Biography
Вorn in Dalakhai (Republic of Buryatia).After graduating from the Ulan-Ude Tchaikovsky Music College in 2003, he studied at the St Petersburg State Conservatory (class of Yury Marusin).
He joined the Buryat Opera and Ballet Theatre as soloist in 2010, from 2011-2014 he appeared with the Saratov Opera and Ballet Theatre, and from 2014-2018 returned to the Buryat Opera, performing the leading roles.
Since December 2019 Mikhail Pirogov has been a soloist with the Hvorostovsky Krasnoyarsk State Opera and Ballet Theatre. In 2021 he became an ensemble member of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre (NOVAT).
He also performed at the Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg and Novaya Opera Theatre, Moscow.
Mikhail Pirogov is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes, including the Golden Mask Russian National Theatre Prize-2022 for the part of Solovei Budimirovich in Borodin’s The Bogatyrs (production of the Krasnoyarsk Opera), Republic of Buryatia State Award (2019), Honoured Artist of the Republic of Buryatia (2018) as well as special prizes at the International Vocal Competition of The Elena Obraztsova Foundation «José Carreras Grand Prix» (2018), Grand Prix at the Kim Bazarsadayev International Vocal Competition in Ulan-Ude (2017), Grand Prix at the Pyotr Slovtsov International Competition of Young Opera Singers in Krasnoyarsk (2015) and Dugarzhap Dashiev Vocal Competition in Ulan-Ude (2009), and many others.
Repertoire
Cavaradossi (Tosca) — Krasnoyarsk Opera, NOVATKalaf (Turandot) — NOVAT
Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly) — Buryat Opera, Saratov Opera, Krasnoyarsk Opera, Mariinsky Theatre, Novaya Opera
Canio (I pagliacci) — Buryat Opera, NOVAT, Krasnoyarsk Opera
Alfredo (La Traviata) — Krasnoyarsk Opera
Radames (Aida) — Krasnoyarsk Opera
Don Jose (Carmen) — Krasnoyarsk Opera, Buryat Opera
Vaudemont (Iolanta) — Krasnoyarsk Opera
Herman (The Queen of Spades) — NOVAT, Krasnoyarsk Opera
Solovei Budimirovich (Borodin’s The Bogatyrs) — Krasnoyarsk Opera
Vladimir Igorevich (Borodin’s Prince Igor) — Saratov Opera, Krasnoyarsk Opera
Rienzi (Rienzi, der Letzte der Tribunen) — Saratov Opera
Prince (Dargomyzhsky’s Rusalka) — Saratov Opera
Andrei Khovansky (Khovanshchina) — Saratov Opera
Manrico (Il trovatore) — Krasnoyarsk Opera
The Duke of Mantua (Rigoletto) — Krasnoyarsk Opera
Richard / King Gustav III (Un Ballo in Maschera) — Krasnoyarsk Opera, Buryat Opera
All in group
- Yaroslav Abaimov
- Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke
- Pietro Adaíni
- Migran Agadzhanyan
- Mikhail Agafonov
- Michele Angelini
- Liparit Avetisyan
- Hovhannes Ayvazyan
- Kristian Benedikt
- Peter Berger
- Giorgio Berrugi
- Francisco Brito
- Javier Camarena
- Andrea Caré
- Arturo Chacón-Cruz
- Shota Chibirov
- Marco Ciaponi
- John Daszak
- Bekhzod Davronov
- Freddie De Tommaso
- Timofei Dubovitsky
- Valentin Dytiuk
- Sergio Escobar
- Yusif Eyvazov
- Walter Fraccaro
- Ruzil Gatin
- Massimo Giordano
- Davide Giusti
- Diego Godoy
- Dmitry Golovnin
- Vittorio Grigolo
- Mikhail Gubsky
- Brenden Gunnell
- Ivan Gyngazov
- Teodor Ilincai
- Brian Jagde
- Otar Jorjikia
- Murat Karahan
- Tuomas Katajala
- Dmitry Korchak
- Rame Lahaj
- Matteo Lippi
- Josh Lovell
- Aquiles Machado
- Eduard Martynyuk
- Riccardo Massi
- Nazhmiddin Mavlyanov
- Maxim Mironov
- Martin Muehle
- Alexander Murashov
- Tomislav Mužek
- Alexei Neklyudov
- Yaramir Nizamutdinov
- Dovlet Nurgeldiyev
- Pene Pati
- Pavel Petrov
- Saimir Pirgu
- Mikhail Pirogov
- Antonio Poli
- Sergey Polyakov
- Andrei Popov
- Dmytro Popov
- Sergei Radchenko
- Bernard Richter
- Iván Ayón Rivas
- Gaston Rivero
- Edgardo Rocha
- Sergey Romanovsky
- Boris Rudak
- Giovanni Sala
- Juan Sancho
- Sergei Semishkur
- Shanul Sharma
- Yijie Shi
- Sergei Skorokhodov
- Mert Süngü
- Kenneth Tarver
- Alexei Tatarintsev
- Klim Tikhonov
- Alexander Trofimov
- Fabio Trümpy
- Pavel Valuzhin
- Vincent Wolfsteiner
- Azer Zada
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