Bass
Born in Dmitrovgrad, Ulyanovsk region. In 200l, he completed his studies at the Kazan Conservatory (Galina Lastovka’s class). While still a second-year student, he took part in a performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem at the Tartar Theatre of Opera and Ballet.
In 2001, he joined the Bolshoi Theatre Opera Company as soloist.
At the Bolshoi Theatre:
- King Rene (Iolanta)
- Khan Konchak (Borodin’s Prince Igor)
- Title role (Boris Godunov)
- Zaccaria (Verdi’s Nabucco)
- Gremin (Eugene Onegin)
- Banquo (Verdi’s Macbeth)
- Dosifey (Khovanshchina)
- Kutuzov (War and Peace)
- Prince Yuri Vsevolodovich (Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and of the Maiden Fevronia)
- Igor Svyatoslavich (Borodin’s Prince Igor)
- Leporello (The Stone Guest)
- Don Basilio (Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia)
- Grand Inquisitor (Verdi’s Don Carlos)
- Miller (Alexander Dargomyzhsky’s Rusalka)
- Sobakin (Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride)
- Aleko, Old Gypsy (Sergei Rañhmaninov’s Aleko)
- Colline (La Boheme)
- Title role (Verdi’s Attila)
- Monterone, Sparafucile (Verdi’sRigoletto)
- Ramfis (Aida)
- Philip (Don Carlos)
- Title role (Arrigo Boito’s Mefistofele)
- Pimen (Boris Godunov)
- Ivan Khovansky (Khovanshchina)
- Baron (Rakhmaninov’s The Miserly Knight)
- Raimondo (Lucia di Lammermoor)
- de Silva (Ernani)
- Ferrando (Il Trovatore)