Iurii Iushkevich
countertenor
© Daniil Rabovsky
The young Russian countertenor Iurii Iushkevich is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he made his very successful debut singing Nireno in our new Giulio Cesare in Egitto, which he returned to sing again earlier this season, which was followed by 1st Servant in Aribert Reimann’s L’invisible, to sing 1st Angel / Boy in this new production of George Benjamin's Written on Skin. He started the season off singing his first Feodors in Boris Godunov at the Opéra de Lyon, where he returns in June 2026 to sing Nerone in L'incoronazione die Poppea, directed by Tatjana Gürbaca. Other recent engagements have included Arbate in Mozart's Mitridate, re di Ponto at the 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 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.