Mikhail Makarov

Tenor

Prize-winner at All-Russian and Republican Competitions.

Born in the Republic of Komi. In 2001 he graduated from the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire (class of M. Yegorov, Honoured Artist of Russia). Soloist with the Mikhailovsky Theatre.
Guest soloist with the Mariinsky Theatre since 2008.
He joined the Mariinsky Opera Company in 2012.

His repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre includes:
Polish Messenger (A Life for the Tsar)
Finn (Ruslan and Lyudmila)
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)
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 (Christopher Columbus in concert)

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