Baykov
Born in Moscow Vladimir Baykov graduated from the Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology as a Cybernetic Engineer before beginning his vocal studies at the Prokofiev Opera Studio in Moscow. He joined Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Conservatory in 1996, graduating with diplomas in solo singing and teaching in 2001.
He has been prize winner of several prestigious competitions and was a scholarship holder of the Richard-Wagner-Association at the Bayreuth Festival.
Since 2015 Vladimir Baykov has been a member of the ensemble at the Hamburg State Opera. He has also appeared with the Finnish National Opera Helsinki, Théâtre Royal de La Monnaie in Brussels, Opera Vlaanderen Antwerp / Ghent, Gran Théâtre de Luxembourg, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, Teatro Colón Buenos Aires and others.
In 2021 he debuted at the Bolshoi Theatre as Angelotti (Tosca, premiere performances).
Boris Godunov (Boris Godunov) — Théâtre Royal de La Monnaie in Brussels, Staatstheater Darmstadt
Igor Svyatoslavich (Prince Igor) — Hamburg State Opera
Count Tomsky (The Queen of Spades) — Hamburg State Opera
Ruprecht (Prokofiev’s The Fiery Angel) — Teatro Colón Buenos Aires, Concertgebouw Amsterdam
Salieri (Rimsky-Korsakov’s Mozart and Salieri) — Lugano Festival, Turin
Kaspar (Der Freischütz) — Gran Théâtre de Luxembourg, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, Hamburg State Opera опера
Mephistophélès (Gounod’s Faust) — Hamburg State Opera
Wotan (Das Rheingold) — Hamburg State Opera
Wotan (Die Walküre) — Oper Leipzig, Tiroler Festspiele Erl
Gunther (Götterdämmerung) — Hamburg State Opera
Holländer (Der fliegende Holländer) — Theater Magdeburg
Klingsor (Parsifal) — Hamburg State Opera
Narbalin (Les Troyens) — Hamburg State Opera
Vodnik (Rusalka) — Finnish National Opera
Sandoval (Donizetti’s Le Duc d’Albe ) — Opera Vlaanderen Antwerp / Ghent
Bluebeard (Duke Bluebeard's Castle) — Finnish National Opera
Colline (La Boheme) — Finnish National Opera
Peter (Hänsel und Gretel) — Hamburg State Opera
Vladimir Baykov’s concert engagements include performances at the Gasteig Philharmonic Hall, Munich, Frankfurt's Alte Oper, Berlin's Konzerthaus, at the Berlin Philharmonic, as well as several appearances at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam.
Kent Nagano, Hartmut Haenchen, Kirill Petrenko, Jaap van Zweden, Gianandrea Noseda, Paolo Carignani, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Valery Gergiev, Mikhail Tatarnikov, Gustav Kuhn, Antonello Allemandi, Alan Curtis, Vassily Sinaisky, Leif Segerstam, Stefan Soltesz, Tugan Sokhiev and Mikko Franck are among the conductors with whom he has worked, and he has given recitals in Russia, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland and Japan.
Louis Spohr’s Die letzten Dinge for Capriccio Records (conducted by Bruno Weil),
Donizetti’s Le Duc d’Albe (under the baton of Paolo Carignani),
Jan van Gilse’s Eine Lebensmesse (conducted by Markus Stenz),
Carl Maria von Weber’s Der Freischütz (conducted by Laurence Equilbey).