Yuriy Mynenko
countertenor
© Vladyslav Mynenko
Ukrainian countertenor Yuriy Mynenko is making his debut at Oper Frankfurt singing the title role (for the first time) in Giulio Cesare in Egitto - you can hear him singing it again in Leipzig next June. Other engagements this season include Medoro in Orlando under Marc Minkowski at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris and Tolomeo (Giulio Cesare in Egitto), touring Europe with Il Pomo d’Oro under Francesco Corti. His repertoire includes the title roles in Orlando furioso, Eliogabalo, Ottone, Rinaldo, Adriano in Siria, Andronico (Tamerlano), Lel (Rimsky-Korsakov's Snow Flake), Sesto (La clemenza di Tito), Romeo (Giulietta e Romeo) and Megabise (Artaserse). He's also thrilled audiences at Zurich Opera, the Theater an der Wien, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, the Bolschoi in Moscow, Nationaltheater in Mannheim, Staatstheater in Kassel, the Opéra national de Paris, Opéra de Lausanne, Cologne Opera, the Opéra royal du château de Versailles, Opéra national de Lorraine Nancy, in Santa Fe, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, the Göttingen and Karlsruhe Handel festivals, Baroque-Pasticcio La Fest and the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival. Working with conductors including Teodor Currentzis, Alan Curtis, Marc-André Dalbavie, Paul Daniel, Dan Ettinger, Diego Fasolis, Christopher Moulds, Andris Nelsons, Vasily Petrenko, George Petrou, Mikhail Jurowski and Vladimir Jurowski. He studied at the National Music Academy in Odessa, won many prizes at singing competitions and was the first Ukrainian, and first countertenor, to reach the finals of the »BBC Cardiff Singer of the World« competition.