The Russian tenor Maxim Mironov was born in Tula and studied at Moscow’s Gnessin Russian Academy of Music with Dmitry Vdovin. In 2002 he made his debut at Moscow’s Helikon Opera in Grétry’s Pierre le Grand and the following year he won second prize in the international singing competition Neue Stimmen.
Since his debut Maxim Mironov has performed at leading international opera houses and at prestigious festivals, among them the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Vienna State Opera, La Scala, Milan, the Paris Opéra, the Glyndebourne Festival, the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, the Baden-Baden Festspielhaus, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the Royal Opera House Muscat, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Hamburg State Opera, the Semperoper Dresden, La Monnaie in Brussels, the New National Theatre in Tokyo, the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, the Ópera de Las Palmas, the Opera Vlaanderen in Antwerp, the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro and the Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg.
In 2011 he made his US debut as Don Narciso (Il turco in Italia) at the Los Angeles Opera, where he returned in 2018 as Orphée (Orphée et Eurydice). He has also appeared at the Washington National Opera as Don Ramiro (La Cenerentola).
A renowned interpreter of Rossini, Maxim Mironov has sung such parts as Lindoro (L’italiana in Algeri), the title role of Le Comte Ory, Count Almaviva (Il barbiere di Siviglia) and Conte di Libenskof (Il viaggio a Reims). His other roles include Riccardo Percy (Anna Bolena), Ernesto (Don Pasquale) and Tonio (La Fille du régiment).
Maxim Mironov has worked with leading conductors including Alberto Zedda, Donato Renzetti, Bruno Campanella, Evelino Pidò, Vladimir Jurowski, Michele Mariotti, Claudio Scimone, Jesús López-Cobos, Giuliano Carella, Gianandrea Noseda and Riccardo Frizza, and with directors such as Pier Luigi Pizzi, Dario Fo, Toni Servillo, Giancarlo Del Monaco, Daniele Abbado, Irina Brook and Peter Hall.
Most recently, Maxim Mironov has sung Conte di Libenskof and Elvino (La sonnambula) at the Dresden Semperoper, where he will return in June 2023 as Don Ramiro. He has also made acclaimed house debuts at the Theater an der Wien (Giannetto in La gazza ladra) and at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo (Oronte in Alcina).
