Iurii Iushkevich
countertenor
© Daniil Rabovsky
Iurii Iushkevich is appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time, singing Nireno (role debut) in this new production of Giulio Cesare in Egitto. Last winter he sang Lel in a new production of Rimsky-Korsakov's Snowflake at the Tirol Festival in Erl. Other recent engagements have included appearances at Oper Leipzig, the Vienna State Opera, the Bolschoi in Belarus, the Schwetzingen Festival, for the world premiere of Johannes Kalitzke's Captain Nemo's Library, the Bregenz Festival, Carnegie Hall in New York and the philharmonies in Berlin, St. Petersburg and Moscow. While a member of their Young Singers Project, he appeared at the 2019 Salzburg Festival as Hippogryph and Astolfo in Marius Felix Lange's children's opera The Magic Island's Song. While on a scholarship from the Zurich Lyra Foundation he appeared in concert with the Bayerische Philharmonie in the Cuvilliés Theater in Munich, Theater im Kurhaus Freudenstadt and Cloister concerts in St. Blasien. This Russian countertenor has won prizes at international singing competitions including the Elena Obraztsova Competition for young opera singers, the international Crescendo music competition, Debut singing competition and the Triomphe de l’Art international music competition. He graduated from the universities for the Arts in Berlin and Graz, where he studied with Prof. Enrico Facini and Prof. Elena Pankratova respectively. He'll be back at Oper Frankfurt soon.