Mikhail Makarov

Prize-winner at All-Russian and Republican Competitions.

Born in the Republic of Komi. In 2001 he graduated from the Rimsky-Korsakov St Petersburg State Conservatory (class of Mikhail Yegorov, Honoured Artist of Russia). Was a soloist at St Petersburg’s Mikhailovsky Theatre during 2003–2008.

He worked as a guest soloist at the Mariinsky Theatre from 2008 to 2012 and has been a member of the Mariinsky Opera Company since 2012.

Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre:
Polish Messenger (A Life for the Tsar)
Finn (Ruslan and Lyudmila)
A Neighbouring Boyar (Boris Godunov)
Prince Sinodal’s Courier (The Demon)
Wood-Sprite (The Snow Maiden)
Sadko (Sadko)
Vakula (Christmas Eve)
Man with a Bear (The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya)
Balakin (The Enchantress)
Master of Ceremonies (The Queen of Spades)
A Heated Gambler (The Gambler)
Master of Ceremonies (The Love for Three Oranges)
Aide-de-camp to Field-Marshal Kutuzov, Adjutant to Prince Eugene, Master of Ceremonies,
Ivanov (War and Peace)
Nozdryov, Postmaster (Dead Souls)
August (A Christmas Tale)
Mitya (The Brothers Karamazov)
High Priest and Arbace (Idomeneo, rè di Creta)
Sir Bruno Roberton (I puritani)
Flavio (Norma)
Normanno, Arturo (Lucia di Lammermoor)
Abdallo (Nabucco)
Don Riccardo (Ernani, chamber version)
Heinrich der Schreiber (Tannhäuser)
Uldino (Attila)
Danieli (I vespri siciliani)
Royal Herald (Don Carlo)
Messenger (Aida)
Isèpo (La Gioconda, concert performance)
Captain of the Crossbowmen (Simon Boccanegra)
Roderigo (Verdi’s Otello)
The Abbé (Andrea Chénier, concert performance)
Augustin Moser (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg)
Melot (Tristan und Isolde)
Allumeur de réverbères (Puccini’s Manon Lescaut)
Emperor Altoum (Turandot)
Trin (La fanciulla del West)
Third Jew (Salome)
Poisson (Adriana Lecouvreur)
Knight (Cristoforo Colombo, concert performance)

His repertoire also includes Canio (Pagliacci), Don José (Carmen), Cavaradossi (Tosca), Herman, Chekalinsky (The Queen of Spades), Count Vaudémont (Iolanta), Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly), Ivan Lykov (The Tsar’s Bride), Vladimir Igorevich (Prince Igor), Alfredo Germont (La traviata), Lensky (Eugene Onegin), the Pretender (Boris Godunov), Turiddu (Cavalleria rusticana), Antonio (The Duenna), Ferrando (Così fan tutte), the tenor part (Mozart’s Requiem), Mozart (Mozart and Salieri) and the Young Gypsy (Aleko).