Pyotr Migunov (Bass)
Pyotr Migunov was born in Leningrad. After graduating from the Glinka Choral
School where he specialised in choral conducting he entered the vocal faculty of
the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire (class of V. Lebed); he subsequently completed
a postgraduate study (class of Professor Nikolai Okhotnikov).
He has collaborated with the St Petersburg State Academic Choral Capella,
performing solo roles in Verdi’s Requiem, Mozart’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Ninth
Symphony, Bach’s Mass in B Minor, Rachmaninoff’s cantata The Bells and
Stravinsky’s Les Noces.
Pyotr Migunov performs at prestigious concert venues throughout Russia, among
them the Greater and Lesser Halls of the St Petersburg Philharmonic, the halls
of the State Theatre of Opera and Ballet of the St Petersburg Conservatoire and
the State Academic Choral Capella. In 2004 Pyotr Migunov made his debut at the
Bolshoi Theatre of Russia (Moscow). He currently performs in Bolshoi Theatre
productions including Verdi’s Falstaff, Desyatnikov’s Rosenthal’s Children and
Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. The singer’s repertoire also includes the roles of
Méphistophélès (Gounod’s Faust), King René (Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta), Gremin
(Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin), Sobakin (Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride),
Aleko (Rachmaninoff’s Aleko), Don Bartolo (Mozart’s Les nozze di Figaro), Don
Basilio (Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia), Inigo (Ravel’s L’Heure espagnole,
Tom (Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera) and Mendoza (Prokofiev’s The Duenna).
Pyotr Migunov has toured to the USA, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland,
Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Slovenia, Croatia, Yugoslavia, Greece,
South Korea and Japan. In 2003 he made his debuts in New York’s Carnegie Hall
and the Lincoln Centre, while 2004 saw his debut at the Concertgebouw in
Amsterdam.
Pyotr Migunov is an Honoured Artist of Russia and prize-winner at numerous
international competitions.
At the Bolshoi Theatre, where he made his debut in 2003,
he appears in the following roles: Tom (Un Ballo in
Maschera) Bertrand (Iolanta)
Benoit (La Boheme) Angelotti
(Tosca) Varsonofiev (Mussorgsky's
Khovanshchina) Pistola (Falstaff)
Rosenthal (Desyatnikov's The Children of
Rosenthal) Vocal Solo (ballet Leah to music
by Leonard Bernstein, Alexei Ratmansky creation) The
Doorkeeper (Die Zauberfloete) Rangoni
(Boris Godunov) Prince Yuri Vsevolodovich
(Rimsky-Korsakov's The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and of the
Maiden Fevronia) Doctor
(Wozzeck)
Tours He has appeared in
the USA, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, France, Spain, Portugal,
Poland, Slovenia, Horvatia, Yugoslavia, Greece, South Korea, Japan. In 2000, he
made his debut at New York's Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Centre, and in 2003 -
at the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam).
Awards
He is prize-winner at the following
competitions: 5th international competition of young performers
(Tokyo, 1st prize, 1997); 5th international competition of
young performers (Krakow, diploma, 1997); 7th international Mozart
competition (Salzburg, special prize, 1999); Giuseppe Verdi international
competition (Busseto, diploma, 1999); 2nd Yelena Obraztsova
international competition for young opera singers (Saint-Petersburg, diploma and
special prize, 2001); the Sviridov international competition (Kursk,
1st prize, 2004); 2nd prize and special award at the
21st International Glinka Competition (Chelyabinsk, 2005).
Has CD recordings.
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