Nikolai Alekseevich Didenko - Russian opera singer, bass. Owner of a rare basso cantante - lyrical "melodious" bass. In addition, he is the head of the White Steamer charitable program.
Brief biography and education
He was born on the first day of spring 1976 in the capital of our homeland, Moscow. Since 1982, he began to receive education at the Moscow Choir School named after V. I. A. V. Sveshnikova. In addition, he studied at the music school. V. V. Stasov. Here the singer learned to play the violin.
In 1996 he entered the Academy of Choral Art. V. Popov. In 2003 he became a graduate student of this educational institution. He was a student of the teacher Dmitry Vdovin.
He made his first introductions on stage as part of the Academic Boys' Choir under the direction of Viktor Popov.
Career and creativity
Nikolai Didenko was a choral conductor, choir director, and together with the children's and youth choir of the Patriarchal Compound, he repeatedly won choir festivals of sacred music in the late 90s. A few years later, he became a soloist of the famous choir chapels, including the choir of the Sretensky Monastery.
From 2002 to 2003, Nikolai worked as a leading soloist at the Novaya Opera theater, performed roles in Eugene Onegin (Prince Gremin), Mozart and Salieri (Salieri), and Requiem by G. Verdi.
Then, in 2003, the singer continues to develop his career in the United States. He worked as a soloist at the Houston Grand Opera until 2005. Here Didenko managed to take part in such performances as Turandot, The Barber of Seville, The Magic Flute, Tosca, Julius Caesar.
In 2004 he worked with the largest international agency Asconas Holt (Great Britain). From that time on, Nikolai Alekseevich began performing in various countries.
During his multifaceted career, Didenko managed to collaborate with the Washington National Opera, the Cologne Opera, the Royal Danish Opera, the New York City Opera, Opera Bastille (France) and many other popular theaters.
In the spring of 2013 Nikolai became a guest soloist of the Bolshoi Theater in V. Bellini's opera La Sonnambula (Count Rodolfo).
The singer has appeared in the operas Mozart and Salieri, Rigoletto, Eugene Onegin, Tosca, Julius Caesar, Madame Butterfly, The Barber of Seville, Turandot, The Magic Flute, The Little Prince "," Troubadour "," Idomeneo "," Romeo and Juliet "," Cinderella "," Trojans "," Mercy of Titus "," Don Carlos "," Masquerade Ball "," La Boheme "," Somnambula "," Capulet " and Montague "," Aida "," Norma "," A Turk in Italy "," Falstaff "," The Force of Destiny "," Simon Boccanegra "," Don Juan "," Boris Godunov ", the world premiere of the opera" Lysistrata "and participated performing Little Solemn Mass and Rossini's Stabat Mater in concerts; "Paradise", 13 and 14 Shostakovich's symphonies, 8 Mahler's symphony, Mozart's Requiem and Masses, Dvorak's Stabat Mater, Verdi's Requiem.
In addition, it is worth canceling the collaboration of Nikolai Didenko with famous singers of our time at different periods of time: Ramon Vargas, Rene Fleming, Nikolai Gyaurov, Mirella Freni, Edita Gruberova, Federica Von Stade, Vladimir Galuzin, Maria Guleghina, June Anderson, Brin Salmin Terfilm, Matti, Massimo Giordano, Laura Claycomb and others; conducted by Antoniello Allemandi, Patrick Summers, Edoardo Müller, Nello Santi, Marco Armiglato, Vladimir Fedoseev, Vladimir Spivakov, Rudolf Barshai, Mikhail Pletnev, Gennady Rozhdestvensky.
In the winter of 2017, the choral recording Penderecki Conducts Penderecki, Volume 1, in which Didenko participated, was nominated and received a Grammy award in the Best Choral Performance category.
Charity
In 2004, the singer became the artistic director of the White Steamer charity program. It is still today. This program is engaged in rehabilitation, teaching vocals, playing musical instruments, working in a choir for musically gifted children with disabilities, children from single-parent families, orphanages and boarding schools.
At the moment, the program is operating throughout the country, but originated in the Far East in the Khabarovsk Territory.
