Awards

Third Prize of the International Elena Obraztsova Competition for Young Opera Singers (Saint-Petersburg, 2003).
First Prize of the Belvedere International Competition (Vienna, 2004).

Biography

Graduated from the Gnesin Academy of Music (Professor Levko’s class) in 2000. In the same year he became first a trainee and then a staff member of the Novaya Opera Theatre (Moscow).

Repertoire

Hamlet (Thomas’ Hamlet)
Shchelkalov (Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov)
Mizgir, Second Herald (Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Snow Maiden)
Robert (Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta)
Aeneas (Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas)
Papageno (Die Zauberfloete)
Figaro (Il Barbiere di Siviglia)
Marullo (Rigoletto)
Germont (La Traviata)
Silvio (Pagliacci)
Belcore (L’Elisir d’Amore)
Gianni Schicchi (Gianni Schicchi)
Jokanaan (Strauss’ Salome)
baritone parts in Beethoven’s Welsh Songs and in the productions “Rossini”, “Bravissimo!”, “Bellini”, “Music Is My Soul”, “Opera@Jazz”, and “Maria Callas”

In 2010, he made his Bolshoi Theatre debut as Papageno (Die Zauberfloete).