Maksim Mikhailov

Maksim Mikhailov, a grandson of the famous Russian bass Maxim Mikhailov, was born in Moscow. He studied trombone at the Gnessin Music School and trombone and vocal technique at the Gnessin Music Academy. In 1987, he was invited to the Bolshoi Theatre, where he has performed bass parts in Borodin’s Prince Igor, Glinka’s Life for the Tsar, Dargomyzhsky’s Rusalka, Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov, Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sadko and Tsar’s Bride, Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, Gounod’s Faust, Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, and others. In 1994, he was invited to perform Boris Godunov at the Easter Festival in Salzburg under the baton of Claudio Abbado. In 1996, he made his debut with the Royal Opera House in London (Masetto in Mozart’s Don Giovanni). He appears at the opera houses of New York, Huston, London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, Milan, Venice, Bologna, Naples, Barcelona, Helsinki, Oslo, and other cities. He has performed with Antonio Pappano, Mikhail Jurowski, James Conlon, Vladimir Jurowski, and other renowned conductors. He often participates in the Glyndebourne Opera Festival and other international festivals and as well as in various concert performances. Among his most recent and future highlights one can mention his performances with the Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra, Staatskapelle Dresden, London Philharmonic Orchestra, his debut with the Flemish Opera (Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk), and his master classes at the Antwerp Conservatoire.

At the Mikhailovsky Theatre, he has performed Caiaphas in the stage version of Slonimsky’s Master and Margarita under the baton of Vladimir Jurowski and Bermyata in the concert performance of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Snow Maiden under the baton of Dmitri Jurowski.