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Тенор
• People´s Artist of Russia (1983)
• Recipient of the State Prize of the USSR (1985)
• Prize-winner at international competitions, among them the Erkel
Competition (Budapest, Hungary), the Viotti Competition (Vercelli,
Italy, 1976) and the Pleven competition of prize-winners of
International Competitions (Bulgaria, 1978)
• Order of Honour (2008)
Graduated from the Leningrad State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire in 1975 (class of Professor Olkhovsky). Trained at La Scala (1977–78 season). In 1982 he was awarded a bust of Giuseppe Verdi and a diploma as
best foreign singer of the season by the Italian Music Society for his
performances as Gabriele in Simon Boccanegra alongside Abbado, Freni, Capuccili and Gyaurov. Has performed at the Wiener Staatsoper under the baton of Claudio Abbado, singing the roles of Lensky, Dmitry, Prince Golitsyn, Herman
and Cavaradossi. At the 1990 Salzburg Festival he performed as Don Juan
(Dargomyzhsky´s The Stone Guest).
Mariinsky Theatre soloist since 1980.
His repertoire includes over fifty roles from Russian and European operas.
Roles performed at the Mariinsky Theatre include:
Finn, Bayan (Ruslan and Lyudmila)
the Pretender (Boris Godunov)
Golitsyn, Andrei Khovansky (Khovanshchina)
Lensky (Eugene Onegin)
Andrei (Mazepa)
Alexei (The Gambler)
Edgardo (Lucia di Lammermoor)
Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly)
Luigi (Il tabarro)
Rinuccio (Gianni Schicchi)
Des Grieux (Manon Lescaut)
Don José (Carmen)
Has toured to Italy, France, Spain, the USA, Japan, China, Canada,
Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Austria,
Luxemburg and Israel to great acclaim.
Audio and video recordings include The Queen of Spades, Ruslan and Lyudmila, Khovanshchina, Gianni Schicchi, La forza del destino, War and Peace and Iolanta as well as the concert films All about You, My Russia and Georgy Sviridov. He has recorded three solo discs of chamber works by Russian and foreign composers.
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