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'''Mikhail Agrest''' is a [[Russia]]n conductor, who has worked since 2001 at the [[Mariinsky Theatre]]. |
'''Mikhail Agrest''' is a [[Russia]]n conductor, who has worked since 2001 at the [[Mariinsky Theatre]]. |
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Mikhail Agrest is a Russian conductor, who has worked since 2001 at the Mariinsky Theatre.
Biography
Mikhail Agrest was born and raised in St. Petersburg. He immigrated to the United States with his family as a teenager and received a degree in violin performance from the Indiana University at Bloomington where he studied with Josef Gingold. He then followed his true passion back to St. Petersburg to study conducting from the legendary Ilya Musin and Mariss Jansons at the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire. In the summer of 2000 and 2001 Mikhail Agrest trained at the Aspen Music Festival’s American Academy of Conducting under David Zinman and Jorma Panula.
He joined the Mariinsky Theatre in 2001. In July 2003 with the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, Mikhail Agrest made his Metropolitan Opera debut with Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya, and his debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, with the ballets Le Sacre du printemps and Les Noces. Mikhail Agrest went on to lead a production of Tosca at the Swedish National Opera, Don Giovanni at Opera Australia, as well as the award-winning new production of Jenufa at the English National Opera, directed by David Alden. The triumph of his La Bohème at the Finnish National Opera led to invitations for several more projects including a new production of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin in 2017.