoseyev, Relief, 2007.
Video Tchaikovsky’s The Maid
of Orleans — Thibaut d’Arc, conductor A. Lazarev,
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