• Prize-winner at the II International Competition for Young Opera Singers named after Sergey Lemeshev (Tver, 2023; 1st prize)
Anatoly Mikhailov was born in the town of Glazov (Udmurtia) in 1996. In 2020 he graduated from the Ural State Musorgsky Conservatoire (class of Valery Sherstov). Has taken part in a masterclass conducted by Ildar Abdrazakov.
In 2020–2021 Anatoly Mikhailov was a soloist with the Eric Sapaev Mari State Opera and Ballet Theatre (Yoshkar-Ola), where he performed the parts of Escamillo (Carmen), Grigory Gryaznoy (The Tsar’s Bride) and Eugene Onegin.
In 2021 the singer became a fellow of the Atkins Young Artists Program at the Mariinsky Theatre. He made his debut at the theatre in 2022 – first in a concert by young opera soloists, then in Eugene Onegin.
Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre:
Eugene Onegin (Eugene Onegin)
Kum (Sorochintsy Fair, chamber version)
Mizgir (The Snow Maiden)
Robert (Iolanta)
A Venetian Merchant (Sadko)
Fyodor Poyarok (The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya)
Pantalone (The Love for Three Oranges)
Denisov (War and Peace)
Dr Malatesta (Don Pasquale)
Don Fernando (Fidelio, concert performance)
Valentin (Gounod’s Faust, concert performance)
Has sung in premieres of new Mariinsky Theatre productions of The Love for Three Oranges (2022, revival of the 1991 production) and The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya (2022, new revision of the 1994 production).
His repertoire also includes the role of Prince Yeletsky (The Queen of Spades).
Information for July 2024