Mikhail Lukonin graduated from the Music School in Nizhny Novgorod (f. Gorky) as trombone player, and after that, this time as a singer, from the M.I. Glinka Conservatory in Nizhny Novgorod. While still a student of the Conservatory, Mikhail Lukonin was invited as a soloist to the Nizhny Novgorod Opera Theatre, where he performed, in several years, many primary parts of lyrical baritone: Onegin (Eugene Onegin), Robert (Iolanta), Prince Yeletsky (Queen of Spades), Schelkalov (Boris Godunov), Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Germont (La Traviata), Rodrigo di Posa (Don Karlo), Silvio (L pagliacci) etc.
Since 1992 Mr. Lukonin has been a soloist of the Sankt–Peterburg Opera, where he has played and sung several noticeable roles in comical operas of Donicetti, and performed a number of parts in operas of today's repertoire. Since 2000 he has been a soloist of the St. – Petersburg Musical Comedy Theatre.
As a soloist, and as a member of the ensemble Neva, the singer often performs in solo concerts in cities of Russia and other European countries (Poland, Finland, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Switzerland, Italy). He has recorded several compact discs and large programs for radio.