Mikhail Timoshenko Bass baritone

Season 24/25 Artist

Trained at the Paris Opera Academy

Born in Russia, Mikhail Timoshenko began his musical and theatrical training in Mednogorsk, then at the Franz Liszt University in Weimar and the Hans Eisler in Berlin. From 2015 to 2017, he was a member of the Académie de l'Opéra national de Paris, where he sang Pluton (L'Orfeo), Spencer Coyle (Owen Wingrave) and Silvano (Un bal masqué). He won the Cercle Carpeaux prize and the AROP prize in 2016, and the Maria Callas International Grand Prix in Greece in 2017. In 2018, in duo with pianist Elitsa Desseva, he won First Prize at the Chamber Music Competition in Graz, First Prize at the Hugo Wolf Academy Competition in Stuttgart, Second Prize and Audience Prize at the Schubert-Wettbewerb Competition in Dortmund and First Prize at the Wigmore Hall / Independent Opera Song Competition in London.

He took part in the world premiere of Alexandre Desplat's chamber opera En Silence in Paris, sang Masetto (Don Giovanni) in Düsseldorf, Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) in Nancy, Ottokar (Le Franc-tireur) at the Konzerthaus Berlin, Mozart's Requiem in Antwerp, Fauré's Requiem in Baden Baden, Albert (Werther) in Lausanne and Tours, Mozart's Mass in C minor at the Salzburg Festival and in Antwerp, Marcello (La Bohème) in Toulouse, Papageno (The Magic Flute) in Montpellier, Franck Martin's Golgotha in Linz, Leporello (Don Giovanni) at the Glyndebourne Festival.

Recent roles include Prosdocimo (The Turk in Italy) in Lausanne, Shchelkalov (Boris Godunov) in Toulouse and at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, and Marcello at London's Royal Opera House. Future projects include Le Tribut de Zamora in Saint-Étienne, recitals with Elitsa Desseva in Linz and at the Wigmore Hall, and Belcore (L'Élixir d'amour) in Nancy.

À l'Opéra national de Paris : Rigoletto (Il Conte di Ceprano), 2017 ; Don Carlos (Député flamand), 2017 ; Wozzeck (Erster Handwerksbursch), 2017, 2022 ; Un bal masqué (Silvano), 2018 ; Boris Godounov (Mitioukha), 2018 ; Simon Boccanegra (Pietro), 2018 ; Don Giovanni (Masetto), 2019, 2022