Fyodor Kuznetsov graduated from the vocal faculty of the Nizhny Novgorod State Glinka Conservatoire in 1989 (class of Professor Krestinsky). He was a soloist with the St Petersburg State Academic Musorgsky Theatre of Opera and Ballet from 1987-1996. He made his Mariinsky Theatre debut in 1996 as Don Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia. Mariinsky Theatre soloist from the same year.
Mariinsky Theatre soloist from the same year.
Has toured with the Mariinsky Opera Company to Amsterdam (Concertgebouw), Baden-Baden (Festspielhaus), London (Covent Garden), Milan (La Scala), New York (Metropolitan Opera), Buenos Aires (Teatro Colón), Paris (Théâtre des Champs Élysées) and Madrid (Teatro Real) in addition to performances at the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari (Italy).

At the world’s greatest theatres he has performed the roles of Varlaam (Boris Godunov, Salzburg’s Festspielhaus and the Stuttgart Staatstheater), Klingsor and Titurel (Parsifal, Municipal Theatre, Santiago), Priest (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Teatro Real, Madrid, and the Prinzregent Theater, Munich) and Il Commendatore (Don Giovanni, Los Angeles Opera and Washington Opera). In November 2004 he took part in a concert by the Baltika Kremerata conducted by Gidon Kremer at Carnegie Hall (Dmitry Shostakovich’s Fourteenth Symphony).

The singer’s recordings include Boris Godunov and Betrothal in a Monastery (Philips Classics), Karoena de zeemeermin by Boudewijn Buckinx and romances and songs by Dmitry Shostakovich for Vox Tempory.