Iurii Iushkevich
countertenor
© Daniil Rabovsky
The Russian countertenor Iurii Iushkevich is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he made his debut singing Nireno in a new Giulio Cesare in Egitto, which was followed by 1st Servant and 1st Angel / the Boy in new productions of Aribert Reimann’s L’invisible and George Benjamin's Written on Skin, to sing Adelberto, and then Giudo in new productions of Handel's Ottone (main house) and Flavio (Bockenheimer Depot). He recently sang his first Feodors in Boris Godunov at the Opéra National de Lyon, returning to the opera house between the Rhône and Saône to sing Nerone in L’incoronazione di Poppea in the summer of 2026. Other recent engagements have included Arbate in Mozart's Mitridate, re di Ponto at the 2025 Salzburg Festival, singing alto in Romeo Castellucci's production of the Matthew Passion in Florence and the shepherd Lel in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Snowflake at the Tirol Winter Festival in Erl. Other engagements have taken him to places including the Vienna State Opera, Oper Leipzig and National Opera in Minsk, the Schwetzingen and Bregenz festivals, the Carnegie Hall in New York and the Philharmonies in Berlin and St. Petersburg. He was a prizewinner 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 at the universities of arts in Berlin and Graz.