Belarusian opera singer (baritone) and a principal soloist of the Mariinsky Theatre.
Born in 1976 in Maladzyechna, Belarus, he received his musical education at the M.K. Oginsky Maladzyechna State Music College. He continued his studies at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory and was a soloist with the Mariinsky Theatre's Academy of Young Singers from 2000 to 2004. He has been a principal soloist of the Mariinsky Theatre since 2004.
On the stage of the Mariinsky Theatre, he has performed more than thirty leading roles, including: Yevgeny Onegin in Tchaikovsky's Yevgeny Onegin, Yeletsky in The Queen of Spades (Pikovaya Dama), Shaklovity in Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina, Grigory Gryaznoy in Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride (Tsarskaya Nevesta), Scarpia in Puccini's Tosca, Title roles in Verdi's Macbeth, Rigoletto, and Simon Boccanegra, Amonasro in Aida, Renato in Un Ballo in Maschera, Guy de Montfort in Les Vêpres Siciliennes, Iago in Otello, Valentin in Gounod's Faust.
As a guest artist, he has performed at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, the Basel Theatre, the Malmö Opera, the Latvian National Opera, the Dallas Opera, the Stuttgart Opera, the Edinburgh Festival, the Salzburg Festival, the Savonlinna Opera Festival, the Baltic Sea Festival, and the Opera Festival in St. Margarethen, Austria.
He is a laureate of several prestigious awards, including: The Golden Sofit (Zolotoy Sofit), St. Petersburg's highest theatre prize, for Best Male Role in an Opera Production for his performance of Simon Boccanegra at the Mariinsky Theatre (2016). The National Opera Award "Onegin" for his role as Guy de Montfort in Les Vêpres Siciliennes (2017). The Russian opera prize Casta Diva twice, in the categories "Singer of the Year" (2017) and "Ensble of the Year" (2022; for a concert performance of Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa at the Berlin Philharmonie).
Born in 1976 in Maladzyechna, Belarus, he received his musical education at the M.K. Oginsky Maladzyechna State Music College. He continued his studies at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory and was a soloist with the Mariinsky Theatre's Academy of Young Singers from 2000 to 2004. He has been a principal soloist of the Mariinsky Theatre since 2004.
On the stage of the Mariinsky Theatre, he has performed more than thirty leading roles, including: Yevgeny Onegin in Tchaikovsky's Yevgeny Onegin, Yeletsky in The Queen of Spades (Pikovaya Dama), Shaklovity in Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina, Grigory Gryaznoy in Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride (Tsarskaya Nevesta), Scarpia in Puccini's Tosca, Title roles in Verdi's Macbeth, Rigoletto, and Simon Boccanegra, Amonasro in Aida, Renato in Un Ballo in Maschera, Guy de Montfort in Les Vêpres Siciliennes, Iago in Otello, Valentin in Gounod's Faust.
As a guest artist, he has performed at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, the Basel Theatre, the Malmö Opera, the Latvian National Opera, the Dallas Opera, the Stuttgart Opera, the Edinburgh Festival, the Salzburg Festival, the Savonlinna Opera Festival, the Baltic Sea Festival, and the Opera Festival in St. Margarethen, Austria.
He is a laureate of several prestigious awards, including: The Golden Sofit (Zolotoy Sofit), St. Petersburg's highest theatre prize, for Best Male Role in an Opera Production for his performance of Simon Boccanegra at the Mariinsky Theatre (2016). The National Opera Award "Onegin" for his role as Guy de Montfort in Les Vêpres Siciliennes (2017). The Russian opera prize Casta Diva twice, in the categories "Singer of the Year" (2017) and "Ensble of the Year" (2022; for a concert performance of Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa at the Berlin Philharmonie).
