Baritone
Alexey Zelenkov made his German debut in 2022, performing as Michonnet in Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur at Deutsche Oper am Rhein. During the 2022-2023 season, he returned to Düsseldorf as Scarpia Tosca and sang the roles of Amonasro Aida as and Ibn-Hakia Iolanta at Theater Kiel. He joined the ensemble at Deutsche Oper am Rhein in 2023, and has since performed notable roles there, including the title character in Verdi’s Nabucco, Sharpless Madama Butterfly, Germont La Traviata, Tonio I Pagliacci, and later this season Michele Il Tabarro and the title role in Gianni Schicchi.
In recent seasons, Alexey Zelenkov has made house debuts at Deutsche Oper Berlin as Bartolo Il Barbiere di Siviglia and at Staatstheater Karlsruhe and Aalto Theater Essen as Scarpia Tosca. He began the 2025/2026 season with a house debut at Staatstheater Hannover as Jago Otello. He also made his Italian debut as Nabucco at the Pavarotti Freni Theatre in Modena. He is set to return to Theater Kiel as Don Carlo di Vargas in a new production of La forza del destino.
As a leading baritone at the Novosibirsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre NOVAT since 2014, he has developed an extensive repertoire with title roles in Rigoletto, Falstaff, Bluebeard's Castle and Prince Igor, as well as Renato Un ballo in maschera, Amonasro Aida, Tonio I Pagliacci, Alfio Cavalleria rusticana, Scarpia Tosca, Marcello La Bohème, Escamillo Carmen, Tomsky The Queen of Spades, Shchelkalov Boris Godunov, Mizgir Snegurochka (Snow Maiden), Gryaznoi The Tsar's Bride, Baron Skupoi ryzar (The miserly Knight), Lanceotto Malatesta Francesca da Rimini, Tobias Mill La Cambiale di Matrimonio and Biterolf Tannhäuser.
Alexey Zelenkov has appeared as a guest in the title role of Rigoletto at the Bolshoi Theatre Moscow and the Stanislavsky Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre. He has performed Tomsky in Krasnoyarsk, as well as Scarpia, Renato, Marcello and Robert Iolanta at the Mikhailovsky Theatre St. Petersburg. In 2018 he toured South Korea with NOVAT. He obtained his diploma from the Novosibirsk State Conservatory in 2015 and won 2nd prize at the José Carreras Competition 2021 as well as 1st prize at the All-Russian National Competition 2014. For his distinguished performances he was awarded thrice the prestigious Onegin Prize and twice the Paradise Award.
