Guzhov
Born in Moscow, Mikhail Guzhov graduated from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire (Anatoly Loshak’s class) in 1995.
In 1992–98 — a soloist of Moscow’s Stanislavsky and Nemirovich Danchenko Music Theatre.
In 1998–2005 — Bolshoi Theatre Opera Company’s artist.
In 1998 he became a guest soloist with the Music Theatre “Helikon Opera”. Since 2005 he has been a leading soloist of the Company.
Fyodor Chaliapin Prize at the II International Rachmaninov Competition
Prize winner of the III Rimsky-Korsakov International Competition
Irina Arkhipova Foundation Prize (bronze medal)
“Russia’s National Treasure“ Award
Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation
Boris Godunov (Boris Godunov)
Konchak (Prince Igor)
Sobakin (The Tsar’s Bride)
Tsar Dodon (The Golden Cockerel)
Metropolitan Philaret (Sergunin’s Doctor Haass)
Kochubei (Mazeppa)
Gremin (Eugene Onegin)
Strafokamil (Erenberg’s Vampuka, the African Bride)
Priest, Old convict (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk)
A Cook (The Love for Three Oranges)
Count Nikita Panin (Tukhmanov’s Tsarina)
Bartolo (Le nozze di Figaro)
Publio (La clemenza di Tito)
Basilio (Il barbiere di Siviglia)
Zaccaria (Nabucco)
Banco (Macbeth)
Ramfis (Aida)
Zuniga (Carmen)
Walitzin (Giordano’s Siberia)
Lindorf (Les contes d’Hoffmann)
Brighella (Das Liebesverbot)
Vodnik (Dvořák’s Rusalka)
Varlaam (Boris Godunov)
Prince Vyazemsky (The Maid of Pskov)
Bermyata (The Snow Maiden)
Polkan (The Golden Cockerel)
Malyuta Skuratov (The Tsar’s Bride)
Varangian merchant (Sadko)
Zaretsky (Eugene Onegin)
Surin (The Queen of Spades)
Bertran (Iolanta)
Molchan (The Oprichnik)
Herald (The Love for Three Oranges)
Potapych (The Gambler)
Marchese di Calatrava (La Forza del Destino)
Barone Douphol (La Traviata)
The High Priest of Bel (Nabucco)
Pharaon (Aida)
A Mandarin (Turandot)
First Nazarene (Salome)
King Rene (Iolanta)
Kochubei (Mazeppa)
King Rene (Iolanta) — Ekaterinburg State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet
Miller (Dargomyzhsky’s Rusalka) — Saratov Opera and Ballet Theatre
Galitsky (Prince Igor) — Saratov Opera and Ballet Theatre
Pimen (Boris Godunov) — Tatar Opera and Ballet Theatre, Kazan
Oroveso (Norma) — Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, Moscow
In concert: Handel’s Messiah, Dvořák’s Requiem, Beethoven Symphony No. 9, Shostakovich Symphonies Nos. 13 & 14, Weihnachts-Oratorium and St. Matthew Passion by Hilarion Alfeyev as well as song cycles by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Sergei Rachmaninov, Sergei Taneyev, Franz Schubert, Sviridov’s The Departed Russia.
Mikhail Guzgov has toured to Italy, France, Spain, the UK, China, as well as various cities in Russia: St Petersburg, Ekaterinburg, Omsk, Magadan, Khabarovsk, Krasnodar.
Collaborated with such russian theatres as Ekaterinburg State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet, Saratov Opera and Ballet Theatre, Samara Opera and Ballet Theatre, Tatar Opera and Ballet Theatr in Kazan. Performed regulary with State Academic Symphonic Chapel of Russia under direction of Valery Polyansky.
He has also worked with Evgeny Svetlanov, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Dmity Kitaenko, Mikhail Pletnev, Valery Gerguev, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Mark Ermler and other conductors.
The audio and video recordings include Shostakovich’s Moscow, Cheryomushki, Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito, Verdi’s Nabucco, Prokofiev’s War and Peace, Rachmaninov’s The Miserly Knight, Mussorgsky’s The Fair at Sorochyntsi, Bruckner’s Mass No. 1.