Prof. Dr. Michail Lanskoi

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Prof. Dr. Michail Lanskoi
Professor of Singing
Subject/Instrument: Singing
Beethovenhaus Belvedere
michail.lanskoi(at)hfm-weimar.de
Born in Moscow
Studied at the Vocal Academy of the Bolshoi Theatre
Graduated with High Distinction from the Gnessin-Institute, Moscow
Ph.D in Music (Vocal Arts) at the Tchaikovsky Conservatoire of Music,
Moscow
Studied in Germany, Austria and Italy with Fedora Barbieri, Jakob Stämpfly, Walter Berry and Pavel
Lisitzian
Recipient of numerous prizes in singing competitions in Russia, Austria and Spain
Successes with major baritone roles in important opera houses and international music festivals in
Germany, Switzerland, Austria, UK, Russia
Extensive operatic and concert repertoire
Worked with well-known conductors such as Helmut Rilling, Wolfgang Gönnewein, Valeriy Gergiev,
Dmitri Kitayenko and Gennady Rozhdestvensky and with singers including Heather Harper, Renato
Bruson, Carlo Colombara, Mertyle Rowland, Mario Malagnini, Jan-Hendrik Rootering and Nicolai
Gedda
Principal roles in operas including Evgeniy Onegin, Queen of Spades, Iolanta, Faust, Don Pasquale,
La Cenerentola, Don Giovanni, Le Nozze di Figaro, La Bohéme, Manon Lescaut, Madame Butterfly,
Boris Godunov, Prince Igor, Pagliacci, Maria Stuarda, Luisa Miller, I Masnadieri, La Traviata, Xerxes,
Hansel and Gretel, Albert Herring, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Coronation of Poppea, Die
Fledermaus
Repertoire includes important Bach cantatas and oratorios as well as all the major works of Handel,
Mendelssohn, Haydn, Brahms, Beethoven, Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti, Schubert Elgar and Britten
(War Requiem)
Numerous CD, DVD and Video productions of Opera, Oratorio and Lied, as well as Radio and
Television Broadcasts
Since 2003 Professor of Singing at the Franz Liszt University of Music Weimar
Since 2013 Professor of Singing at the Hanns Eisler University of Music Berlin
2003-2016 Professor of Singing at the Robert Schumann University of Music Düsseldorf and
previously at the Detmold Musikhochschule (Dortmund dep. 2000-2003)
Since 2013 Professor of Singing at the Hanns Eisler University of Music Berlin
2003-2016 Professor of Singing at the Robert Schumann University of Music Düsseldorf and
previously at the Detmold Musikhochschule (Dortmund dep. 2000-2003)
2010-2011 Vocal Coach at the "Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar"
Important research in Vocal Pedagogy and Methodology as well as investigation of speech and
singing processes
Has given Master Classes numerous in Italy (Milan), Germany, Switzerland, Austria (Vienna),
Australia (Melba Trust Melbourne), England, Ireland, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Russia (St.
Petersburg), China and Korea
Jury member of the International Singing Competitions "Modest Mussorgsky", Moscow and "Three
Centuries of Classical Romance", St. Petersburg
M. Lanskoi's students include 10 International Singing Competition winners as well as further prize
winners at competitions in Italy, France, Spain, Austria, Germany, Netherlands, Slovakia and Russia
Numerous Graduates and current students perform principal roles in the world's most important opera
houses incl. Teatro Alla Scala, Metropolitan Opera, Wiener Staatsoper, Arena di Verona, State Opera
Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Opéra Bastille, Théâtre du Châtelet (Paris), Opéra du Lyon, San
Francisco Opera, Opera Australia, Bayerische Staatsoper, English National Opera, Semperoper
Dresden, Bolshoi Theater Moscow, La Fenice, Ópera de Bellas Artes Mexico City, Oper Leipzig,
National Oper Helsinki, Norske Opera (Oslo), Estonian National Opera, Stadtteater Bern,
Landestheater Innsbruck as well as in many German opera houses including Düsseldorf, Karlsruhe,
DNT Weimar, Erfurt, Schwerin, Gelsenkirchen, Kiel, Halle, Oldenburg, Würzburg etc.
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