Vasily Khoroshev is one of the most perspective countertenors of today. Khoroshev was born in Russia in 1986. Since 2005 he has been studying at the Moscow state conservatory of P.I. Tchaikovsky, class of professor Peter Skusnichenko. The young singer has already won a large number of international musical competition awards, including the first prize at the III International competition Modern art and education.<<cut>>
Khoroshev’s debuted in October, 2006 as Cherubino in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro (Bolshoi hall, Moscow). In summer 2010 he performed the part of the Spirit in the opera Dido and Aeneas under the direction of M. Gabriele Garido on the stage of the Lausanne Opera House. In autumn of the same year Vasily Khoroshev successfully performed the part of Arthemis in Hans Werner Henze’s Phaedra (The German opera to Rhine/Duisburg). The innovative staging of Henze’s opera came as part of the Neue Musik für eine Metropole Henze’s project (EU-Initiative Kulturhauptstadt Europas: RUHR.2010). Khoroshev’s touching interpretation of the Greek goddess was highly appreciated in the Opernglas magazine. “The soft countertenor of the 24-year-old Vasily Khoroshev provides the Artemis goddess a characteristic profile between sensual travesties, full of greatness and the quarreling mannish woman from the lowest class” (Opernglas 1/2011).
During the 2011/12 theatrical season Khoroshev performed the part of Cleone in the recording of Handel’s opera Alessandro (Decca Classics). Besides, he cooperated with the highly innovative company La Fura dels Baus and took part in a concert tour in their adaptation of Carmina Burana.
Vasily Khoroshev is also to perform the part of Cleone in the 2012-2013 season in theatrical and concert productions under the direction of George Petrou. There, Khoroshev will collaborate with the world famous opera stars such as Max Emanuel Cencic, Vivica Genaux, Julia Lezhneva, Xavier Sabata and Rosemarie Joshua. Moreover, performances with all the above mentioned celebrities will take place at Megaron (Athens), at the Théâtre de Versailles, at the Salle Pleyel and at the Theater of Vienna. In addition, his performances are also scheduled for Handel’s Festival (Halle) and the Festival of George Enesco (Bucharest).
Khoroshev is debute in the Frankfurt opera in the premier of Das Spiel von Seele und Körper (Rappresentazione di anima e di corpo). Composer Klaus Lang incorporated several new music additions into the text of the Frankfurt opera’s part of the late medieval mystery of Cavalieris and thus created a careful combination of the past and the present. Khoroshev will also master the Megabise part in the work Artaserse during the season 2012-13.
Besides, in the coming season Vasily Khoroshev will continue his successful cooperation with La Fura and will participate again in Carmina Burana. Several concerts in Istanbul are planned under the direction of Sascha Goetzel for autumn 2012, and in spring 2013 Pedro Hallfter will be conducting during Khoroshev’s performance of the part of the Swan.