In 1967, he graduated from the Kiev State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire (D. Yevtushenko’s class).
In 1968, he joined the Bolshoi Theatre Opera Company.
In 1967, he graduated from the Kiev State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire (D. Yevtushenko’s class).
In 1968, he joined the Bolshoi Theatre Opera Company.
Repertoire
His repertoire at the Bolshoi Theatre included the following, among other, roles:
Lykov, Bomelius (Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride)
Chaplitsky, Chekalinsky (The Queen of Spades)
Gaston (La Traviata)
The Duke, Borsa (Rigoletto)
Monsieur de Boesset, Platon Karataev, Host, Abbat, Prince Eugene's Aide-de-camp, Gerard, First madman (Prokofiev’s War and Peace)
Faust (Faust)
Mikola (Prokofiev’s Semyon Kotko)
Gvidon (Rimsky-Korsakov's The Golden Cockerel)
Count Almaviva (Il Barbiere di Siviglia)
First guest (Dargomyzhsky’s The Stone Guest)
Selifan (Shchedrin’s Dead Souls)
The Indian guest (Rimsky-Korsakov's Sadko)
Bakula, Leshy (Rimsky-Korsakov's The Snow Maiden)
Bayan (Glinka’s Ruslan and Ludmila)
Froh (Das Rheingold)
Russian warrior (Glinka’s Ivan Susanin)
Government official (Mussorgsky’s Khovanshchina)
Zinovy Borisovich, First foremen (Shostakovich’s The Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk)
Nireno (Handel's Giulio Cesare)
Court boyar, Missail (Boris Godunov)
Beppo (Pagliacci)
Remendado (Carmen)
Father Elustaf, Pablo, Lay brother (Prokofiev's Betrothal in a Monastery)
Di Lerma (Don Carlo)
Ovlur, Yeroshka (Borodin's Prince Igor )
Schmidt (Werther)
Spoletta (Tosca)
Drunken сossack (Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa)
Novgorodian (Rimsky-Korsakov's Mlada)
Devil (Rimsky-Korsakov's Christmas Eve)
Monsieur Triquet (Eugene Onegin)
Basilio (Le Nozze di Figaro)
Parpignol (La Boheme)
Messenger (Aida)
Almerik (Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta)
Master of ceremonies (Prokofiev’s The Love for Three Oranges)
Abdallo (Nabucco)
Ruiz (Il Trovatore)
Poisson (Adriana Lecouvreur)
Emperor Altoum (Turandot)
Doctor (Prokofiev's The Fiery Angel)
Sleeping car attendant (Desyatnikov's The Children of Rosenthal)
First of the well-off people (Rimsky-Korsakov's The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and of the Maiden Fevronia)
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