Tenor
Vasily
Gafner
Vasily Gafner

Born in Kerch. In 2003 graduated from the choral and conducting faculty, in 2007 — from the vocal faculty of the Kazan State Conservatory n. a. N. G. Zhiganov.

In 2007–10 studied at the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre.

In 2010 was accepted into the troupe of the Boris Pokrovsky Chamber Musical Theatre. Since 2018 has been a soloist of the Boris Pokrovsky Chamber Stage of the Bolshoi Theatre.

Repertoire
2024
2023
2022
Repertoire on the Historic Stage

A slave (Salome)

Chekalinsky (The Queen of Spades)

Repertoire on the New Stage

Spoletta (Tosca)

Odoardo (Ariodante)

Prince Sinodal’s Courier (Rubinstein’s The Demon)

Repertoire on the Chamber Stage

Torquemada (L’heure espagnole)

Second Cerimoniere (Il Re by U. Giordano)

Fenkal (Askold’s Grave)

The Intendant (Linda di Chamounix)

Mr Ford (Falstaff, ossia Le tre burle)

Romeo (Maddalena by S. Prokofiev)

Pyotr Fyodorovich (The Nose)

Albazar (Il turco in Italia)

Hans Scholl (Weiße Rose (White Rose) by U. Zimmermann)

Bobchinsky (The Government Inspector by V. Dashkevich)

Clem/Alfred (The Little Sweep)

First Notary (La Périchole)

Kolya (One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by A. Tchaikovsky)

Tom Rakewell (The Rake’s Progress)

Herald (Servilia)

Ecclitico (Il mondo della luna)

Rinuccio (Gianni Schicchi)

Don Gomez (Die drei Pintos by C. M. von Weber — G. Mahler)

The Impressario (Der Schauspieldirektor)

First Priest (Die Zauberflöte)

Iron Age, Second Senator, Balthazar (The Rostov Mystery by D. Rostovsky)

An Office, Scaramuccio (Ariadne auf Naxos)

Nathanael (Lazarus, oder Die Feier der Auferstehung by F. Schubert — E. Denisov)

Maliban (Danilov, the Violist by A. Tchaikovsky)

Clot (Titius Flawless by A. Manotskov)

Schoolmaster (The Cunning Little Vixen by L. Janacek)

Idomeneo (Idomeneo)

Also in his repertoire

Lensky (Eugene Onegin)

Belmonte (Die Entführung aus dem Serail)

Don Calloandro (La Molinara)

Faust (Faust)

Lykov (The Tsar’s Bride)

Duke (Rigoletto

Participated in the Festival of Music and Theatre “Novoye peredvizhnichestvo” (Krasnoyarsk, Zelenogorsk), the International Festival of Arts “Russian Music in the Baltics” (Kaliningrad), toured in Mexico, Germany and Poland. 

General partner of the Bolshoi Theatre — insurance company «Ingosstrakh»
Privileged sponsor of the Bolshoi Theatre — Tinkoff Bank
Privileged partner of the Bolshoi Theatre — GUM