Сказка о царе Салтане
His first engagements in his native Russia took him to the Stanislavsky Theatre in Moscow, also known as Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre, as Guest Opera Soloist, where he sang Prince Gvidon in Rimsky-Korsakov's "The Tale of Tsar Saltan", Nemorino in "L'elisir d'amore" and Ferrando in "Così fan tutte". At the Stanislavsky Theatre he also studied the parts of Alfredo Germont ("La Traviata") and Lensky ("Eugene Onegin").