was born in Russia. His repertoire includes Nemorino in L'elisir d'amore (Donizetti), Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini), Jaquino in Fidelio (Beethoven), Ferrando in Cosi fan tutte (Mozart), Arturo in Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti), Alfredo in La traviata (Verdi), Bayan in Ruslan and Ludmila (Glinka), the Astrologer in The Golden Cockerel (Rimsky-Korsakov), Sinodal in The Demon (Rubinstein) and many others. He performed in Latvia, the USA, South Korea and Italy. This is his Israeli Opera debut.