Grigory Karasev

Grigory Karasev was born in Leningrad. He graduated from the Leningrad State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire in 1977, having studied vocals under Professor N.A. Serval. After graduating from the Conservatoire he joined the Mariinsky Opera Company.

Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre:
Russian Commander and Polish Commander (A Life for the Tsar)
Ruslan (Ruslan and Lyudmila)
Skula (Prince Igor)
Old Servant (The Demon)
Molchan Mitkov (The Oprichnik)
Prince Gremin (Eugene Onegin)
Orlik (Mazepa)
Potap and Foka (The Enchantress)
Surin (The Queen of Spades)
Ivan the Terrible (The Maid of Pskov)
Nikitich and Bailiff (Boris Godunov)
Duda and a Viking Merchant (Sadko)
Patsyuk (Christmas Eve)
Storm-Bogatyr (Kashchey the Immortal)
Bediay, Burunday and Beggar Singer (The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya)
Old Gypsy (Aleko)
Virgil's Shadow (Francesca da Rimini)
Teiresias (Oedipus Rex)
Baron Wurmerhelm and the Director (The Gambler)
Tchelio and Cook (The Love for Three Oranges)
Remenyuk (Semyon Kotko)
Brother Benedictine (Betrothal in a Monastery)
General Yermolov, the Bolkonskys’ Butler, Gavrila, Captain Ramballe and Tikhon Shcherbaty (War and Peace)
Priest (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk)
Peter I (Andrey Petrov's Peter I)
Mizhuyev (Dead Souls)
Mayakovsky (Andrey Petrov's Mayakovsky Begins)
Grigory Melikhov (Ivan Dzerzhinsky's Quiet Flows the Don)
Nicholas I (Yuri Shaporin's The Decembrists)
General (The Carriage)
Don Basilio (Il barbiere di Siviglia)
Raimondo Bidebent (Lucia di Lammermoor)
Don Pasquale (Don Pasquale)
Sparafucile and Monterone (Rigoletto)
Ferrando (Il trovatore)
The Alcalde and Marchese di Calatrava (La forza del destino)
The Grand Inquisitor and a Monk (Don Carlo)
The King of Egypt (Aida)
Barnabotto (La Gioconda)
Pistol (Falstaff)
Major-domo (Andrea Chénier, concert performance)
Cesare Angelotti (Tosca)
Ashby (La fanciulla del West)
Pinellino (Gianni Schicchi)
Timur (Turandot)
Méphistophélès (Faust)
Don Bartolo (Le nozze di Figaro)
Commander (Don Giovanni)
A Brabantian Noble (Lohengrin)
Fafner (Das Rheingold)
Titurel (Parsifal)

Grigory Karasev has performed at numerous renowned theatres and concert venues. He has toured to Rotterdam and Lisbon in addition to appearances at Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, the Royal Opera House (Covent Garden), La Scala and Vienna's Konzerthaus. He was a guest soloist with the New Israeli Opera, La Fenice and the Metropolitan Opera. Took part in the Moscow Easter Festival.