Background
OKHOTNIKOV, Nikolai was born on July 5, 1937 in Glubokoye, Kazakh Republic. Son of Philisophy Y. Okhotnikov and K. A. Okhotnikov.
OKHOTNIKOV, Nikolai was born on July 5, 1937 in Glubokoye, Kazakh Republic. Son of Philisophy Y. Okhotnikov and K. A. Okhotnikov.
Leningrad Conservatoire (pupil of I. I. Pleshakov).
Kochubey in Mazeppa, Rene in Iolanta, the Miller in Rusalka, Susanin, Dosifey in Mussorgsky’s Khovanshchina, Kutuzov in Prokofiev’s War and Peace, Philip II in Don Carlos, Heinrich in Lohengrin, Gremin in Eugene Onegin, Boris Godunov and Pimen in Boris Godunov.Soloist with Leningrad Concert Orchestra. With Maly Theatre, Leningrad 1967-1971, with Kirov Opera since 1971. Teacher of singing at Leningrad Conservatoire since 1976.
Grand Prix, Barcelona 1972, People"s Artist of Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics 1983.
Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1974-1990.
Married Larkina Tamara Georgievna in 1973.