YuriyYurchuk
Representation
About Yuriy
The 2024/25 season brings a role and house debut with Michele in Il Tabarro at Lithuanian National Opera, as well as a return to Northern Ireland Opera with Eugene Onegin.
Last season brought debuts at New National Theatre Tokyo and The Royal Danish Opera both with the title role in Eugene Onegin and saw his first Don Giovanni at Savonlinna Festival. As well as this, Yuriy debuted with the Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen, Kraków Philharmonic and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (Iolanta) in concert.
Other recent operatic engagements include Marcello in La bohème (Royal Opera House, Northern Ireland Opera, Opernhaus Zürich, Opera North, DePaul Opera Theatre), title role in Eugene Onegin at Ukraine National Opera, Manon Lescaut and Turandot at Opernhaus Zürich; Ford (Falstaff) in Chicago; Four Villains Les contes D’Hoffmann.
Representation
Season Highlights
Video
Yuriy Yurchuk sings Don Carlo
Yuriy Yurchuk singing “O Carlo Ascolta… lo morro, ma lieto in core” from Giuseppe Verdi’s Don Carlo at a Fundraising Gala for Ukraine in Aberystwyth, shown on Welsh TV channel S4C. Credit: S4C Fundraiser in Aberystwyth
PlayingYuriy Yurchuk sings Pearl Fishers
Yuriy Yurchuk and Gwyn Hughes Jones sing “Au fond du temple saint” from Les pêcheurs de perles – sang at fundraising gala for Ukraine for S4C in Aberystwyth. Credit: S4C Fundraiser in Aberystwyth
Playing
Selected Repertoire
Bizet | Carmen (Escamillo) • Les pêcheurs de perles (Zurga) |
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Cilea | Adriana Lecouvreur (Michonet) |
Foroni | Margherita (Count Rodolfo) |
Giordano | Andrea Chenier (Carlo Gerard) |
Mascagni | Cavalleria Rusticana (Alfio) |
Mozart | Don Giovanni (Title Role) |
Offenbach | Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Three Villains) |
Puccini | La boheme (Marcello) • Madama Butterfly (Sharpless, Prince Yamadori) • Manon Lescaut (Lescaut) • Tosca (Angelotti, Scarpia*) • Turandot (Ping, Mandarin) |
Rossini | La Scala di Seta (Germano) |
Tchaikovsky | Eugene Onegin (Title Role) • Iolanta (Robert, Bertrand) • Pique Dame (Prince Yeletsky) |
Verdi | Un Ballo in Maschera (Renato) • Don Carlos (Rodrigo Posa) • Il Trovatore (Conte di Luna) • La Traviata (Giorgio Germont, Douphol) |
News
Press
Eugene Onegin
Northern Ireland OperaSep 2024Ukraine-born baritone Yuriy Yurchuk, a former Jette Parker young artist at the Royal Opera, returned to the company (he was Giorgio Germont in La Traviata) to sing the title role: rich-toned and offering a stylish line in callous disdain.
- The Guardian
- 21 September 2024
Ukrainian baritone, Yuriy Yurchuk, captured the charm and haughty arrogance of Onegin to perfection in the early scenes. There was a striking contrast with the distraught, disheveled character who we saw languishing at Tatyana’s feet in the final scene. His voice was powerful and imposing at various points rising above big orchestral forces, but he was also sensual and lyrical and blended beautifully with the other performers in the ensemble scenes. His final duet with Mary McCabe’s Tatyana was thrilling both dramatically and musically and his final cries were devastating
- Seen and Heard
- 21 September 2024
Ukraine-born Yuriy Yurchuk has a lovely, lyrical baritone and captures Onegin's journey from haughty superiority to the brokenness of the final duet.
- The Times
- 16 September 2024
The Ukrainian baritone Yuriy Yurchuk is an ideal Eugene Onégin, assuming a supercilious and smarmy persona, before understanding the error of his ways, only to get his comeuppance. The voice is ideal, with warm even tone, great quality and an assured easy production
- The Irish Times
- 16 September 2024