Soloist

Maxim Kuzmin-Karavaev

Maxim Kuzmin-Karavaev graduated with a degree in singing from the Moscow Conservatory as well as the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre in Moscow. He attended master courses with Riccardo Muti, Alexander Malt, Vladimir Chernov, Diane Zola, Richard Bado and Lenore Rosenberg and is an award winner of the International Moscow Glinka Singing Competition (3rd prize in 2009), of International Opera Singing Competition of Galina Vishnevskaya (2008) as well as of the »Bella Voce« singing contest for young opera singers in Moscow.

His opera repertoire comprises parts like Melisso in Handel's »Alcina«, Uberto in Pergolesi's »La serva padrona«, Masetto in »Don Giovanni«, Figaro in »Le nozze di Figaro«, Monterone in »Rigoletto«, Mephistopheles in »Faust«, Colline in »La bohème«, Farlaf and Svyatozar in »Ruslan und Ljudmila«, Sobakin in »The Tsar's Bride«, King René in »Jolanta«, Gremin in »Eugene Onegin«, Simone in »Gianni Schicchi«, Pimen in »Boris Godunov«, Kalchas in Gluck's »Iphigénie en Aulide«, Oroveso in »Norma«, Don Magnifico in »La Cenerentola«, Ramfis in »Aida«, Ferrando in »Il trovatore« and Pagano in »Lucrezia Borgia«.

In the concert field, Maxim Kuzmin-Karavaev has sung, among other parts, the bass parts in Haydn's »Stabat Mater«, the requiems of Schumann, Verdi, Mozart and Fauré as well as in Rossini's »Petite messe solennelle«.

Maxim Kuzmin-Karavaev was a soloist at the New Moscow Opera as well as a regular guest performer at the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre and at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.

International appearances have taken him, among other roles, as Figaro to the Ischia Opera Festival in Italy, as Pimen to the Opera Festival to Budapest, Liège and Debrecen, as Kalchas to Rome, as Gianni Schicchi in Puccini's eponymous opera to the Opéra National de Lyon, as Alfonso d'Este (»Lucrezia Borgia«) to Santiago de Chile, as An Old Gypsy (in Rachmaninoff's »Aleko«) to the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires as well as Agamemnon in Tanayev's »Orestie« to New York.