| Alexey Kudrya | |
| Birth Name: | Alexei Kudrya |
| Birth Date: | Soviet Union |
| Occupation: | Flute player, tenor singer, conductor |
| Years Active: | 2004–present |
Alexey Kudrya (born 1982) is a Russian operatic lyric tenor. He began his musical career playing flute.
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."[1] 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.
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.[2]
CommandOpera[3] said in 2010 that "Alexey Kudrya is the most exciting Russian Tenor on the planet today: his vocal instrument positively ‘weeps’ in the most Italianate fashion."[4]
In October 2005, Kudrya became a laureate of the international competition Neue Stimmen (2nd prize).[5] In 2006, he debuted in Europe singing Lensky's aria from Eugene Onegin at the International Opera Singers Competition of Galina Vishnevskaya (2nd prize).
In 2009, he won first prize in Plácido Domingo’s Operalia Competition held in Hungary, and as well as the Special Prize offered by the Hungarian State Opera.[6] In the same competition, the first prize award for soprano was Julia Novikova, also from Russia.[7]
In the 2010/11 season, he debuted at the Vienna State opera, singing Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia in December/January.