Sergei Pleshivtsev

• Laureate of the 1^st prize of the V International Orfei Competition for Young Vocalists (Volgograd, 2008)

Sergei Pleshivtsev was born in Vladivostok. In 1995 he graduated with excellence from the Far Eastern Federal University and in 2010 he graduated with excellence from the Vladivostok college of Music where he studied in the opera department with Professor Vladimir Voronin.

From 1996 to 2008 he was a soloist in the Vladivostok Chamber Musical Theatre under the direction of Vladimir Voronin.

He has attended master classes with Helen Schneiderman (Germany), Ikuo Yamamoto (Japan), and Yelena Mirtova (Russia).

He has participated in Russian-Japanese gatherings as part of the International Visual Art Biennale Festival (Vladivostok, 1999, 2011), and also in the Festival of the Countries of the Pacific Rim (Sakaiminato, Japan, 2002). He represented the Primorsky Region in the Days of Primorsky Culture in the Republic of Tatarstan (Kazan, 2012). Since 2008 he is a regular participant of the International Far Eastern Spring Festival in Vladivostok).

In 2013 he became a soloist of the Primorsky Opera and Ballet Theatre. Since 2016 he has been a soloist of the Opera Company of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre.

In May 2019, he participated in the tour performances of the Tsar's Bride opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov directed by Vyacheslav Starodubtsev in the Zaryadye concert hall (Moscow) and in the Mariinsky-2 (St Petersburg).

In 2019, an audio recording of Sergei Prokofiev’s opera A Story of a Real Man with the participation of the artist became a laureate of the 2^nd degree of the International Prize Pure Sound.

In September 2024, Sergei Pleshivtsev participated in touring performances at the New Stage of the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, performing the part of The Pharaoh in Aida, and the part of Malyuta Skuratov in The Tsar’s Bride.

In May 2024 and April 2025, as member of the Opera Company of the Primorsky Stage, he participated in the I and II Far East Easter Festivals.

In June 2025, within the framework of the Russia Day celebrations, Sergei Pleshivtsev performed Ivan Susanin’s aria from the opera of the same name as part of the All-Russian marathon “Cantata. Russia”.

In June 2025, as part of a tour at the Hvorostovsky Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre, he performed the part of King René in the opera Iolanta.

In October 2025, he took part in a concert performance of Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing under the baton of Valery Gergiev.

Repertoire at the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre:
Filippo II, A Monk (Don Carlo, G. Verdi);
Ferrando (Il trovatore, G. Verdi);
Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte, W.-A. Mozart);
Colas (Bastien und Bastienne, W.-A. Mozart);
Doctor Bartolo (Le nozze di Figaro, W.-A. Mozart);
Don Pasquale (Don Pasquale, G. Donizetti);
Svetozar (Ruslan and Lyudmila, M. Glinka, concert performance);
Balaga, The Bolkonsky's Butler, Tikhon Scherbatsky (War and Peace, S. Prokofiev);
King René (Iolanta, P. Tchaikovsky);
Gremin, Zaretsky (Eugene Onegin, P. Tchaikovsky);
Narumov (The Queen of Spades, P. Tchaikovsky);
Kochubei (Mazepa, P. Tchaikovsky);
Malyuta Skuratov, Sobakin (The Tsar’s Bride, N. Rimsky-Korsakov);
Father Frost, Maslenitsa (The Snow Maiden, N. Rimsky-Korsakov);
Tsar Saltan, Skomorokh (The Tale of the Tsar Saltan, N. Rimsky-Korsakov);
Chub (Christmas Eve, N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov);
Cook (The Love For Three Oranges, S. Prokofiev);
Ivan Severyanovich Flyagin, Storyteller (The Enchanted Wanderer, R. Shchedrin);
Ivan Fyodorovich Epanchin (Idiot, A. Smelkov, concert performance);
Zuniga (Carmen, G. Bizet);
Timur (Turandot, G. Puccini);
Cesare Angelotti (Tosca, G. Puccini);
Imperial Commissioner (Madama Butterfly, G. Puccini);
Banquo, Doctor (Macbeth, G. Verdi);
Count Monterone (Rigoletto, G. Verdi);
Marquis d'Obigny, Doctor Grenvil (La traviata, G. Verdi);
Ramfis, The Pharaoh (Aida, G. Verdi);
Frank (Die Fledermaus, J. Strauss II);
the Old Robber Woman (The Story of Kai and Gerda, S. Banevich);
The Robber (Town Musicians of Bremen, G. Gladkov);
Bass part in I. Stravinsky’s Les Noces.

Repertoire also includes: Dosifei, Strelets (Khovanshchina, M. Musorgsky), Varlaam, Pimen (Boris Godunov, M. Musorgsky), A Fat Englishman (The Gambler, S. Prokofiev), Daland (Der fliegende Holländer, R. Wagner), Old Gypsy (Aleko, S. Rachmaninov), Father Benedictine (Betrothal in a Monastery, S. Prokofiev), Storozhevoi (Doctor Zhivago, A. Lubchenko), Commendatore (Don Giovanni, W.-A. Mozart), Faddei, Miller (The miller who was a wizard, a cheat and a matchmaker, Y. Fomin), Monk (The Stone Guest, A. Dargomyzhsky), Coachman (The Witch, V. Vlasov, V. Feret), Comissioner (The story of a Real Man, S. Prokofiev), Raimondo (Lucia di Lammermoor, G. Donizetti), 2^nd knight (Parsifal, R. Wagner), Foka (The Enchantress, P. Tchaikovsky, concert performance), Neighbor (The Fiery Angel, S. Prokofiev, concert performance).

The singer’s repertoire also includes the bass roles in High Mass in B Minor (J.S. Bach), Requiem (W.-A. Mozart), The Music to the Ivan the Terrible (S. Prokofiev). Chamber repertoire includes works by G. Sviridov, P. Tchaikovsky, S. Rachmaninov, M. Musorgsky, F. Schubert, and others.