17 Facts About Alexander Vedernikov

Alexander Alexandrovich Vedernikov was a Russian conductor.

Alexander Vedernikov held major posts with the Bolshoi Theatre the Odense Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Danish Opera, and the Mikhailovsky Theatre.

Alexander Vedernikov grew up with two siblings in a small apartment.

Alexander Vedernikov worked as a conductor in the Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre from 1988 to 1990.

Alexander Vedernikov was an assistant conductor to Vladimir Fedoseyev at the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio from 1988 to 1995.

Alexander Vedernikov became music director of the Bolshoi Theatre in 2001, where he worked on modernising the company.

Alexander Vedernikov conducted the first new production of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov since 1948.

Alexander Vedernikov conducted at the house the first production of Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur in 2002, Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina, Puccini's Turandot, the original version of Glinka's Ruslan and Ludmila, the first production of Prokofiev's The Fiery Angel in 2004, the first Russian performance of the original version of Wagner's The Flying Dutchman and Verdi's Falstaff.

Alexander Vedernikov led productions of Prokofiev's War and Peace and his ballet Cinderella.

Alexander Vedernikov had a contract with the company until 2010, but in July 2009 resigned on the first day of the theater's summer tour, citing disagreements with its management.

Alexander Vedernikov made his Covent Garden debut in 1996, where he conducted Prokofiev's Cinderella and Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.

Alexander Vedernikov conducted at the Komische Oper Berlin Smetana's The Bartered Bride, Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades, Salome by Richard Strauss and Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen.

Alexander Vedernikov conducted a double bill of Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana and Leoncavollo's Pagliacci at the Opernhaus Zurich in 2011, and made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, again with Eugene Onegin.

Alexander Vedernikov became chief conductor of the Odense Symphony Orchestra in 2009, with an initial three-year contract, which was extended to 2014.

Alexander Vedernikov concluded his Odense tenure in 2018, remaining an honorary conductor.

Alexander Vedernikov died on 29 October 2020, from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia.

Alexander Vedernikov recorded commercially for such labels as Pentatone, Hyperion and Naive.