Graduated from the singing department of the Popov Academy of Choral Art (Professor Vdovin’s class) in 2011. In 2007–2008, he attended the Moscow International Vocal School, where he studied with George Darden (Metropolitan Opera, New York City),Diane Zola and Richard Bado (Houston Grand Opera),Gloria Borelli and Giandomenico Bisi (Conservatoire of Naples). At the gala-concert of the School he and Albina Shagimuratova sang the Figlia!… Mio padre! duet from Verdi’s Rigoletto. He acted as Don Alvaro in the production of Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims staged by students of the opera studio under the Gnesins Russian Academy of Music.
The singer joined the Novaya Opera Theatre in 2009. In 2010, he participated in the tour of the Symphonic Mania show in France. He sang Alidoro in Rossini’s La Cenerentola at the Epiphany Week at Novaya Opera festival in 2011. In 2018 the singer participated in the Mozart. Arias concert at the Veronika Dzhioeva Festival Opera Space.
Awards and Honours:
- Prize-winner of the jury special prize of the Onegin National Opera Award (for the part of Jochanaan in Strauss's Salome, 2016)
- Prize-winner of 4th Ivanov All-Russia Competition (Tver, 2005)
Roles performed at the Novaya Opera:
Onegin in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin
Frank in Korngold's Die tote Stadt
Escamillo in Bizet's Carmen
Tarquinius in Britten's The Rape of Lucretia
Jochanaan in Strauss' Salome
Enrico Ashton in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor
Alidoro in Rossini's La Cenerentola
Valentin in Gounod's Faust
Sharpless in Puccini's Madama Butterfly
Schaunard in Puccini's La bohème
Tsar Nicholas I in Boyarsky's Pushkin
Tadeusz in Weinberg's The Passenger
Kurwenal in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde
Grigory Gryaznoy in Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride
Shchelkalov in Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov
Count Tomsky in Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades
Ibn-Hakia in Tchaikovsky's Iolanta
Alfio in Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana
Count in Strauss's Capriccio
Drosselmeyer in Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker. An Opera
Count Stankar in Verdi's Stiffelio
Germont in Verdi's La Traviata
Shaklovity in Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina (in concert)
Michele in Puccini's Il tabarro (in concert)
Barone Douphol in Verdi's La traviata (in concert)
Count Tomsky in Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades (in concert)
King Roger in Shimanovsky's King Roger (in concert)
An oracle in Gluck's Iphigénie en Taurid (in concert)
Herod in Massenet's Herodiade (in concert)
Christ in Respighi's Christus
High Priest of Dagon in Saint-Saëns' Samson and Delilah (in concert)
Krušina in Smetana's The Bartered Bride (in concert)
Ping in Puccini's Turandot (in concert)
Guido in Rachmaninoff's Monna Vanna (in concert)
Amonasro in Verdi's Aida (in concert)
Parts in the productions:
Parade of Basses and Baritones (gala concert)
Johann Strauss, the Waltz King (gala concert)
Waltzes, Tangos & Foxtrots (gala concert)
Bravissimo! (opera mix)
Rossini (musical divertissement)
This is Opera! (dramatized performance)
Opera&Jazz (New Year's Eve Show)
