[2] His international career was launched in 1989, when he sang Shaklovity in the Vienna Staatsoper's Khovanshchina, conducted by Claudio Abbado.
He performed as Boris Godunov at the 1994 Salzburg Easter and Summer festivals, and he has been particularly associated with the part, singing it in Venice, Turin, Montpellier and with the Vienna Staatsoper in Japan.
Other roles include the Commendatore, Sparafucile, Pistola, Banquo, and the Grand Inquisitor.
Non-operatic work includes Mussorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death,[3] Shostakovich's 13th Symphony and Janáček's Glagolitic Mass.
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