Countertenor
Artem
Krutko
Artem Krutko

Graduated from the Chelyabinsk State Academy of Culture and Arts (class of Professor Lyudmila Borovik) in 2007. Trained at the Opéra de Lyon under the renowned French tenor Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (2011).

In 2004-2013, since 2019 he has been a soloist at the Glinka Chelyabinsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre.

In 2013-2015 — a soloist with the Theater und Orchester Heidelberg. In 2015-2019 — a soloist at the Kolobov Novaya Opera Theatre of Moscow.

Made his debut at the Mariinsky Theatre in 2008 in the premiere of Alexander Smelkov’s The Brothers Karamazov. As a guest soloist he also performed the role of Oberon in the premiere of a new production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2011; for that role he received a nomination for Russia’s Golden Mask National Theatre Award in 2012). Has sung at the world premiere of Alexander Raskatov’s Eclipse (Nicholas I; in concert performance, 2018) and at the premiere of a new production of The Snow Maiden (Lel; 2020).

Has appeared at the Oper Bonn, Schlosstheater Schwetzingen, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Opéra Royal Château de Versailles, Mikhailovsky Theatre, Moscow State Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre among other venues. Has performed recitals in towns and cities throughout Russia as well as in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Belarus.

Has been a participant in the Händel-Festspiele Karlsruhe, the Internationale Gluck-Opern-Festspiele in Nuremberg, the Savonlinna Opera Festival, the Fyodor Chaliapin International Opera Festival, the Gavrilin International Music Festival, the Bach-fest in Yekaterinburg, the Stars of the White Nights festival, the New Horizons festival and the Irina Arkhipova Presents… festival among others.

Awards

3rd prize at the 21st International Glinka Competition of Vocalists

2005, Chelyabinsk

State Prize of the Chelyabinsk Region

2008

Golden Lyre prize 

2009, Chelyabinsk
Repertoire
2024
Repertoire

Siébel (Faust by Gounod)
Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro)
Milovzor (The Queen of Spades)
Fyodor (Boris Godunov)
Ratmir (Ruslan and Lyudmila)
Vanya (A Life for the Tsar)
Indian Merchant (Sadko)
Spirit (Dido and Aeneas)
Akhnaten (Akhnaten by Glass)
Eustazio (Rinaldo by Handel)
Alcide (Alcide by Bortnyansky)
Oreste (Ifigenia in Tauride by Traetta)
Epafo (Fetonte by Jommelli)
Adriano (Adriano in Siria by Pergolesi)
Giulio Cesare (Giulio Cesare by Handel)
Hamor (Jeptha by Handel)
Orfeo (Orfeo ed Euridice by Gluck)
Prince Orlofsky (Die Fledermaus)
tenor part in Orff’s Carmina Burana

In concert: solo alto cantatas by Vivaldi and Bach, the alto parts in Handel’s The Messiah, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater and Mozart’s Requiem and the tenor part in Bach’s Kaffeekantate.

Has worked with conductors including Valery Gergiev, Eduard Grach, Anton Grishanin, Pavel Smelkov, Anton Sharoev, Adik Abdurakhmanov, Christian Kabitz, Wolfgang Katschner, Giancarlo De Lorenzo, Fabio Mastrangelo, Andreas Spering, Kirill Karabits, Gianluca Capuano.

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