Awards

Tcherniakov was awarded the Golden Mask for Best Director of Opera for the following productions:

• 2002: Rimsky-Korsakov's The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya.^[1]
• 2004: Igor Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress.^[2]
• 2005: Giuseppe Verdi's Aida.^[3]
• 2008: Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin.^[4]

Opera

• 1998 – Vladimir Kobekin's Young David; world premiere at the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre.
• 2001 – Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov's The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya conducted by Valeri Gergiev at Mariinsky Theatre.
• 2003 – Igor Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress at the Bolshoi Theatre.
• 2004 – Giuseppe Verdi's Aida at Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre.
• 2004 – Mikhail Glinka's A Life for the Tsar at the Mariinsky Theatre.
• 2005 – Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde at the Mariinsky Theatre.
• 2005 – Modest Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov conducted by Daniel Barenboim at the Berlin State Opera.
• 2006 – Pyotr Illych Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin at the Bolshoi Theatre.
• 2007 – Modest Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina conducted by Kent Nagano at the Bavarian State Opera Munich.
• 2008 – Sergei Prokofiev's The Gambler conducted by Daniel Barenboim at the Berlin State Opera and La Scala Milano.
• 2008 – Dmitri Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District conducted by John Fiore at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein.
• 2009 – Giuseppe Verdi's Macbeth conducted by Teodor Currentzis at the Opéra Bastille Paris and the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre.
• 2009 – Alban Berg's Wozzeck conducted by Teodor Currentzis at the Bolshoi Theatre.
• 2010 – Francis Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmelites conducted by Kent Nagano at the Bavarian State Opera Munich.
• 2010 – Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde conducted by Valeri Gergiev at the Mariinsky Theatre.
• 2010 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Don Giovanni conducted by Louis Langrée at the Aix-en-Provence Festival and by Teodor Currentzis at the Bolshoi Theatre.
• 2011 – Mikhail Glinka's Ruslan and Ludmila conducted by Vladimir Jurowski at the Bolshoi Theatre.
• 2011 – Giuseppe Verdi's Simon Boccanegra conducted by Garder at English National Opera and 2013 by Bertrand de Billy at the Bavarian State Opera Munich
• 2012 – Giuseppe Verdi's Il trovatore conducted by Marc Minkowski at Theatre de la Monnaie Bruxelles.
• 2012 – Leoš Janácek's Jenufa conducted by Fabio Luisi at Opernhaus Zürich.
• 2012 – Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov's The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya conducted by Marc Albrecht at De Nederlandse Opera.
• 2013 – Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata conducted by Daniele Gatti at the La Scala Milan^[5][6]
• 2013 – Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride conducted by Daniel Barenboim at the Berlin State Opera.
• 2014 – Alexander Borodin's Prince Igor conducted by Gianandrea Noseda at the Metropolitan Opera, and in 2017 by Stanislav Kochanovsky at De Nederlandse Opera.
• 2015 – Richard Wagner's Parsifal conducted by Daniel Barenboim at the Berlin State Opera.
• 2015 – Alban Berg's Lulu conducted by Kirill Petrenko at the Bavarian State Opera Munich.
• 2015 – Dmitri Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District conducted by Mark Wigglesworth at the English National Opera.
• 2016 Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta/The Nutcracker conducted by Alain Antinoglu at the Paris Opéra Garnier
• 2016 Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande conducted by Alain Altinoglu at Opernhaus Zürich
• 2016 Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle and Eötvös’ Senza Sangue conducted by Gregory Vajda at Hamburg State Opera
• 2017 – Bizet's Carmen conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado at the Grand Théâtre de Provence, Aix-en-Provence Festival.
• 2017 Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Snow Maiden conducted by Mikhail Tatarnikov at the Paris Opéra Bastille
• 2018 Richard Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde conducted by Daniel Barenboim at Berlin State Opera
• 2019 Hector Berlioz’ Les Troyens conducted by Philippe Jordan at the Paris Opéra Bastille
• 2019 Sergei Prokofiev’s Betrothal in a Monastery conducted by Daniel Barenboim at Berlin State Opera
• 2019 Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tale of Tsar Saltan conducted by Alain Altinoglu at the Theatre de la Monnaie Bruxelles
• 2019 Leoš Janáček’s The Makropulos Case conducted by Jacub Hruša at Opernhaus Zürich
• 2021 Richard Wagner‘s Fliegender Holländer conducted by Oksana Lyniv at Bayreuther Festspiele, Asmik Grigorian as Senta and John Lundgren (as Cptn. Hollaender)^[7]

Drama

• 1998 – Goat-Island based on Ugo Betti's Crime on Goat-Island in Novosibirsk Theatre of Drama.
• 2001 – West Side Story in Samara Theatre of Drama.
• 2002 – Pierre de Marivaux's Double Inconstancy in Novosibirsk Globus Theatre.