Murzaev
Graduated from the Chelyabinsk Music College (Gavrilova’s class) and the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory (Skunchenko’s class). In 1991 he became the trainee, in 1992- 2007 – a soloist with the Bolshoi Opera Company. His repertoire there includes more than twenty roles.
Since 2000 Sergei Murzaev has been a guest soloist with the Mariinsky Theatre. The singer also regularly appeared on the stages of the Opéra national de Paris, Teatro alla Scala, Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Wiener Staatsoper, Semperoper Dresden to name but a few.
In 2017 he joined the Novaya Opera Company as a soloist.
Golden Mask National Theatrical Award (Lanciotto Malatesta in Francesca da Rimini, Bolshoi Theatre)
Honoured Artist of Russia
1st prize at the 14th Glinka All-Union Voice Contest
2nd prize at the Mario del Monaco International Vocal Competition
1st prize at the Luciano Pavarotti International Vocal Competition
2nd prize at the International Competition I Cestelli
Vision the old mighty warrior (Sadko)
Prince Igor (Prince Igor)
Onegin (Eugene Onegin)
Macbeth (Macbeth)
Grigory Gryaznoy (The Tsar’s Bride)
Shchelkalov (Boris Godunov)
Shaklovity (Khovanshchina)
Lanciotto Malatesta (Rachmaninov’s Francesca da Rimini)
Count di Luna (Il trovatore)
Renato (Un ballo in maschera)
Don Carlo (La forza del destino)
Marcello (La Boheme)
Scarpia (Tosca)
Shaklovity (Khovanshchina) — Opéra national de Paris, Mariinsky Theatre
Denisov (War and Peace) — Metropolitan Opera, Opéra national de Paris
Iago (Otello) — Teatro alla Scala, Opéra national de Paris, Mariinsky Theatre
Amonasro (Aida) — Mariinsky Theatre, фестиваль Арена ди Верона, театр Новая опера
Renato (Un ballo in maschera) — Mariinsky Theatre, National Centre for the Performing Arts in Bijing
Simon Boccanegra (Simon Boccanegra) — Mariinsky Theatre
Nabucco (Nabucco) — Teatro Carlo Felice of Genoa, opera houses in Toulon and Nice, Novaya Opera
Macbeth (Macbeth) — Mariinsky Theatre
Scarpia (Tosca) — Mariinsky Theatre, Opéra national de Paris, Opéra de Toulon, Teatro Municipale Giuseppe Verdi di Salerno, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Israeli Opera
Carlo Gérard (Giordano’s Andrea Chénier) — Opéra national de Paris, Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, Wiener Staatsoper, Teatro Pérez Galdós - Las Palmas, Novaya Opera
Prince Igor (Prince Igor) — Novaya Opera, Perm Opera Ballet, Chelyabinsk Opera and Ballet Theatre
Malatesta (Rachmaninov’s Francesca da Rimini) — Mariinsky Theatre
Grigory Gryaznoy (The Tsar’s Bride) — Novaya Opera
Count di Luna (Il trovatore) — Novaya Opera
Rigoletto (Rigoletto) — Novaya Opera
Germont (La Traviata) — Teatro Municipale Giuseppe Verdi di Salerno, Teatro di San Carlo di Napoli, Chelyabinsk Opera and Ballet Theatre, Novaya Opera
Tonio (Pagliacci) — Semperoper Dresden
Alfio (Cavalleria rusticana) — Semperoper Dresden
Sergey Murzaev toured in Austria, Germany, the USA, Brazil, Chile, Portugal, China, Japan, Korea, Spain, Luxembourg, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Finland, France and Russia.
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Gianandrea Noseda, Chandos, CD
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Gianandrea Noseda, Chandos, CD
conductor Gianandrea Noseda, Chandos, CD