Mikhail Gubsky is the Honoured Artist of Russia. He was a prize-winner at the Nikolai Pechkovsky Competition (St Petersburg, 1996), Mikhail Glinka Singing Competition (Samara, 1997), Stanisław Moniuszko Vocal Competition (Warsaw, 1998), participant of the Sobinov Musical Festival (Saratov, 2000).
For the first time Gubsky performed on our stage within the gala concert prepared here by opera diva Irina Arkhipova after the Glinka International Competition of Vocalists. Later, as a guest soloist, Mikhail performed the roles of Calaf and Herman in Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot and Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades.
Mikhail Gubsky has taken part in numerous international projects in the USA, Canada, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Japan, Finland, Slovenia, Poland, Russia and Cyprus. He worked with world famous conductors such as Mstislav Rostropovich, Mikhail Pletnev, Vladimir Spivakov, Yevgeny Kolobov, Fuat Mansurov, Alexander Vedernikov, Mark Ermler, Yuri Kochnev, Vladimir Kovalenko.
Gubsky’s repertoire includes more than 60 roles in operas by Giuseppe Verdi (Alfredo in La Traviata and Duke in Rigoletto), Gaetano Donizetti (Nemorino in L’Elisir d’Amore and Guglielmo in Viva la Mamma), Pyotr Tchaikovsky (Lensky in Eugene Onegin, Vakula in The Slippers and Vaudemont in Iolantа), Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (Mozart in Mozart and Salieri, King Berendey in The Snow Maiden, Lykov in The Tsar’s Bride), Sergey Rachmaninov (Paolo in Francesca da Rimini and Young Gipsy in Aleko), Giacomo Puccini (Rodolfo in La boheme), Stanisław Moniuszko (Pan Damazy in The Haunted Manor) and many others.