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
and Cologne; The Swan Lake, Anna Bolena and Il
Mago di Oz in Florence; Norma in Palermo; Evgenij
Onegin, La Traviata and Macbeth in Gdansk; 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. In Berlin he recently conducted L’Elisir d’Amore (Staatsoper)
and Anna Bolena (Deutsche Oper), opera he also conducted at the
Opernhaus in Zurich.
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 and Madama Butterfly and
in the next months he will conduct Guillaume Tell (new production),
polish classic opera Straszny dwór (The Haunted Manor, new
production by David Pountney), Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet, revivals
of Manon Lescaut, Nabucco andMaria Stuarda as well
as symphonic concerts. Other upcoming projects include: Roberto
Devereux in Madrid; Don Carlo in Düsseldorf; Norma in
Tokyo.
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