was born in Russia. His repertoire includes Alfredo in La traviata, Rodolfo in Luisa Miller, Renato in Un ballo in maschera (Verdi), Maurizio in Adriana Lecouvreur (Cilea), Levko in May Night (Rimsky Korsakov), Fernando in La favorita (Donizetti),  Prince Guidon in The Golden Cockerel (Rimsky Korsakov), the title role in Oedipus Rex (Stravinsky), Lensky in Yevgeni Onegin (Tchaikovsky), Kuragin in War and Peace (Prokofiev), Macduff in Macbeth (Verdi), Dmitry in Boris Godunov (Mussorgsky), Don Jose in Carmen (Bizet), the Prince in Rusalka (Dvorak) and many others. He performs regularly at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, La Scala and the opera houses of Nice, Houston, Copenhagen, Paris, Bologna, Warsaw, Valencia, Berlin, Geneva, Palermo, San Francisco, Lisbon, Brussels, Madrid, Florence and the opera houses of Russia. At the Israeli Opera he performed Fenton in Falstaff (Verdi).