(Credit: Marco Borggreve) Famed Russian conductor Alexander Vedernikov has died at the age of 56, after having been diagnosed with COVID-19. Vedernikov died on Friday, Oct. 30 after being put on a ventilator for few days following the diagnosis. Born in Moscow, Vedernikov was the son of the bass Alexander Filipovich Vedernikov and Natalia Nikolaevna Gureeva. The conductor went on {…}
Moscow-born conductor Alexander Vedernikov will be starting off the 2019-2020 opera season proudly wearing his new title of Music Director and Principal Conductor of St. Petersburg’s Mikhailovsky Theatre. He is a graduate of the Moscow Conservatory, and the son of famous Russian bass Alexander Filipovich Vedernikov and organist Natalia Gureeva. Vedernikov’s first challenge in this new role will be, according {…}
The Bolshoi Theatre has announced the death of Alexander Vedernikov. The company announced that the bass died at the age of 90 after being a household name with the company throughout the second half of the 20th century. Throughout his career the bass won numerous awards including the World Festival of Youth and Students (2nd Prize, 1953), the Robert Schumann International {…}