Mikhail Tatarnikov

Introduction

Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Mikhailovsky Theatre, St Petersburg to which he was appointed in January 2012.

Mikhail is renowned for his versatility in the opera pit with a wide ranging repertoire including Berlioz, Donizetti, Leoncavallo, Massenet, Mozart, Rossini, Strauss and Wagner as well as an extensive knowledge of Slavic scores. More recent highlights included Nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni at Opera de Bordeaux and a new production of Onegin at the Latvian National Opera in Riga.

This season Mikhail will conduct numerous productions at the Mariinsky and Mikhailovsky Theatres St Petersburg including new productions of Billy Budd, Romeo et Juliet, Onegin and Pique Dame as well as Eugene Onegin at Teatro alla Scala Milan, Rusalka at Bayerische Staatsoper, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. He will conduct concerts with Dmitri Hvorostovsky at the Moscow House of Music and the St Petersburg Philharmonic Society as well as a giving his long anticipated UK debut with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, followed by an appearance at the London Coliseum with the Mikhailovsky Ballet.

In future seasons he will conduct a new production of Love for 3 Oranges Latvian National Opera, the opening of the Ballet Season at Teatro alla Scala with an all Ratmansky programme including a world premiere, a new production of the Enchantress at Theater an der Wien, Onegin at Opera de Bordeaux, the Gambler at Opera de Monte-Carlo and concerts with City of Birmingham Symphony, Danish National Symphony,as well as with the Mariinsky and Mikhailovsky Orchestras

Past invitations have included orchestras such as Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Russian National Orchestra (with whom he has appeared on tour in Dresden and Philadelphia), Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Gävle Symphony, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo (with Vilde Frang), Orchestra Filharmonica di Bologna, Orchestre National de Bordeaux Aquitaine, Novosibirsk Philharmonic, Latvian National Symphony Orchestra and National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia.

Mikhail has also worked with renowned soloists including Anna Netrebko, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Vilde Frang, Jennifer Larmore and Vadim Repin.

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Repertoire

CONCERT REPERTOIRE

BEETHOVEN
Symphonies 1,2,3,5,7,8
Violin concerto
Leonora 3
Egmont

BRAHMS
Symphonies 2 and 4
Haydn variations

DVORAK
Symphony 9

MENDELSSOHN
Symphony 3

MOZART
Symphonies 1,31,35,39,40,41
Piano concerto 24 and 25
Overtures:   
Don Giovanni
Le Nozze di Figaro
Die Zauberflöte
Cosi fan tutte

PERGOLESI
Stabat Mater

PROKOFIEV
Symphonies 2,5,7
Concertos for piano 1 and 3
Violin concerto 2
Cello concerto
Peter and the Wolf

RAVEL
La Valse

ROSSINI
Overtures:
Il Barbiere di Siviglia
La gazza ladra
Semiramis


SHCHEDRIN
The Enchanted Wanderer

SCHOENBERG
Pierrot Lunaire

SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphonies 1,9 and 11
Concerto for piano, trumpet and for strings
"The Young Lady and the hooligan"

STRAVINSKY
Symphony in C

TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphonies 1,3,4,5,6
Romeo and Juliet
Overture 1812
Serenade for strings
Piano concerto 1 and 2
Violin concerto

WAGNER
Overtures:   
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Rienzi
Tannhäuser


OPERA/BALLETT REPERTOIRE


BERLIOZ
Les Troyens

BRITTEN
Billy Budd

DONIZETTI
Lucia di Lammermoor

DVORAK
Rusalka
 
MASSENET
Don Quichotte

LEONCAVALLO
I pagliacci

MOZART
Le Nozze di Figaro
Magic Flute
Don Giovanni

PROKOFIEV
Ballets:
Cinderella
Romeo and Julia
Prodigal Son
Operas:
Love for Three Oranges
Maddalena
Betrothal in a Monastery

