Andriy Yurkevych - conductor
Music Director at the Polish National Opera
After his debut at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, he earned an impressive
reputation at international level with many invitations at the Monte Carlo
Opera, the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, the Bayerische Staatsoper, the Liceu in
Barcelona, the Teatro Municipal in Santiago (Chile), the Greek National Opera
and the San Francisco Opera. Mr. Yurkevych enjoys a continuous and successful
collaboration with the world famous soprano Edita Gruberova, working with her in
numerous productions. Among his most notable past engagements: Norma in
Paris (Salle Pleyel), Nice, Palermo and Cologne; The Swan Lake and Anna
Bolena in Florence; Pique Dame, Der Fliegende Holländer, Rigoletto,
Madama Butterfly and Nabucco in Warsaw; Roberto Devereux in
Zürich, Vienna and Madrid; Aida in Riga; The Swan Lake in Rome; Lucia
di Lammermoor in Budapest; Evgenij Onegin in Munich. In Berlin he
conducted L’Elisir d’Amore (Staatsoper) and Anna Bolena (Deutsche
Oper), a title he also conducted at the Opernhaus in Zurich and at the Wiener
Staatsoper with Anna Netrebko in the title role.
Active also in the symphonic field, he conducted concerts with the Orchestra I
Pomeriggi Musicali in Milan and the Münchner Symphoniker, being immediately
reinvited. Mr. Yurkevych also served as Music Director of the National Theatre
in Odessa and as General Music Conductor at the National Opera and Ballet
Theatre of Republic of Moldova in Chisinau. As Music Director at the Teatr
Wielki in Warsaw, he recently conducted Evgenij Onegin, Nabucco, Maria
Stuarda, Guillaume Tell, Madama Butterfly, a new production of
Moniuszko’s The Haunted Manor while next months he will conduct
Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet, Maria Stuarda, Guillaume Tell, Die Zauberflöte,
Il Turco in Italia as well as revivals of Evgenij Onegin, Nabucco and The
Haunted Manor.
Other plans include:
Macbeth at the Welsh National Opera in Cardiff; Le Duc d’Albe in
Antwerp; revivals of Don Carlo in Dusseldorf; and concert series in
Munich and Zurich.
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