As Malyuta Skuratov in The Tsar’s Bride. Photo by Damir Yusupov.
As Malyuta Skuratov in The Tsar’s Bride.
Photo by Damir Yusupov.
As Malyuta Skuratov in The Tsar’s Bride. Photo by Damir Yusupov.
As Malyuta Skuratov
in The Tsar’s Bride.
Photo by Damir Yusupov.
As Khan Konchak in Prince Igor. Photo by Damir Yusupov.
As Khan Konchak in Prince Igor.
Photo by Damir Yusupov.
As Bedyay in  he Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and of the Maiden Fevronia. Photo by Damir Yusupov.
As Bedyay in he Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and of the Maiden Fevronia.
Photo by Damir Yusupov.
As Varlaam in Boris Godunov. Photo by Damir Yusupov.
As Varlaam in Boris Godunov.
Photo by Damir Yusupov.
As Varlaam in Boris Godunov. Photo by Damir Yusupov.
As Varlaam in Boris Godunov.
Photo by Damir Yusupov.
As King of Clubs in  The Love for Three Oranges. Photo by Damir Yusupov.
As King of Clubs in The Love for Three Oranges.
Photo by Damir Yusupov.
As General Epanchin in  The Idiot. Photo by Damir Yusupov.
As General Epanchin in The Idiot.
Photo by Damir Yusupov.
As Benoit in  La Boheme. Andrei Zhilikhovsky as Marcello.Photo by Damir Yusupov.
As Benoit in La Boheme.
Andrei Zhilikhovsky as Marcello.
Photo by Damir Yusupov.
As Priest in  Katerina Izmailova. Photo by Damir Yusupov.
As Priest in Katerina Izmailova.
Photo by Damir Yusupov.

Nearest performances

Le Nozze di Figaro 19 October20 October
Tosca 24 October26 October

Awards

In 1998, he won a Philip Morris-Debut prize for the best operatic debut of the 1997-98 season; the S.I. Bugayov Fund prize; the Paradise prize (Novosibirsk). He is winner of the Siberian Fair gold medal. Winner of the Golden Mask National Theatre prize (for his performance in V. Kobekin’s opera Young David, Novosibirsk, 2000).

						

Biography

Graduated from Novosibirsk State Conservatory (Alexei Levitsky’s class).
From 1994, soloist with the Novosibirsk State Theatre of Opera and Ballet.
From 2000, soloist with Moscow’s Novaya Opera Company.
Since 2002, he has been a soloist with the Bolshoi Theatre Opera Company.

Repertoire

His repertoire at the Bolshoi Theatre includes the following roles:
Frost, Second Town Crier (Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Snow Maiden)
Ivan Khovansky (Mussorgsky’s Khovanshchina)
Orlik (Tchaikovsky’s Mazeppa)
King of Clubs (Prokofiev’s The Love for Three Oranges)
Sobakin, Malyuta Skuratov (Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride)
Inquisitor (Prokofiev’s The Fiery Angel)
Varlaam (Boris Godunov)
Title role (Glinka’s Ivan Susanin)
Polkan (Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Golden Cockerel)
Daland (Der Fliegende Hollaender)
Farlaf (Ruslan and Ludmila)
Boris Timofeyevich (Shostakovich’s The Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk)
Mussorgsky (Desyatnikov’s The Children of Rosenthal)
Sarastro (Die Zauberfloete)
Balaga, General Yermolov (Prokofiev’s War and Peace)
Uncle Bonze (Madama Butterfly)
Zaretsky, A Company Commander (Eugene Onegin)
Bedyay (Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and of the Maiden Fevronia)
First Apprentice (Wozzeck)
Police inspector, Notary (Der Rosenkavalier)
Kichiga, Mamyrov (The Enchantress)
Khan Konchak (Borodin’s Prince Igor)
The Old Robber Woman (Banevich’s The Story of Kai and Gerda)
Surin (The Queen of Spades)
Antonio (Le Nozze di Figaro)
Priest (Katerina Izmailova)
Statue of the Commander, Laura’s guest (The Stone Guest)
Sergeant of the Royal Archers, Innkeeper (Manon Lescaut by Puccini)
General Epanchin (The Idiot by Weinberg)
Benoit (Puccini’s La Bohème)
Bear-keeper / Tsar Ivan (Bernstein’s Candide)
Antonio (Rossini’s Il Viaggio a Reims)
Flemish Deputy (Verdi’s Don Carlo)
Whistle (Rimsky-Korsakov's Sadko)
A Jailer (Puccini’s Tosca)

Also in repertoire:
Gremin (Eugene Onegin)
Miller (Dargomyzhsky’s Rusalka)
Ramfis (Aida)
Colline, Benoit (La Boheme)
Abimelech, An old hebrew (Samson et Dalila)
Ghost of Hamlet’s father (Thomas’ Hamlet)
Loredano (Verdi’s I Due Foscari)
Sparafucile (Rigoletto)

Tours

Toured in Portugal, Spain, Thailand.
He sang the part of Boris Timofeyevich (The Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk) in Spain, Italy, France, Germany and the Argentine in 2000 as part of the Mstislav Rostropovich world project.
In 2005, he took part in a concert performance of Stravinsky’s Le Rossignol in Copenhagen (conductor Alexander Vedernikov).

Discography

Glinka’s Ruslan and Lyudmila — Farlaf, conductor A. Vedernikov, PentaTone сlassic, 2004.