Iurii Iushkevich
countertenor
© Daniil Rabovsky
The young Russian countertenor Iurii Iushkevich is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he made his very successful debut last season singing Nireno in our new Giulio Cesare in Egitto, for this new production of Aribert Reimann’s L’invisible, and he’s back next season. He enjoyed a triumph singing the shepherd Lel in a new production of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Snowflake at the 2023 Tirol Winter Festival in Erl. Other engagements have taken him to places including 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, Bregenz Festival, the Carnegie Hall in New York and the Berlin, St. Petersburg and Moscow philharmonies. He sang Hippogryph and Astolfo in Marius Felix Lange’s opera for children: The Song of the Magic Island while participating in the 2019 Salzburg Festival’s Young Singers’ Project. Earlier on, on a scholarship from the Lyra Foundation in Zurich, he took part in concerts with the Bavarian Philharmonic in the Cuvilliés Theater in Munich, Theater im Kurhaus in Freudenstadt and the Cloister Concerts in St. Blasien. He has won prizes at international singing competitions including the Elena Obraztsova Competition for young opera singers, the Crescendo Music Competition, the Debut Singing Competition and the Triomphe de l’Art international music competition, He studied with Prof. Enrico Facini at the University of Arts in Berlin and Prof. Elena Pankratova at the University for Arts in Graz.