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The Russian counter-tenor, Artyom (Artem) Krutko (Russian: Артём Крутько), sang in his early years in a school choir and studied accordion in a music school. In 2001 his family moved to the city of Chelyabinsk (Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia). From 2001 to 2007, he studied voice as a counter-tenor at the Chelyabinsk State Academy of Culture and Arts under the guidance of Associate Professor Lyudmila Borovik. In 2011, he trained at the Studio de l’Opéra de Lyon in France under the renowned French tenor Jean-Paul Fouchécourt.
In 2004, being a third year student at the Academy, Artyom Krutko was accepted to the Chelyabinsk State Opera and Ballet Theatre named after M. Glinka as a trainee. On the stage of this theater he made his operatic debut as Cherubino in W.A. Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro and less than in a year became a full member of the theater’s opera troupe, appeared there until 2013 and has continued to work since 2019. From 2013 to 2015 he was a soloist with the Theater und Orchester Heidelberg (Germany), and from 2015 to 2019 he was a soloist at the Kolobov Novaya Opera Theatre of Moscow. Has appeared at the Mikhailovsky Theatre and the Moscow State Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre in Saint Petersburg, the theaters of opera and ballet in Cheboksary, Chelyabinsk, Kazan, Krasnoyarsk, Ufa and Yekaterinburg (Russia), Theater Bonn (Bonn, Germany), Schlosstheater Schwetzingen (Schwetzingen, Germany), Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe (Karlsruhe, Germany), and the Opéra royal du Château de Versailles, among other venues. He also sang in concerts and recitals in Russia (Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Arkhangelsk, Astrakhan, Cheboksary, Chelyabinsk, Dubna, Kazan, Krasnoyarsk, Kurgan, Magnitogorsk, Oktyabrsky, Samara, Ufa, Vologda, Yekaterinburg) and abroad - in Belarus, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Netherlands.
Since 2008, Artyom Krutko has also collaborated as a guest with the Mariinsky Theatre (Saint Petersburg, Russia): he made his debut at the there in 2008 as The Voice of Christ in the premiere of Alexander Smelkov’s opera The Brothers Karamazov; in 2011 he performed the role of Oberon in the premiere of a new production of Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night’s Dream; for that role he received a nomination for Russia’s Golden Mask National Theatre Award in 2012; he has sung Nicholas I in the world premiere of Alexander Raskatov’s opera Eclipse (2018) and Lel in the premiere of a new production of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's The Snow Maiden (2020).
His repertoire also includes: Siébel in Charles Gounod's Faust; Cherubino in W.A. Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro; Milovzor in The Queen of Spades; the Prince in by Spadavecchia's Cinderella; the Golden Cockerel in Podgaits' The Magic of Lukomorye; Fyodor in Boris Godunov; Ratmir in M. Glinka's Ruslan and Lyudmila, Vanya in M. Glinka's A Life for the Tsar, an Indian Merchant in Sadko, the Spirit in H. Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Akhnaten in P. Glass' Akhnaten; Eustazio in George Frideric Handel's Rinaldo; Alcide in Bortnyansky's Alcide, Oreste in T. Traetta's Ifigenia in Tauride; Oreste in I. Kálmán's operetta Gräfin Mariza (the additional piece Orpheum); Epafo in Jommelli's Fetonte; Adriano in Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's Adriano in Siria; Giulio Cesare in G.F. Handel's Giulio Cesare; Hamor in G.F. Handel's oratorio Jeptha (staged version); Orfeo in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice and Prince Orlofsky in J. Strauss's operetta Die Fledermaus, and a number of parts in children’s operas by M. Minkov, T. Shkerbina, E. Podgaits and A. Spadavecchia, among others
In concert, Artyom Krutko has performed solo alto cantatas by Antonio Vivaldi (Cessate, omai cessate, Stabat Mater) and J.S. Bach (Geist und Seele wird verwirret BWV 35), the alto parts in G.F. Handel's oratorio The Messiah, G.B. Pergolesi's Stabat Mater and W.A. Mozart's Requiem and the tenor part in J.S. Bach’s Kaffeekantate. (BWV 211), as well as the tenor part in Orff’s Carmina Burana.
Artyom Krutko performed with orchestras under such conductors as Adik Abdurakhmanov, Vladislav Belinsky, Wiktor Bockman, Sergey Ferulyov, Valery Gergiev, Eduard Grach, Anton Grishanin, Christian Kabitz, Roman Kaloshin, Wolfgang Katschner, Giancarlo di Lorenzo, Azat Maksutov, Fabio Mastrangelo, Olga Nesterova, Oleg Romanenko, Anton Sharoyev, Mikhail Sinkevich, Pavel Smelkov, Andreas Spering, and also with organists Vladimir Khomyakov, Taras Baginets, Vladislav Murtazin, Konstantin Volostnov and Lyudmila Kamelina.
Artyom Krutko has been a participant at many Russian music festivals, among which are the Fyodor Chaliapin International Opera Festival in Kazan, International Opera Festival “Irina Arkhipova Presents” (Chelyabinsk), Russian Festival of Performing Arts “The Golden Mask” (Saint Petersburg), International Gavrilin Music Festival (Vologda), New Horizons Contemporary Music Festival (Saint Petersburg), International Opera Festival named after Maksim Mikhaylov (Cheboksary), International Festival of Vocal Art named after Valeria Barsova and Maria Maksakova (Astrakhan), International Bach Festival “Bach-Fest” (Yekaterinburg), International Opera Festival “Star Parade at the Opera House” (Krasnoyarsk), Stars of the White Nights Festival (Saint Petersburg), International Opera Festival named after Fyodor Shalyapin (Kazan), International Festival “Denis Matsuyev Presents” (Chelyabinsk), Saint Petersburg International Festival “Opera for Everyone” (Saint Petersburg), and the Festival dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Yekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theatre (Yekaterinburg). He also sung at the Händel-Festspiele Karlsruhe (Germany), Internationale Gluck-Opern-Festspiele in Nuremberg (Germany), Savonlinna Opera Festival (Finland), among others.
In 2005 Artyom Krutko received the 3rd Prize at the 21st International Competition for Vocalists named after Mikhail Glinka (Chelyabinsk). In 2006 he was awarded with the diploma of the Regional Festival of Professional Theatres “Stage 2006” for his performance as Milovzor in The Queen of Spades by P. Tchaikovsky (Chelyabinsk). In 2008 he received the State Prize of the Chelyabinsk Oblast in the Musical Art nomination (Chelyabinsk) and in 2009 he became the Golden Lyre Prize laureate (Chelyabinsk).. |
