Kuzmin-Karavaev
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.
He has also appeared in productions of the Bayerische Staatsoper München, Staatsoper Hamburg, Teatro Real Madrid, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse, Opéra National de Lyon, Teatro Real Madrid, Oviedo Opera, Teatro Colón Buenos Aires and Santiago de Chile.
On the concert platform, he performed at the Berliner Philharmoniker, Fisher Center for Performing Arts New York, The San Francisco Symphony, as well as Baden-Baden Festspiele, Santander International Festival, Budapest Summer Festival and others.
In 2015 he debuted at the Bolshoi Theatre as Bartolo (La nozze di Figaro, premiere performances).
A prize-winner at the Glinka International Vocal Competition (3d prize, special prize for the best performance of works by Georgy Sviridov, and the title Best Bass; Moscow).
Colline (Puccini’s La Bohème)
Bartolo (Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro)
Calchas (Gluck’s Iphigenie en Aulide) — Teatro dell’Opera di Roma
Uberto (Pergolesi’s La Serva Padrona, in concert) — Bosphorus University in Istanbul
Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro) — Festival della Valle d’Itria (Italy)
Oroveso (Norma) — Theater St Gallen (Switzerland)
Don Magnifico (Rossini’s La Cenerentola) — Novaya Opera Theatre
Don Basilio (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) — Staatsoper Hamburg
Alfonso d’Este (Lucrezia Borgia) — Teatro Municipal de Santiago
Raimondo (Lucia di Lammermoor) — Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse, Tatar Opera and Ballet Theatre
Ramfis (Aida) — Novaya Opera Theatre
Banco (Macbeth) — Novaya Opera Theatre
Ferrando (Il trovatore) — Novaya Opera Theatre
Count Monterone, Sparafucile (Rigoletto) — Grand Théâtre de Genève
Padre Guardiano (La forza del destino) — Santiago de Chile
Colline (La Bohème) —
Simone (Gianni Schicchi) — Opéra National de Lyon
Méphistophélès (Gounod’s Faust) — Novaya Opera Theatre
King Marke (Tristan und Isolde) — Novaya Opera Theatre
King Rene (Iolanta) — Novaya Opera Theatre
Prince Gremin (Eugene Onegin) — Novaya Opera Theatre
Farlaf (Glinka’s Ruslan and Lyudmila) — Novaya Opera Theatre
Pimen (Boris Godunov) — Bayerische Staatsoper München, Opéra Royal de Wallonie Liège, Csokonai Theatre in Debrecen (Hungary), Santander International Festival, Budapest Summer Festival, The San Francisco Symphony
Sobakin (The Tsar’s Bride) — Novaya Opera Theatre
Agamemnon (Taneyev’s Oresteia) — Fisher Center for Performing Arts New York
An Old Gypsy (Rachmaninov’s Aleko) — Teatro Colón Buenos Aires
Rodolfo (La sonnambula) — Theater am Gärtnerplatz München
Frère Laurence (Gounod’s Romeo et Juliette) — Novaya Opera Theatre
Arkel (Pelléas and Mélisande) — Oviedo Opera
Vodnik (Dvořák’s Rusalka) — Teatro Real Madrid
Collatinus (The Rape of Lucretia) — Novaya Opera Theatre
Ghost of Virgil (Rachmaninov’s Francesca da Rimini) — Berliner Philharmoniker, Baden-Baden Festspiele
Maxim Kuzmin-Karavaev has been enjoying a vast concert repertoire that includes 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, works by Glinka, Dargomyzhsky, Borodin, Balakirev, Mussorgsky, Rimski-Korsakov, Cui, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Sviridov, Schubert, Schumann, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi to name a few.
He has toured to Italy, Austria, Germany, Bulgaria, Hungary, Belgium, France, Spain, Norway, Turkey, UAE, USA, Canada, Argentina and Chile.