Didenko, Nikolay Alekseevich

Nikolai Didenko was born on March 1, 1976 in Moscow .

He graduated from the Moscow Choir College. A. V. Sveshnikov , children's music school. V.V. Stasova in the violin class. In 2001 he graduated from the Academy of Choral Art. V.Popova , in 2003 he graduated from the graduate school in the classroom of Professor Dmitry Vdovin ^[1] .

He performed with the Academic Boys Choir conducted by Victor Popov . In the late 90s, he worked as a choral conductor, regent, and together with the youth choir of the Patriarchal Compound repeatedly won first places in choral festivals of sacred music. ^[2] Years later, Nicholas repeatedly rose on the same stage with the famous choral chapels as a soloist - in particular, with the choir of the Sretensky Monastery. ^[3]

From 1994 to 1997 - artist of the vocal group of the Moscow Theater of the Lenin Komsomol .

From 2002 to 2003, he was a leading soloist of the Novaya Opera Theater, and performed roles in Eugene Onegin (Prince Gremin), Mozart and Salieri (Salieri), and Requiem by J. Verdi .

2003-2005 - soloist of Houston Grand Opera (USA) ^[4] , performed the parts in the performances of Turandot ^[5] , The Barber of Seville, The Magic Flute, Tosca, Julius Caesar ^[6] .

Since 2004, Nikolai Didenko represents the largest international agency, Asconas Holt (England). ^[7] From this moment begins the international career of Nikolai Didenko.

Over the years, he collaborated with the Washington National Opera, the Cologne Opera, the Royal Danish Opera, the New York City Opera, the Bastille Opera (Paris) and other world-famous opera houses ^[8] .

Since March 2013, Nikolai Didenko has been a guest soloist of the Bolshoi Theater in V. Bellini 's opera Somnambula (Count Rodolfo) ^[9] .

Creativity

Nikolai Didenko performed the roles in the operas Mozart and Salieri, Rigoletto, Eugene Onegin, Tosca, Julius Caesar, Madame Butterfly, The Barber of Seville, Turandot, The Magic Flute, and The Little Prince ”,“ Troubadour ”,“ Idomen ”,“ Romeo and Juliet ”,“ Cinderella ”,“ Trojans ”,“ Charity of Titus ”,“ Don Carlos ”,“ Masquerade Ball ”,“ Bohemia ”,“ Somnambulist ”, “Capulet and Montecchi”, “Aida”, “Norma”, “Turk in Italy”, “Falstaff”, “The Force of Fate”, “Simon Boccanegra”, “Don Juan”, “Boris Godunov”, world premiere of the opera “Lysistrata” and participated in concerts Performing Little Solemn Mass and Stabat Mater by Rossini; "Rayok", 13th and 14th symphonies of Shostakovich, 8th symphony of Mahler, Requiem and Mass of Mozart, "Stabat Mater" of Dvorak, Requiem of Verdi.

Over the years, he collaborated with famous contemporary singers: Ramon Vargas, Rene Fleming, Nikolai Giaurov, Mirella Freni, Edita Gruberova, Federica Von Stade, Vladimir Galuzin, Maria Guleghina, June Anderson, Brin Terfil, Matti Salminen, Massimo Jordano others; conducted by conductors Antoniello Allemandi, Patrick Summers, Edoardo Muller, Nello Santi, Marco Armillato, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Vladimir Spivakov, Rudolf Barshai, Mikhail Pletnev, Gennady Rozhdestvensky and others.

In 2017, he was awarded a Grammy as a member of the performers of K. Penderetsky's Dies Illa ^{[10] [11]} .

Charity

Since 2005, Nikolai Didenko has been the permanent artistic director of the White Steamboat charity festival. ^[12] The program is aimed at rehabilitation through art, teaching vocal and choral art, playing musical instruments for musically gifted children with disabilities, children from single-parent families, orphanages and boarding schools. It arose in the Far East in the Khabarovsk Territory, over the years it acquired an all-Russian scale.

Over the years the White Steamboat has existed, its pupils and graduates received a musical education in leading Russian educational institutions such as the Choir School Sveshnikov , Academy of Choral Art . V.Popova, GMUEDI, RAM them. The Gnesins and others took part in prestigious children's and youth competitions, participated in the Delphic Games , in the Junior Eurovision ^[13] , and, most importantly, found new families, guardians and got the opportunity to change their previous lives ^[14] .

The project is supported by the Academy of Choral Art . V.Popova. Among those who support and warmly speak of the “White Steamboat” are composer Alexandra Pakhmutova and poet Nikolai Dobronravov . ^[15]

Since the summer of 2005, the “White Steamboat”, led by Nikolai Didenko, conducted several voyages along the Amur River, a cruise along the Volga (in May 2012), gave concerts both in the Khabarovsk Territory and in Moscow (on the stage of the Palace on Yauza in 2011 ^{[16 ]} and at the Novaya Opera Theater in 2012 ^[17] ). In the summer of 2013, as the voyage of the ship "Vasily Poyarkov" in the Far East resumed, Nikolai Didenko, together with his pupils, again went on a musical cruise on the Amur. ^[18] Since 2014, with the cessation of passenger navigation, the project has become a land children's recreation camp.

• The page of the singer on the site of the Bolshoi Theater
• The output aria of Count Rodolfo staged by Somnambulist at the Bolshoi Theater
• Performance with children participating and graduates of the White Steamship project, A. N. Pakhmutova, the Youth Symphony Orchestra (conductor V. Valitov) on the stage of the Novaya Opera Theater on June 1, 2012
• A short list of performances in opera houses (by years) by Nikolai Didenko bass on ProfsOnStage.com website (English)
• Some reviews of Didenko’s acting on Musicalworld.com