Mingiyan Odzhaev

• Honoured Artist of the Republic of Kalmykia (2023)
• Prize-winner at the III International Maksakova Singing Competition in Astrakhan (2^nd prize, 2016)

Born in Elista, Kalmykia, Mingiyan Odzhaev completed his singing studies under professor Natalia K. Tarasova, People’s Artist of Russia, at the Astrakhan State Conservatory in 2018.

Within 2015–2018 Mingiyan Odzhaev was a soloist of the Astrakhan State Opera and Ballet Theatre. In 2018 he was trained under Oleg P. Kulko, People’s Artist of Russia, at the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Center.

He has taken part in a masterclass given by Sergei Leiferkus.

Since September 2021 he has been working with the Opera Company of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre.

In November 2023, on the Historical Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre, Mingiyan Odzhaev performed the part of Beppe in Ruggero Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci being part of the IX Saint Petersburg International Cultural Forum.

In May 2024, as a member of the Opera Company of the Primorsky Stage, he participated in the I Far East Easter Festival.

Repertoire at the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre includes:
The Duke of Mantua (Rigoletto, G. Verdi);
Don Carlo (Don Carlo, G. Verdi);
José (Carmen, G. Bizet);
Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly, G. Puccini);
The Prince of Persia (Turandot, G. Puccini);
Beppe (Pagliacci, R. Leoncavallo);
Ernesto (Don Pasquale, G. Donizetti);
Vaudémont (Iolanta, P. Tchaikovsky);
Andrei (Mazepa, P. Tchaikovsky);
Lensky (Eugene Onegin, P. Tchaikovsky);
Tsarevich Guidon (The Tale of the Tsar Saltan, N. Rimsky-Korsakov);
Tsar Berendey (The Snow Maiden, N. Rimsky-Korsakov);
Prince (The Love for Three Oranges, S. Prokofiev);
Flogged Monk, Prince, Magnetiser, Old Man in the Woods, Storyteller (The Enchanted Wanderer, R. Shchedrin);
Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin (Idiot, A. Smelkov, concert performance)
Alfred (Die Fledermaus, J. Strauss II);
The Female-dog (Zhuchka) (The Turnip, R. Sagdiev);
The Robber (Town Musicians of Bremen, G. Gladkov).

Repertoire also includes:
The Pretender (Boris Godunov, M. Musorgsky);
Prince Andrei Khovansky (Khovanshchina, M. Musorgsky).