Graduated from the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music (Yevgeny Belov’s
class) in 1993. He was a soloist with Moscow’s Novaya
Opera Company (1990-96), Nice Opera (1994-96),
and with Royal Danish Opera (1996-99).
Since 2001, he has
been appearing at the Bolshoi Theatre.
Repertoire
His Bolshoi repertoire includes:
Count Vaudemont
(Iolanta)
Lensky (Eugene
Onegin)
Maurice (Cilea’s Adriana
Lecouvreur)
Andrei (Tchaikovsky’s
Mazeppa)
Riccardo (Un Ballo
in Mascherа)
Ismaele
(Nabucco)
Fenton
(Falstaff)
Anatole Kuragin (Prokofiev’s War and
Peace)
Don Jose (Carmen)
Prince
Yuri (The Enchantress)
The Pretender
(Boris Godunov)
the tenor part in Verdi’s
Requiem
His repertoire also includes:
The Simpleton
(Boris Godunov)
Alfredo
(La Traviata)
Vladimir Igorevich (Borodin’s
Prince Igor)
The Prince (Dargomyzhsky’s
Rusalka)
The Duke
(Rigoletto)
Jacopo (I due
Foscari)
Rodolfo (Luisa Miller)
Don
Ottavio (Don Giovanni)
Edgardo (Lucia
di Lammermoor)
Leicester (Maria
Stuarda)
Levko (Rimsky-Korsakov’s May
Night)
Lykov (The Tsar’s
Bride)
Andrei (Tchaikovsky’s
Oprichnik)
Sinodal (Rubinshtein’s The
Demon)
Young Gypsy (Rakhmaninov’s
Aleko)
Albert (Rakhmaninov’s The Miserly
Knight)
Paolo (Rakhmaninov’s Francesca
da Rimini)
Fisherman (Stravinsky’s
Le Rossignol)
Zinovy Borisovich (The Lady
Macbeth of Mtsensk)
Vakula (Tchaikovsky’s The
Slippers)
Don Antonio (Prokofiev’s Betrothal
in a Monastery)
the tenor parts in Beethoven’s Symphony
No. 9, Rakhmaninov’s The Bells.
Tours
He tours in Europe and the USA: Wexford Festival
Opera (1995, Levko in May Night), Maggio
Musicale Fiorentino (Zinovy Borisovich in The Lady
Macbeth of Mtsensk, conductor James Conlon, director Lev Dodin),
Paris National Opera (2002, 2005, the Simpleton
in Boris Godunov; 2005, Chekalinsky in The Queen
of Spades, director Gennady Rozhdestvensky, director Lev Dodin),
Deutsche Oper Berlin (2001, Alfredo
in La Traviata; 2002, Lensky in Eugene Onegin),
Berlin State Opera (2003, Macduff in Macbeth),
La Scala (2005, Vakula in The Slippers,
conductor Mstislav Rostropovich, director Yuri Alexandrov; 2006, Lensky,
conductor Vladimir Jurowski, director Graham Vick).
He has appeared
at opera houses in Cagliari (Teatro Lirico
di Cagliari, 2002, Andrei in The Oprichnik; 2008,
Lensky in Eugene Onegin), Bologna, Geneva, San
Francisco (2003, Zinovy Borisovich in The Lady Macbeth
of Mtsensk; 2008, the Pretender in Boris Godunov),
Houston, Tel-Aviv (New Israeli Opera), Lisbon (Teatro
Nacional de Sao Carlos, Venice (La Fenice),
Palermo (Teatro Massimo).
In 2006, he sang the
Pretender at Brussels’ Theatre de la Monnaie
(conductor Kazushi Ono, director Klaus Michael Gruber), Alfredo at the
Polish National Opera and Don Antonio in Betrothal
in a Monastery at the Glyndebourne
Festival. In the same year, he took part
in a performance of Rakhmaninov’s The Bells at the
Royal Alvert Hall in London (London Philharmonic, conductor Vladimir
Jurowski).
In 2007, he sang the Pretender at Teatro
Real (Madrid) and appeared with Giuseppe Verdi Symphony Orchestra
directed by Vladimir Jurowski in Milan.
In 2008,
he performed Don Antonio in Betrothal
in a Monastery at the the Palau de les Arts
Reina Sofia (Valencia) and the Prince in Rusalka in Cologne
(Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Mikhail Jurowski).
In 2009,
he sang Andrei (Mazeppa) at the Opera
Ireland, took part in a performance of Mendelssohn
Bartholdy’s Die erste Walpurgisnacht/The First Walpurgis Night
in Pamplona and Rossini’s Stabat Mater
in Lisbon.
In 2010 he appeared at the Savonlinna
Opera Festival as Jose (Carmen).
Recent
engagements have included Sergei in Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk
with the New Israeli Opera (2010-11), Radames in Aida
at the Cologne Opera, Lensky in Eugene
Onegin with Los Angeles Opera, Verdi Requiem with the
Noord Nederlandse Orkest, Rachmaninov’s Songs for Tenor and Orchestra with the
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra (2011); Don José in Carmen with the
Teatro Bellini Catania, Don Alvaro in La Forza
del Destino at the Cologne Opera (2012); Prince Vasiliy Golitsin
in Khovanshchina at Paris National Opera
(2013).
He has CD and DVD recordings.
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