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Born in Tula, Russia Maxim Mironov has sung Don Ramiro in La Cenerentola at the Theatre des Champs Elysée with the Orchestre de Paris, Count Libenskof in Il Viaggio a Reims and Lindoro in L’Italiana in Algeri at the Rossini Opera Festival, where he has been invited back to sing the role of Oreste in Ermione. He has sung Narciso in Il Turco in Italia at the Hamburgische Staatsoper and Lindoro in L’Italiana in Algeri at the Aix en Provence Festival.
Tenor Maxim Mironov was born in Tula
and after graduating from the Higher School
of Arts in Moscow he joined the Theatre
Helicon Opera in Moscow.
He has sung Don Ramiro in La Cenerentola
at the Theatre des Champs Elysée with the
Orchestre de Paris, Count Libenskof in Il
Viaggio a Reims and Lindoro in L’Italiana
in Algeri at the Rossini Opera Festival,
where he has been invited back to sing the
role of Oreste in Ermione. He has sung
Narciso in Il Turco in Italia at the
Hamburgische Staatsoper and Lindoro in
L’Italiana in Algeri at the Aix en Provence
Festival.
He has recently sung the role of Libenskof in
Il Viaggio a Reims at the Japan Opera
Foundation conducted by Alberto Zedda, La
Cenerentola at the Glyndebourne Festival,
Lindoro at the Teatro Comunale, Bologna and
in Luxembourg, Orphée et Euridyce at the
Toulon Opera and Almaviva in Il Barbiere di
Siviglia at Toulon Opera and Opera Las
Palmas.
He participates regularly with Maestro Zedda
at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro,
where he sung the Cantata di Canova and
has also sung the Rossini Stabat Mater with
Zedda. He has performed in recital at the
Frankfurt Opera and made his London recital
debut in a Rosenblatt Recital at St.John's
Smith Square, London.
His future engagements include L’Italiana in
Algeri at Opera Las Palmas, at the Teatro
San Carlo, Naples, Asociación de Amigos de
la Opera de Mahón and the Teatro Real
Madrid, and also Libenskof in Il Viaggio a
Reims in Santander and at the Teatro de la
Zarzuela, Bilbao.
Other engagements include Rossini’s Otello
at Lausanne Opera, Il Turco in Italia at the
Theater an der Wien, La Cenerentola at the
Deutsche Oper Berlin and Hamburgische
Staatsoper, and Così fan tutte at the Vlaamse
Opera, where he will also make his debut
performance in English, singing Handel’s
Messiah.
Pianist Roger Vignoles is one of Britain's
most outstanding musicians. Originally
inspired by the playing of Gerald Moore, he
decided on leaving University to pursue a
career as a piano accompanist, completing his
essential training with the distinguished
Viennese-born teacher Paul Hamburger.
Since then reviewers worldwide have
consistently recognised his distinctive
qualities as a player. Among his first partners
was the great Swedish soprano Elisabeth
Söderström, whom he regularly accompanied
throughout the 1970s and 80s. During this
period, he also developed particularly fruitful
collaborations with Dame Kiri te Kanawa
and Sir Thomas Allen, recording many works
including Schumann's Dichterliebe and
Schubert's Winterreise. He also collaborated
with Sarah Walker, in a wide repertoire of
song, from German Lieder and French
Mélodies to cabaret songs by Gershwin and
Britten.
Recent seasons have included tours with
Sylvia McNair, Dame Felicity Lott, Susan
Graham, Véronique Gens, Sir Thomas Allen
and Joan Rodgers, as well as recitals with Olaf
Bär, Kathleen Battle, Christine Brewer,
Brigitte Fassbaender, Bernarda Fink,
Christine Schaefer, Thomas Hampson,
Lorraine Hunt, Stephan and Christoph Genz,
Monica Groop and Sarah Walker. He is a
regular visitor to the Schubertiade in
Feldkirch and has also appeared at the Bath,
Cheltenham, Brighton, Aldeburgh, Prague
Schleswig-Holstein, Verbier and Ravinia
Festivals.
He has devised and directed many festivals,
highlights of which include a week-long
Schubert series in 1997, entitled ‘Landscape
into Song’ at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in
London, in which his culminating
performance of Winterreise with Robert Holl
was described by The Times as ‘one of the
most memorable performances of the year’.
In 1998 he inaugurated the Nagaoka Winter
Festival in Japan, giving recitals and
Masterclasses based on Schubert’s Winterreise
and subsequently returned each year as
Artistic Director until 2002. Most recently in
2007 he was the Artistic Director of Leeds
Lieder, a weekend of song with artists
including Mark Padmore, Measha
Bruggergosman, Florian Boesch and
Elizabeth Watts.
Among his recordings, La Belle Epoque with
Susan Graham (devoted to the songs of
Reynaldo Hahn), Nuits d’Etoiles with
Véronique Gens (Fauré, Debussy, Poulenc)
and a CD of Strauss, Mahler and Marx with
Katarina Karneus, have all been nominated
for Gramophone awards, while his recording
of Beethoven songs with Stephan Genz on
Hyperion won the 1999 Award in the Song
Category. Recent releases include the
complete Wolf Mörike-Lieder with Stephan
Genz, Canciones Amatorias, a CD of Spanish
Songs with Bernarda Fink and Strauss Songs
with Christine Brewer on Hyperion.
Future engagements include recitals and tours
with Kate Royal and Measha Brueggergosman
in North America, and recitals with Elizabeth
Watts, John Mark Ainsley, Bruce Ford, Robert
Holl, Miah Persson, Wolfgang Holzmair, and
Mark Padmore.