Mikhail Agafonov

Education
Lunatscharsky Academy for Performing Arts, Moskou, 1993

Debut
Lykov/Zar’s Bride; Rodolfo/ La Bohème (Bolshoi Theatre)

Career
Ensemble member of the Opera of Mannheim, 2002-now
Specialization: Italian repertoire

Highlights
Ismaele/Nabucco, Radamès/Aida, Gustavo/Un ballo in maschera, Cavaradossi/Tosca en Gabriele Adorno/Simon Boccanegra (Opera of Mannheim); Dick Johnson/La fanciulla del West (Amerika); Andrej/Mazeppa,staging: Peter Stein (Opera van Lyon, Edinburgh Festival); Cavaradossi/Tosca (Semperoper Dresden); War and Peace; Simon Boccanegra; Der fliegende Holländer; Bacchus/Ariadne auf Naxos; Pinkerton/Madama Butterfly (Deutsche Oper Berlin, Vlaamse Opera); Radamès/Aida (Vlaamse Opera)
Commitments in: Staatsoper unter den Linden (Berlin), Vienna Staatsoper & Volksoper, Covent Garden London, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Munich, Dresden, Parijs, Helsinki and Toronto

Prizes
International Singing Contest Zimin, 1996

Recent and future productions
Don Alvaro/La Forza del Destino (Vlaamse Opera); Andrea Chénier/Andrea Chénier (New National Theatre Tokyo); Lohengrin/Lohengrin; Otello/Otello (Mannheim); Herman/The Queen of Spades; Calaf/Turandot (Bolshoi Theatre)