Valentin Uryupin
Conductor
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Valentin Uryupin is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he enjoyed great success last season with the Stravinsky / Tchaikovsky Oedipus Rex / Iolanta double bill, for this new production of Tchaikovksy’s rarely performed The Sorceress. In the autumn of 2021 he was named chief conductor and artistic director of New Opera Moscow, where he conducted works including Korngold’s Die tote Stadt / The Dead City and Massenet’s Cendrillon before resigning from both posts. He conducted new productions of The Love for Three Oranges at the Staatsoper in Stuttgart and Eugene Onegin (2019) and Giordano’s Siberia (2022) at the Bregenz Festival and has appeared several times at the Tirol Festival in Erl. The Rostov Symphony Orchestra became one of Russia’s most eminent orchestras under his artistic leadership from 2015 - 2021. He regularly conducted concerts with the Moscow Philharmonic and went on tour with them to places including the Bruckner-haus in Linz. He also worked regularly with leading orchestras in Russia including the State Academy Symphony Orchestra Evgeny Svetlanov, the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra and Russian National Youth Symphony Orchestra, with whom he recently appeared at the 2021 Lucerne Festival. He also worked closely with Perm Opera’s orchester MusicAeterna for several years. This winner of the 8th Georg Solti International Conducting Competition in 2017 won prizes as a clarinettist at more than 20 international competitions around the world. He studied at the State Conservatoire in Moscow and was taught by people including Gennady Rozhdestvensky and the clarinettist Evgeny Petrovi.