Mischa Schelomianski grew up in Moscow. He moved to Germany and studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Frankfurt.

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His eclectic repertoire ranges from baroque music (Seneca in L'Incoronazione di Poppea in Hamburg) to contemporary creations (Daniel Andres’ Derborence in Biel-Solothurn or Fénelon’s La Cerisaie at the Paris Opéra).

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The Russian repertoire holds a special place in his career: he sings the title role in Boris Godunov (Krefeld), Prince Gremin in Evgeny Onegin (Glyndebourne, Geneva, Munich, Enschede, Haifa, Lyon, Limoges, Metz, Reims), King René in Iolanta (Metz, Nancy, Tours), Sobakin in The Tsar's Bride (Frankfurt), Polkan in The Golden Cockerel (Lyon, Aix-en-Provence, Bregenz, Nancy, Adelaide), Father Benedictine in Betrothal in a Monastery (Theater an der Wien, Toulouse, Paris Opéra-Comique), Sourine in The Queen of Spades (Brussels), and Count Rostov in War and Peace (Munich).

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In German, his adopted language, he sings Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte (Köln) and Osmin in Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Kassel, Bremen, Aix-en-Provence, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées), as well as König Marke in Tristan and Isolde (Köln), Daland in The Flying Dutchman (Massy), Don Fernando / Rocco in Fidelio (Nice / Dijon), and Baron Ochs in Der Rosenkavalier (Avignon).

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In Italian, he sings the roles of Leporello / Il Commendatore in Don Giovanni (Vienna Volksoper / Avignon), Sparafucile in Rigoletto (Metz, Reims), Sam / Tom in Un Ballo in Maschera (Frankfurt, Paris Opéra / Hamburg), Lodovico in Otello (Valencia, Bordeaux), Wurm in Luisa Miller (Zurich, Kassel, Tours, Avignon), Timur in Turandot (Dortmund, Strasbourg, Mulhouse, Dijon), and Ramfis in Aida (Metz).

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He also sings The Water Sprite (Vodník) in Rusalka (Glyndebourne, Santiago, Tokyo, Vienna Volksoper, Lübeck, Montpellier, Tours, Marseille, Massy), The Priest and The Badger in The Cunning Little Vixen (Bergen, Glyndebourne, Antwerp, Ghent), Tiresias in Oedipus Rex (Strasbourg, Mulhouse), Quince in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Metz), The Bailli in Werther (Bergen), Friar Laurence in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette (Kaiserslautern), Philip II in the French version of Don Carlos (Hamburg), and Bluebeard in Bartók's Bluebeard’s Castle (Biel-Solothurn, Bregenz).

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His concert repertoire has allowed him to perform with major orchestras in Enescu’s Oedipe, Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass, Verdi’s Requiem, Smetana’s The Bartered Bride, and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Mozart and Salieri.

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This season, he can be heard notably in Marseille (Il Commendatore in Don Giovanni) and Avignon (Osmin in Die Entführung aus dem Serail).

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