Born in 1971 in Sankt Petersburg in Russia, he completed with honours his vocal training with Professor Yevgeny Nesterenka at the Pyotr Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, where he also studied composition.
In the season 1994/95, he was engaged by the opera studio at Bayerische Staatsoper, in 1995 he was also employed in Freiburger Theater. He sang there e.g. the following parts: Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Britten, Alidoro in Cinderella by Rossini, and Figaro in The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart (also in the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg).
In 1997-2000 he was employed at the Opera in Cologne, where he sang e.g. the parts of Pistol in Verdi’s Falstaff and Colline in Puccini’s La Bohème, working with such directors as Willy Decker, Robert Carsen and Günter Krämer. In 2000, he gave a guest performance as Paolo in Simon Boccanegra in Nancy, Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor in Augsburg, the Sprite inThe Rusalka by Dvořák in Bielefeld, and Don Basilio in The Barber of Seville in Deutsche Oper am Rhein. In the season 2000/2001, he was employed by Staatstheater Braunschweig, where he sang the parts of Leporello (Don Giovanni), Ramfiso (Aida), Mefisto (Faust) and Camillo in Wintermärchen by Boesman. In the upcoming season, his performances are planned in the opera theatres of Geneva, Paris, Montpellier, Bielefeld and Bologna.
Alexandre Vassiliev appears regularly in the song and oratorio repertoire, e.g. with such directors as J. Conlon, E. zu Guttenberg and Ch. Spering.