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Alexey Kudrya

Alexey Kudrya (born 1982) is a rising operatic lyric tenor star from Russia. According to Neue Stimmen, Kudrya grew up in a very musical family: his father, Vladimir Leonidovich Kudrya, is a professor for music and his mother teaches the flute. Kudrya was taught by his father at the Russian Academy of Music in Moscow and graduated in 2004 as flautist and conductor.He began his musical career playing flute. As a flute player he was laureate of several internationals contests. His voice career began with the international competition Romance 2003 in Moscow, where he won the first prize and the special award Potential of the Nation. He still plays flute on stage, for example, when he performs Prince Tamino in The Magic Flute opera by Mozart.Noting on his tenor style, Benjamin Ivry in The New York Sun commented: "Russia's Alexey Kudrya, who has won medals in several vocal competitions, has a refined lyric voice ideal for recordings and smaller opera houses."His first engagements in his native Russia took him to the Stanislavsky Theatre in Moscow, also known as Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre, as Guest Opera Soloist, where he sang Prince Gvidon in Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tale of Tsar Saltan, Nemorino in L'elisir d'amore and Ferrando in Così fan tutte. At the Stanislavsky Theatre he also studied the parts of Alfredo Germont (La Traviata) and Lensky (Eugene Onegin).In 2006, he also sang under the baton of Teodor Currentzis in concert performances in Moscow and Novosibirsk to mark the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth.CommandOpera says that "Alexey Kudrya is the most exciting Russian Tenor on the planet today: his vocal instrument positively ‘weeps’ in the most Italianate fashion."