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                                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. |