Огненный ангел
Since 1996 Valery was a professor at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory and then worked at the Mariinsky Theatre under guidance from Valery Gergiev. In April 2003 he became choir master of the Bolshoi Theatre where he directed chorus in such operas as Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin", "Mazeppa" and "The Queen of Spades" which were chosen by him in 2004. Besides those operas he also did Rimsky-Korsakov's works such as "The Snow Maiden" and "The Legend of the Invisible City" and Prokofiev's "The Fiery Angel" and "War and Peace".