was born in Russia. His repertoire includes Arturo in Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti), Goro in Madama Butterfly, Rodolfo in La boheme (Puccini), Triquet in Yevgeny Onegin, Vaudemont in Iolanta (Tchaikovsky), the First Sea Captain in The Tale of Tsar Saltan (Rimsky-Korsakov) and many others. This is his Israeli Opera debut.