On May 28, 2022, during the XXX Stars of the White Nights Festival, Vyacheslav Vasilyev, a baritone soloist of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre, first appeared as Napoléon in Sergei Prokofiev’s War and Peace at the New Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre.
He performed together with soloists of the Mariinsky Theatre such as Vladimir Moroz, Yekaterina Goncharova, Sergei Skorokhodov, Svetlana Karpova, Ekaterina Krapivina, Alexander Trofimov, Elena Vitman, Mikhail Kit, Natalia Yevstafieva, Yuri Vlasov, and Gleb Periazev. The baton was held by maestro Valery Gergiev.
Vyacheslav Vasilyev’s first appearance at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg took place in May 2018, when the soloist successfully debuted as Giorgio Germont in Giuseppe Verdi’s La traviata.
In May 2019, when the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre was on tour, Vyacheslav Vasilyev performed the role of Grigory Gryaznoi in Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride at the Zaryadye Concert Hall in Moscow and at the New Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg. The production of this one of the best-known Russian operas staged by Vyacheslav Starodubtsev was a success in Vladivostok a year earlier.
At the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre, the singer performs title baritone roles such as his recent debuts as the boyar Shaklovity in Mussorgsky’s Khovanshchina and as Sharpless in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly.
