Alexei Kostyuk

• Laureate of the II International Narva Lights Stars Opera Competition (Estonia, 2010)

Alexei Kostyuk was born in Leningrad. In 2012 he graduated from the Rimsky-Korsakov St Petersburg State Conservatory (class of Elena Oparina).

Alexei Kostyuk’s opera debut took place in 2009 on the main stage of the Rimsky-Korsakov St Petersburg State Conservatory Theater of Opera and Ballet, where he performed the part of Triquet (Eugene Onegin, P. Tchaikovsky). On the same stage, year later Alexei Kostyuk debuted as Lensky in Alexei Stepanyuk production.

In the 2012/13 season Alexei Kostyuk was a soloist of the St Petersburg Chamber Opera and the Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers (class of Alexei Steblianko).

He became a soloist of Primorsky Opera and Ballet Theatre in 2013. Since 2016 Alexei Kostyuk has been a member 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 September 2023, Alexei Kostyuk conducted master classes in Managua and León, Nicaragua.

In November 2023, on the Historical Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre, he performed the part of Canio in Ruggero Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci being part of the IX Saint Petersburg International Cultural Forum. In December 2023, he appeared on the stage of the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre in the opera The Story of a Real Man by Sergei Prokofiev.

In May 2024, as a member of the Opera Company of the Primorsky Stage, he participated in the I Far East Easter Festival.

Repertoire at the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre:
Alfredo Germont (La traviata, G. Verdi);
Duke of Mantua (Rigoletto, G. Verdi);
Tamino (The Magic Flute, W.-A. Mozart);
Canio (Pagliacci, R. Leoncavallo);
Vaudémont (Iolanta, P. Tchaikovsky);
Lensky, Triquet (Eugene Onegin, P. Tchaikovsky);
Andrei (Mazepa, P. Tchaikovsky);
Tsarevich Guidon, Old man (The Tale of Tsar Saltan, N. Rimsky-Korsakov);
Ivan Lykov, Bomely (The Tsar’s Bride, N. Rimsky-Korsakov);
Tsar Berendey (The Snow Maiden, N. Rimsky-Korsakov);
Vakula (Christmas Eve, N. Rimsky-Korsakov);
Anatole Kuragin (War and Peace, S. Prokofiev);
Truffaldino (The Love for Three Oranges, S. Prokofiev);
Don Basilio (Le nozze di Figaro, W.-A. Mozart);
Heinrich von Eisenstein (Die Fledermaus, J. Strauss II);
Malcolm (Macbeth, G. Verdi);
Remendado (Carmen, G. Bizet);
Emperor Altoum (Turandot, G. Puccini);
Spoletta (Tosca, G. Puccini);
Messenger (Aida, G. Verdi);
Chekalinsky (The Queen of Spades, P. Tchaikovsky);
Young Gypsy (Aleko, S. Rachmaninoff);
Murych the Cat (Murych the Cat, S. Banevich);
The King (Town Musicians of Bremen, G. Gladkov).

Repertoire also includes:
Sir Edgar Ravenswood (Lucia di Lammermoor, G. Donizetti), A Heated Gambler (The Gambler, S. Prokofiev), Count Almaviva (Il barbiere di Siviglia, G. Rossini), The Simpleton (Boris Godunov, M. Musorgsky), Mozart (Mozart and Salieri, N. Rimsky-Korsakov), Alfred (Die Fledermaus, J. Strauss II), Beppe (Pagliacci, R. Leoncavallo), Maintop (Billy Budd, B. Britten), Father Mikhailo, Head Doctor (The Story of a Real Man, S. Prokofiev), Iskra (Mazepa, P. Tchaikovsky), Wounded, Traitor, Guest, Writer (Doctor Zhivago, A. Lubchenko), Policeman (The Nose, D. Shostakovich), 1^st knight (Parsifal, R. Wagner), Klevest (Khovanshchina, M. Musorgsky), Physician (The Fiery Angel, S. Prokofiev, concert performance).

Concert's repertoire includes tenors roles  St Cecilia Mass, C. Gounod.