Maxim Kuzmin-Karavaev

Biography

Graduated from the Moscow State Conservatory in 2004.
In 2006-08, studied at the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre.
In 2007-15 – a soloist with Moscow’s Novaya Opera Theatre.

Repertoire

Uberto (Pergolesi’s La Serva Padrona)
Calchas (Gluck’s Iphigenie en Aulide)
Melisso (Händel’s Alcina)
Figaro (Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro)
Oroveso (Bellini’s Norma)
Don Magnifico (Rossini’s La Cenerentola )
Don Basilio (Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia)
Alfonso d’Este (Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia)
Ramfis (Verdi’s Aida)
Banco (Verdi’s Macbeth)
Ferrando (Verdi’s Il trovatore)
Count Monterone, Sparafucile (Verdi’s Rigoletto)
Colline (Puccini’s La Bohème)
Simone (Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi)
Méphistophélès (Gounod’s Faust)
King Marke (Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde)
King Rene (Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta)
Prince Gremin (Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin)
Farlaf (Glinka’s Ruslan and Lyudmila)
Pimen (Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov)
title role (Borodin’s Prince Igor)
Sobakin (Rimski-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride)
Agamemnon (Taneyev’s Oresteia)
An Old Gypsy (Rachmaninov’s Aleko)
Rodolfo (Bellini’s La Sonnambula)
Frère Laurence (Gounod’s Romeo et Juliette)
Arkel (Debussi’s Pelléas and Mélisande)
Vodnik (Dvořák’s Rusalka)

Bass parts from Weihnachts-Oratorium, St Matthew Passion, Mass in B minor by J.S. Bach, Stabat Mater and Nelson Mass by Haydn, Stabat Mater and Petite messe solennelle by Rossini, Requiems by Mozart, Verdi, Schumann and Fauré.

Tours

He has toured to Italy, Austria, Germany, Bulgaria, Hungary, Belgium, France, Spain, Norway, Turkey, UAE, USA, Canada, Argentina and Chile.

His recent and future engagements include: debut with Teatro Real Madrid as Vodnik Rusalka, Ghost of Virgil Francesca da Rimini with Berliner Philharmoniker and Baden-Baden Festspiele with Maestro Petrenko, Pimen Boris Godunov at the Bayerische Staatsoper München, Basilio Il Barbiere di Siviglia at Staatsoper Hamburg, Raimondo Lucia di Lammermoor at Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse, Rodolfo La Sonnambula at Theater am Gärtnerplatz München, Padre Guardiano La forza del destino at Santiago de Chile, Arkel Pelléas and Mélisande in Oviedo Opera.

Among other engagements: Calchas Iphigenie en Aulide for Teatro dell’Opera di Roma with Riccardo Muti, Pimen Boris Godunov with Opéra Royal de Wallonie Liège and Santander International Festival, Ser Amantio di Nicolao Gianni Schicchi at Opéra National de Lyon, Alfonso D’Este Lucrezia Borgia at Teatro Municipal de Santiago, An Old Gypsy Aleko at Teatro Colón Buenos Aires, Agamemnon Taneyev’s Oresteia at Fisher Center for Performing Arts New York, Frère Laurence Romeo et Juliette and Sobakin The Tsar’s Bride at Novaya Opera Moscow, Bartolo Le nozze di Figaro for Bolshoi Theatre Moscow.

Maxim Kuzmin-Karavaev has been enjoying a vast concert repertoire that includes works by Glinka, Dargomyzhsky, Borodin, Balakirev, Mussorgsky, Rimski-Korsakov, Cui, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Sviridov, Schubert, Schumann, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi to name a few.