Aleksei Isaev was born in Dm.-Cherkasy in the Tver district in Russia.
He graduated from the Khanty-Mansiysk Center for the Arts for talent Children of the North and at the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music in the class of Professor M. Paskhalsky. In 2011 he started to work at the Moscow Musical Theater Helikon Opera.
During his time at the theatre, he sang the roles of Grigory Gryaznoy (The Tsar’s Bride), Iago (Otello), Germont (La Traviata), Conte Di Luna (Il Trovatore), Nabucco (Nabucco), Onegin (Onegin), Prince Yeletsky, Count Tomsky (The Queen of Spades), Robert (Iolanta), Mazzepa (Mazzepa) Aleko (Aleko), Silvio (Pagliacci), Conte Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro). Rangoni (Boris Godunov), Escamillo (Carmen) Renato (Un ballo in maschera).
In October 2022, he obtained a great success at the Capitole de Toulouse as Vodnik (Rusalka), a role he returned to in February 2023 for his debut at Covent Garden, under the baton of Semyon Bychkov. A few months later, he replaced Ludovic Tézier in the role of the Conte di Luna for the final performance of Il Trovatore, still at Covent Garden.
Recently, he was Don Carlo di Vargas (La Forza del Destino) at Covent Garden, Don Pizarro (Fidelio) at the Dijon Opera and Conte di Luna at the Hamburg Staatsoper.
Among his projects : Iago at Dresden Semperoper, Nabucco in Toulouse and, at Covent Garden, Carlo Gérard (Andrea Chénier) alongside Jonas Kaufmann and Sondra Radvanovsky, and Scarpia alongside Sonya Yoncheva and Yusif Eyvazov.
In 2022 Aleksei sang the role of Mazzepa at Theater Biel Switzerland. Amonasro (Aida) at Helikon Opera. Gryaznoy (The Tsar’s Bride). Scarpia (Tosca) at Kazan Opera. Count Igor (Count Igor) Ufa Opera. In 2021, the singer made his debut as Scarpia (Tosca) at the Helikon Opera, played the role of Conte di Luna (Il Trovatore) at Hessisches Staatstheater, Wiesbaden and Germont (La Traviata) in Helsinki.
In 2019 he sang the role of Conte di Luna (Il Trovatore) at the Mariinsky Theater, the role of Onegin (Onegin) at the Petruzzelli Opera House in Bari, the role of Nabucco and Yeletsky at the Saaremaa Opera Festival. In 2020 he sang the role of the Demon (The Demon) in Bordeaux, this performance became the Best Opera Performance of the 2020/2021 season in France.
In 2018 he made his debut as Iago (Otello) at Hessisches Staatstheater, Wiesbaden. Then he made his debut in the premiere of Lucia di Lammermoor at the Dresden Semperoper where he played the role of Enrico. In 2019 returned to Semperoper in the same role.
He played the role of Mazzepa (Mazzepa) and the role of Robert (Iolanta) at Theater an der Wien.
Aleksei Isaev “Tre sbirri, una carrozza… Va Tosca”. (Te Deum). Tosca.
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