International Competition Prize-Winner

Mikhail Kazantsev graduated from the Ural State Mussorgsky Conservatoire in 1989. In 1996, he joined the Mikhailovsky Opera. At the Theatre, he performed Gremin in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, Zlatogor in Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades, René in Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta, Galitsky and Konchak in Borodin’s Prince Igor, Boris Godunov and Pimen in Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov, Dosifey in Mussorgsky’s Khovanshchina, Vasily Sobakin in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride, Saltan in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tale of Tsar Saltan, Louis in Alexander Tchaikovsky’s Les trois mousquetaires, Don Basilio in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, Leporello and Il Commendatore in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, bass part in Verdi’s Requiem, and Sacristan in Puccini’s Tosca.

Nowadays, at the Mikhailovsky Theatre Mikhail Kazantsev performs bass parts in the operas by Giuseppe Verdi and Pyotr Tchaikovsky.