
Biography
In 1973, after graduating from the Moscow Conservatoire (Hugo Tits' class), he joined the Bolshoi Theatre Opera Company as soloist.
He teaches at the Moscow Conservatoire.
Repertoire
His Bolshoi Theatre repertoire includes the following, among other, roles:
Bonza, Yakuside (Madama Batterfly)
Antonio (Le Nozze di Figaro)
Grenvil (La Traviata)
Malyuta Skuratov, Sobakin (Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride)
Count Rostov, Tikhon Shcherbatyi, General Benigsen, Marshal Berthier (Prokofiev's War and Peace)
Count Ceprano, Sparafucile (Rigoletto)
Don Bartolo, Don Basilio (Il Barbiere di Siviglia)
Ferrando (Il Trovatore)
Skula (Borodin's Prince Igor)
Ivasenko (Prokofiev's Semyon Kotko)
Don Alfonso (Cosi Fan Tutte)
Second Herald (Rimsky-Korsakov's The Snow Maiden)
Donner (Das Rheingold)
Samuel (Un Ballo in Maschera)
Pimen, Mityusha (Boris Godunov)
Mendoza (Prokofiev’s Betrothal in a Monastery)
Grand Inquisitor (Don Carlo)
Leporello (Dargomyzhsky’s The Stone Guest)
Orlik (Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa)
Surin (The Queen of Spades)
Bertrand (Tchaikovsky's The Maid of Orleans)
Panas (Rimsky-Korsakov's Christmas Eve)
King of Egypt (Aida)
Molchan Mitkov (Tchaikovsky's The Oprichnik)
Keeper of the Madhouse (Stravinsky's The Rake’s Progress)
King of Clubs (Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges)
Doctor, Servant to Macbeth, Murder (Macbeth)
Steward, Sentry (The Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk)
Bertrand (Tchaikovsky's Iolanta)
Sciarrone, A Gaoler (Tosca)
Polkan (Rimsky-Korsakov's The Golden Cockerel)
Alcindoro (La Boheme)
Awards
4th prize-winner at the Glinka All-Union Competition of Singers (1973).
1st prize-winner at the International Competition of Vocalists in Toulouse (1974).
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