Described as "the finest voice on stage ...with the immaculate Italianate line" (The Times) and "a rich, deep voice capable of great versatility" (Bachtrack), Ukrainian baritone Yuriy Yurchuk was a member of the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden from 2014-16, and a Royal Opera Principal from 2016-17.
For the Royal Opera, he has sung Angelotti Tosca, Baron Douphol La traviata, Marcello La bohème, Blazes The Lighthouse, Germano La Scala di Seta, Dumas Andrea Chénier, Prince Yamadori Madama Butterfly, Mandarin Turandot, Flemish Deputy Don Carlo, Johann Werther, Schlemil Les Contes d’Hoffmann, and various roles in The Nose.
The 2025/26 season sees Yuriy return to Opera North as Marcello and Opéra de Bauge as Michele Il Tabarro and title role Gianni Schicchi. On the concert scene he returns to the Royal Philharmonic for Ustvolskaya's The Dream of Stepan Razin and records Achasuerus with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra for Pentatone.
Last season made a role and house debut as Michele at Lithuanian National Opera, as well as a return to Northern Ireland Opera with Eugene Onegin. He recently debuted at New National Theatre Tokyo and The Royal Danish Opera both asEugene Onegin and sang his first Don Giovanni at Savonlinna Festival. In concert, he made debuts with the Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen, Kraków Philharmonic and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Other recent operatic engagements include Marcello at Northern Ireland Opera, Opernhaus Zürich, Opera North, and DePaul Opera Theatre; Lescaut Manon and Ping Turandot at Opernhaus Zürich; and Eugene Onegin at Ukraine National Opera.
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