PUCCINI
La Boheme

RAHMANINOV
The Miserly Knight

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
May Night
Christmas Eve
Sadko
Kashchei the Immortal
The Maid of Pskov

ROSSINI
Opera:
Il viaggio a Reims

STRAUSS
Elektra

STRAVINSKY
Capriccio
Apollo
L'histoire du soldat
Petrushka

TCHAIKOVSKY
Eugene Onegin (Ballet and Opera)
Iolanta
Queen of Spades
Mazeppa
The Enchantress

WAGNER
Der Fliegende Holländer
Tristan und Isolde

BALANCHINE
Serenade
Jewels

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Press

J.S Bach

Multiplicity. Forms of Silence and Emptiness

English National Opera

"The orchestra conducted by Mikhail Tatarnikov performs Bach’s music exceptionally well, effectively supporting the choreography and the dancers" Margarida Mota-Bull for Seen and Heard

Arensky, Prokofiev,Tchaikovsky

Royal Scottisch National Orchestra

Usher Hall Edinburgh and Royal Concert Hall Glasgow

"Mikhail Tatarnikov, a late stand-in for an indisposed Neeme Järvi, had an impressive sense of the work’s architecture and he orientated it around the recurrences of Manfred’s theme which seemed to act like a baleful influence, directing the music into dark and ominous regions every time it appeared.
He managed to strike sparks with Nikolai Lugansky, too, in the Prokofiev concerto. Tatarnikov seemed most taken with the work’s quirky, even cheeky side." Simon Thompson for Seen and Heard International
"Mikhail Tatarnikov’s baton, replacing that of a convalescing Neeme Järvi, moved with an elegance which matched Arensky’s phrases, before being put aside for the remainder of the programme."

Alan Coady for Bachtrack

Mozart

Don Giovanni and Le Nozze di Figaro

Opera de Bordeaux

"Dans la fosse, Mikhail Tatarnikov déploie une belle énergie qui porte le drame du début à la fin sans jamais faiblir, tout en ménageant de belles parenthèses de poésie, comme les airs du Cherubino ou de la Comtesse.L’Orchestre National de Bordeaux Aquitaine maintient un très bel engagement, mais manque parfois d’un peu de nuances aux cordes, là où les bois sont d’une grande élégance. L’alchimie entre Bordeaux, Laurent Laffargue et Mikhail Tatarnikov opère une fois encore, nous livrant un spectacle de grande qualité. Après Don Giovanni et Les Noces de Figaro, la trilogie Da Ponte pourrait-elle être complété par un Cosi fan tutte de la même tenue ? [...] Encore une fois, Mikhail Tatarnikov tire le meilleur de l’Orchestre National de Bordeaux Aquitaine, osant même des changements de tempo originaux et très efficaces. On aurait pu espérer comme dans les Noces de Figaro davantage de nuances, mais le dynamisme insufflé compense cela avec brio. Une reprise réussie, portée par un plateau vocal aux nombreuses pépite,  surveiller et à suivre"
Raphaël Dor for CLASSIQUENEWS.FR
"Une fête pour les yeux et pour les oreilles, égayée aussi par l'excellente prestation de l'Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, dirigée par Mikhail Tatarnikov"
Giada Affaticati for Aqui!
"Le jeune chef russe Mikhail Tatarnikov empoigne l’ensemble d’une main de fer, avec une inépuisable énergie et une grande efficacité. La mise en place est parfaite"
Emmanuel Andrieu for Concertonet

Janáček

The Makropoulos Case

Mariinsky Theatre

"In the absence of Valery Gergiev, the premiere was conducted by aspiring young conductor Mikhail Tatarnikov, already a regular with the Mariinsky Symphony Orchestra and one of the most promising up-and-coming conductors in the country. Tatarnikov makes the most of the orchestra in Janacek’s neurotic and figdeting score, which provides a striking contract to the Czech composer’s other exuberantly melodic operas born out of his fascination with Moravian folklore."
Galina Stolyarova for The St Petersburg Times