"Even minor roles featured fine voices, notable among them bass Alexander Savtchenko's Sacristan."
TOSCA, MONTREAL OPERA
The Gazette, llse Zadrozny; September 9, 1991

"...the Kiev-trained, splendidly secure bass of Alexander Savtchenko (a recent arrival in Canada), made the late entrance of Samiel well worth waiting for."
DER FREISCHÜTZ, OPERA IN CONCERT
Opera Canada Spring 1991, Peter Dyson