Oksana Lyniv
Conductor
© Wilfried Hösl
Oksana Lyniv is appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time, conducting Bellini's I puritani. She became Chief Conductor of Oper Graz in 2017, where she has conducted new productions of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, Rossini's Il viaggio a Reims, a Mascagni Cavalleria rusticana / Leoncavallo I pagliacci double bill, and Strauss’ Salome, Weber's Oberon (in concert) and performances of Puccini's Tosca, Verdi's Il trovatore and Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor. The corona situation put paid to her conducting concerts, new productions of Verdi's Don Carlo, Weinberg's Die Passagierin / The (female) Passenger and Prokofiev's ballet Cinderella and concert performances of Schönberg's Friede auf Erden / Peace on Earth during the 2019/20 season, her last with the company. Oksana Lyniv worked at Lemberg Opera before winning 3rd prize at the 2004 Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition. After furthering her studies at the Carl Maria von Weber University for Music in Dresden she became deputy chief conductor of the Odessa National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater and started working as an assistant Kirill Petrenko, General Music Director of the Bayerische Staatsoper in 2013, where she conducted Mozart's La clemenza di Tito, Shostakovitch's Lady Macbeth von Mzensk snd Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos. She made her debuts in Graz in 2016, with Verdi's La traviata, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona in 2017, with Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer / The Flying Dutchman, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, with Tosca, Stuttgart Oper (Tchaikovsky's Pique Dame) and Theater an der Wien (Tchaikovsky's Die Jungfrau von Orleans / Maiden of Orleans) in 2019 and the Staatsoper Berlin in 2020, with Cherubini's Medea. She has appeared in concert with orchestras including the Munich Philharmonic, the Staatskapelle Berlin, Düsseldorf Symphony, the Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg, Hamburger Symphony, the Bruckner Orchester Linz and at the Festival LvivMozArt in Lemberg, which she brought into being. Plans for the 2020/21 season are her debuts with the Opéra National de Paris, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and her return to the Staatsoper in Stuttgart and Theater an der Wien.