Vladimir Vasilyevich Galouzine (, Vladimir Galuzin, ), born June 11, 1956, is a Russian tenor. He has performed in such Russian operas as The Queen of Spades, Boris Godunov and Khovanshchina and has performed the lead tenor roles in Italian operas including Madama Butterfly, Otello, Tosca, Aida, and Manon Lescaut.
Galouzine was born in Rubtsovsk, Soviet Union, a town near Novosibirsk. In 1981, after graduating from the Novosibirsk Conservatory, he joined the Novosibirsk Opera.
From 1990 to 2012 he worked regularly with the Mariinsky Opera under Valery Gergiev. His first leading role with the company was the title role in VerdiâÂÂs Otello in 1991. In 1993, he debuted as Hermann in Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades, a role which he has reprised several times in both Russian and French, and of which he is considered the world's leading exponent. He has also performed the title roles in VerdiâÂÂs Don Carlo and Rimsky-KorsakovâÂÂs Sadko, Radames in Verdi's Aïda, Calaf in PucciniâÂÂs Turandot, Des Grieux in Puccini's Manon Lescaut, Cavaradossi in Puccini's Tosca, Alexey in ProkofievâÂÂs The Gambler, Sergey in ShostakovichâÂÂs Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Khovansky in Mussorgsky's Khovanschina, Canio in LeoncavalloâÂÂs I Pagliacci.
He has performed at most of the world's leading theaters, concert halls and festivals, including the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Los Angeles Opera, and the Lyric Opera of Chicago in the United States; London's Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in the United Kingdom; Milan's Teatro alla Scala; Venice's La Fenice, the Teatro Verdi in Trieste, the Teatro Comunale di Bologna as well as Florence's Teatro Comunale; the Vienna State Opera in Austria; the Opéra National (Bastille) and Théâtre de Chatelet, both in Paris, as well as ToulouseâÂÂs Théâtre de Capitole and the Marseille Opera in France; MadridâÂÂs Teatro Real and BarcelonaâÂÂs Grand Teatre del Liceu in Spain; both the Mariinsky Theater in Saint Petersburg and the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, Russia; AmsterdamâÂÂs De Nederlandse Opera in the Netherlands; the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Cologne Opera and the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden in Germany; the New National Theater in Tokyo, Japan; the Israeli Opera; and the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In addition, he has performed at the Salzburg Festival, Bregenz and Edinburgh Festivals and WashingtonâÂÂs Kennedy Center; London's Royal Albert Hall; the Chorégies d'Orange and the Arena di Verona.
He has worked with such renowned conductors as Valery Gergiev, Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Muti, Zubin Mehta, Seiji Ozawa, Michel Plasson, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Mstislav Rostropovich and Michail Jurowski amongst many others.
In 2007, Galouzine was appointed a People's Artist of Russia. In 2008, he received an honorary doctorate from the National University of Music Bucharest.
Vladimir married soprano Nataliya Tymchenko 9 June 2009.