In the second performance of the 10th International Festival Stars Parade at the Opera The Queen of Spades by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, the principal singer of the Hvorostovsky Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre, baritone Alexander Mikhaliov performs the part of Prince Yeletsky for the first time.

Alexander has already taken part in the opening of the festival - the Gala Verdi concert: along with Honoured Artist of Russia Vera Baranova, he performed the part of Giorgio Germont of Verdi’s La Traviata.

Krasnoyarsk is a hometown of Alexander Mikhaliov. He graduated from the Conductor and Choir Department of the Krasnoyarsk School of Arts, between 2001 and 2006 he studied at the Krasnoyarsk Academy of Music and Theatre to receive a degree in Composition (class of Professor  O.L. Prostitova). In 2006, he joined the Union of Composers of Russia and became a principal singer within the opera company of the Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre touring extensively in the cities of our vast region.