Vyacheslav Kalyuzhny

Vyacheslav Kalyuzhny graduated from the Vocal Department of the Rostov State Rachmaninoff Conservatoire in 1996.

Since 1997, he was a soloist with the St Petersburg Chamber Opera Theatre. Since 2003, he has been a soloist with the Mikhailovsky Theatre. There, he participated in the productions of Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia (Don Bartolo), Donizetti’s Il campanello, Rita, and Pietro il grande Czar delle Russie о II Falegname di Livonia, Cimarosa’s Il matrimonio segreto, Puccini’s Tosca (Jailor) and Madama Butterfly, Verdi’s Rogoletto (Count Monterone) and La traviata (Marchese d’Obigny), Offenbach’s La belle Hélène, Richard Strauss’s Die schweigsame Frau (Morosus), Johann Strauss’s Die Fledermaus (Frank), Bortnyansky’s Le faucon, Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov(Varlaam) and Khovanshchina (Varsonofyev), Borodin’s Prince Igor (Skula), Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (Zaretsky, Officer) and Queen of Spades (Narumov), Shostakovich’s Anti-Formalist Rayok, and Asafiev’s Cinderella (Corporal).

In 2010, he graduated from the Opera Stage Directing Department of the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov’s Conservatoire. His final project there was a production of Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta. 

Nowadays, Vyacheslav Kalyuzhny is a director of the Mikhailovsky Opera Company. As a stage director’s assistant, he participated in the productions of Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci and Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana staged by Liliana Cavani, Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera staged by Andrejs Žagar), Dvořák’s Rusalka staged by Igor Konyaev, Halévy’s La Juive and Puccini’s La Bohème staged by Arnaud Bernard, Britten’s Billy Budd staged by Willi Decker, Eugene Onegin staged by Andriy Zholdak, Eugene Onegin and Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer staged by Vasily Barkhatov, Rimsky-Korsakov’s Tsar’s Bride staged by Andrey Moguchy, and Verdi’s Il trovatore staged by Dmitri Tcherniakov.