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Was born in Lugansk (Ukraine). He is a graduate of the
Kharkov Conservatory. His honours include First Prize at the Salomea
Krushelnytska Competition in Lviv (1991). In 19821992 he was a member of
the Perm Opera company, followed by several seasons with the Bolshoi
Theatre and the New Opera in Moscow. In 1997 he joined the Mariinsky
Theatre (formerly Kirov Opera), with which he sang in leading opera houses,
including the Metropolitan, the Covent Garden and La Scala. He has also
appeared in music theatres in Japan, France, Germany, Holland, Belgium,
Turkey, Portugal, Finland, Argentina, Sweden and Australia.
In 2002 he made his debut with the Metropolitan Opera as Napoleon in
Prokofiev1s War and Peace. In July he appeared there again, this time with
the Mariinsky Theatre, in Rimsky-Korsakov1s The Legend of the Invisible
City of Kitezh and Prokofiev1s Semyon Kotko. Mozhaev1s forthcoming
engagements include the title role in Wagner1s Der fliegende Holländer at
the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires (cond. Charles Dutoit), as well as roles
in Shostakovich1s Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District at the Royal Opera
House in Stockholm, Prokofiev1s War and Peace in Tokyo, and in Wagner1s
Das Rheingold (Donner) and in Gotterdammerung (Gunther) at the
Festspielhaus Baden-Baden.
His repertoire also includes
a wide range of roles in Romantic operas by Russian and Italian composers,
and in Wagner1s music drama (including Amforas in Parsifal).
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