Baritone

Maxim Aniskin graduated from the Ippolitov-Ivanov State Musical and Pedagogical Institute in Moscow (2005).

Since 2006, he has performed with the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre as Grigory Gryaznoy in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Tsar’s Bride, Aleko in Rachmaninoff’s Aleko, the Count in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Rodrigo in Verdi’s Don Carlos, and Tadeusz in Weinsberg’s Passenger. At the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre, he has participated in the performance of Britten’s War Requiem with Royal Northern Simfonia Chamber Orchestra. With the Novosibirsk Opera Company, he has toured to South Korea and Thailand.

Nowadays, Maxim Aniskin is also a guest soloist with the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia, where made his debut with the part of Marcello (Puccini’s La Bohème). In season 2011/2012, he made his debut with the Madrid Royal Theatre as Robert in Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta. In season 2013/2014, he made his debuts with Klagenfurt State Theatre as Macbeth in Verdi’s Macbeth and Metropolitan-opera as Sir Riccardo in Bellini’s I puritani.

Aniskin’s répertoire also includes parts in operas by Tchaikovsky (Onegin in Eugene Onegin, Yeletsky, Tomsky, and Zlatogor in The Queen of Spades), Alexander Borodin (the title role in Prince Igor), Giuseppe Verdi (the title role in Rigoletto and Giorgio Germont in La traviata), Giacomo Puccini (Scarpia in Tosca, Schaunard in La Bohème, and Sharpless in Madama Butterfly), Georges Bizet (Escamillo and Morales in Carmen).