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,  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 and Madama Butterfly, and he will conduct Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet, revivals of Nabucco, Maria Stuarda as well as symphonic concerts. Other plans include: Don Carlo in Düsseldorf and  Le Duc d’Albe in Antwerp and a series of concerts in Munich and Zurich.

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