Wonderful Carnival

Alexey Bogorad was born in 1979 in Moscow into the family of conductor Vladimir Bogorad. He graduated with honours from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory where he majored in clarinet with Prof. Vladimir Sokolov (completed in 2001) as well as in opera and symphonic conducting with Prof. Gennady Rozhdestvensky (completed in 2009). 

Alexey Bogorad won the 2nd prize at Stefan Turchak International Conducting Competition (Kiev, 2010) and the 1st prize at Lovro von Matačić International Conducting Competition (Zagreb, 2011).

He was a clarinet soloist of the Bolshoi Theater Orchestra from 1997 to 2011, and also a member of the Russian National Orchestra led by Mikhail Pletnev from 2001 to 2011. 

In 2011–2012, Alexey Bogorad was a conductor of the Evgeny Svetlanov State Symphony Orchestra. Since 2012, he has been a conductor of the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia, and in 2015 he also became a guest conductor of the Yekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theater (now Ural Opera Ballet). 

As a conductor and stage director, he has staged a few Bolshoi productions including The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra by Britten, (2012), L'Enfant et les Sortiléges by Maurice Ravel (2013), Moidodyr by Efrem Podgaits (world premiere), Marco Spada by Daniel Auber, and Orlando to music by Edward Elgar, Philip Glass, Lera Auerbach and Elena Katz-Chernin (2021). 

Alexey Bogorad was also the musical director of several production, including The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky in Japan (2011), L'Histoire du soldat by Igor Stravinsky at the Drama Studio of the Russian Theater Institute (2013), Le Corsaire by Adolphe Adam and Romeo and Juliet by Prokofiev at Teatro di San Carlo in Naples (2014 and 2016), La Bayadère by Ludwig Minkus at the National Theater in Belgrade (2015), Giselle by Adolphe Adam and The Naiad and the Fisherman by Cesare Pugni at the Ural Opera Ballet in Yekaterinburg (2017). 

The conductor’s extensive stage repertoire also includes Don Giovanni by Mozart, The Flying Dutchman by Wagner, Faust by Gounod, Rigoletto by Verdi, Carmen by Bizet, La Boheme, Tosca and Madama Butterfly by Puccini, Wozzeck by Alban Berg, Ruslan and Lyudmila by Glinka, Iolanta, Eugene Onegin and The Queen of Spades by Tchaikovsky, Boris Godunov by Mussorgsky, The Tsar’s Bride and May Night by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, The Fiery Angel by Sergey Prokofiev, and numerous ballets. 

Alexey Bogorad has appeared with the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia, Russian National Orchestra, State Academic Chamber Orchestra of Russia, Academic Symphony Orchestra of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Society, Mariinsky Orchestra (as part of the G20 Summit in St. Petersburg), the Mikhailovsky Theater Orchestra, Ural Philharmonic Orchestra, Tatarstan National Symphony Orchestra, Academic Symphony Orchestras of Rostov and Volgograd, and Safonov Academic Symphony Orchestra. In addition, he continues to cooperate closely with the Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra that he conducted at the 15th International Tchaikovsky Competition in June 2015.