was born in in Russia. He has conducted, among others, L’amour des Trois Oranges, Peter and the Wolf (Prokofiev), Lo sposo di tre e il marito di nessuna (Cherubini), Don Pasquale (Donizetti), Mozart and Salieri, The Golden Cockerel (Rimsky-Korsakov), at the Komische Oper Berlin, Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, The Teatro Dal Verme di Milano and many others, including a tour through 23 theatres in Northern Italy. He has recently conducted Trittico ‘900 with texts by Max Jakob, Bruo Cagli and Edith Sitwell and music by Poulenc, Renosto and Walton at the Teatro nazionale di Roma.