The Russian bass Alexei Tanovitski has won prizes at a number of major competitions like the Elena Obraztsova International Competition and the Rimsky-Korsakov International Competition of Young Opera Singers. In 1999 he became a member of the ensemble at the Mariinsky Theatre, where he has sung more than 60 roles, including Boris Godunov, Ivan the Terrible, Kochubey (Mazeppa), Zaccaria (Nabucco), Padre Guardiano (La forza del destino), Hagen (Götterdämmerung), Daland (The Flying Dutchman) and Raimondo (Rienzi). He has performed at the great opera houses of the world such as the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala Milan, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Théâtre du Châtelet, Opéra Bastille, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, the Teatro São Carlos, the Teatro Real Madrid and Deutsche Oper. He has also made guest appearances at festivals in France (Aix-en-Provence), the Netherlands (Diaghilev), Germany (Baden-Baden), Finland (Helsinki, Mikkeli) and at the Moscow Easter Festival. Alexei Tanovitski made his Metropolitan Opera debut in the Ring Cycle as Wotan under the baton of Valery Gergiev. Other celebrated conductors under whom he has sung include K. Nagano, G. Rozhdestvensky, V. Jurowski, G. Noseda, X. Zhang, Y. Basmet, P. Järvi, T. Sokhiev and M. Shostakovich. Alexei Tanovitski has given concerts worldwide, singing at venues like the Auditorium di Milano, the Salle Pleyel, the Palau de la Música (Barcelona), the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall (Moscow), Suntory Hall, Bunka Kaikan (Tokyo), the Hollywood Bowl, the Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall.