Yuriy Mynenko
countertenor
© Vladyslav Mynenko
Ukrainian countertenor Yuriy Mynenko is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he made his debut singing the title role (role debut) in Giulio Cesare in Egitto, which he then sang in Leipzig, to sing the title role in this new production of Handel's Ottone. He's a regular guest at leading opera houses in Europe and the USA, including the Opéra national de Paris, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris the Theater an der Wien, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Opéra Royal de Versailles, Opéra national de Lorraine Nancy, the Staatsoper in Stuttgart, Santa Fe Opera and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Roles central to his repertoire include Handel's Ottone, Giulio Cesare, Tolomeo, Polinesso, Ariodante, Rinaldo, Goffredo and David (Saul). An important milestone in his career was singing Megabise in Leonardo Vinci's Artaserse - a recording of which won an ECHO Classic Award. His repertoire includes Sesto and Annio (La clemenza di Tito) and Ratmir (Glinka's Ruslan and Ludmilla, which you can hear him singing at the Hamburg State Opera this winter). Future plans include Goffredo (Rinaldo) at the Theater an der Wien. He works with conductors including Teodor Currentzis, Alan Curtis, Marc-André Dalbavie, Paul Daniel, Dan Ettinger, Diego Fasolis, Andris Nelsons, Vasily Petrenko, George Petrou, Mikhail Jurowski and Vladimir Jurowski. He studied at the National Music Academy in Odessa and was the first Ukrainian, and first countertenor, to reach the finals of the »BBC Cardiff Singer of the World« competition.