Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District
His Andrei in Neeme Järvi's recording of Tchaikovsky's "Mazeppa" placed him in the company of Sergei Leiferkus, Galina Gorchakova, Anatoly Kotcherga, and Larissa Diadkova, the top post-Soviet singers in the 1990s. He also performed as Sergei in Shostakovich's "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District".