Alexey Zelenkov has been an ensemble soloist with Deutsche Oper am Rhein since 2023.

In the 2026/27 season, Zelenkov appears at Deutsche Oper am Rhein as Giorgio Germont La traviata, Scarpia Tosca, Sharpless Madama Butterfly, Count di Luna  Il trovatore and Enrico Lucia di Lammermoor. He is also set to make his role debut in the title role of Verdi’s Macbeth, with performances at Teatro Comunale di Modena Pavarotti-Freni, Teatro Municipale Valli in Reggio Emilia and Teatro Comunale di Ferrara Claudio Abbado. Further engagements include his role debut as Le Grand Prêtre de Dagon in Samson et Dalila at Teatro Comunale di Bologna.

In May 2022, Zelenkov made his German debut as Michonnet in a new production of Adriana Lecouvreur at Deutsche Oper am Rhein.

His repertoire includes the title roles in Rigoletto, Falstaff, Nabucco, Prince Igor, Aleko and Gianni Schicchi, as well as Giorgio Germont La traviata, Renato Un ballo in maschera, Amonasro Aida, Scarpia Tosca, Tonio Pagliacci, Alfio Cavalleria rusticana, Marcello La bohème, Sharpless Madama Butterfly, Escamillo Carmen, Tomsky The Queen of Spades, Ibn-Hakia Iolanta, Mizgir The Snow Maiden, Grigory Gryaznoy The Tsar’s Bride, Belcore L’elisir d’amore, Iago Otello, Don Carlo di Vargas La forza del destino and Michele Il tabarro.

As a guest soloist, Zelenkov has appeared at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow as Rigoletto and Amonasro, at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre as Rigoletto, at Staatsoper Hannover as Iago, at Aalto-Theater Essen and Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe as Scarpia, and at Theater Kiel as Amonasro, Ibn-Hakia and Don Carlo di Vargas. In 2018, he toured South Korea with NOVAT. He also appeared as Bartolo Il barbiere di Siviglia at Deutsche Oper Berlin in 2023.

Zelenkov studied at the Novosibirsk State Conservatory, graduating in 2015. In 2014, he won the All-Russian Myasnikova Competition in Novosibirsk and First Prize at the II All-Russian Music Competition in Moscow. In 2021, he received Second Prize at the International Vocal Competition of the Elena Obraztsova Foundation “José Carreras Grand Prix”. He is a three-time winner of the National Onegin Opera Award, receiving the award in 2017, 2020 and 2023.