Yuriy Mynenko

Source: PARNASSUS ARTS PRODUCTIONS

Yuriy Mynenko’s roles in the 2018/19 season include the new production of Death in Venice at the Theater Carre in Amsterdam, Polinesso in Ariodante at the Stuttgart Opera, Disinganno in Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno at the Teatro Manoel, the role of Ottone in Vinci’s Gismondo re di Polonia in Vienna, Gliwice, Moscow and on CD, and his Salzburg Festival debut as Aci in Porpora’s Polifemo.

Yuriy Mynenko was born in Radomyshl (Ukraine). He studied singing with Yuriy Teterya at the Antonina Nezhdanova State Academy of Music in Odessa, first as a baritone and then as a countertenor. While still a student, he successfully took part in numerous singing competitions, including being the first Ukrainian singer and the first countertenor to reach the final of the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World. Later, his artistic activities took him to many other European countries and the USA in addition to his home country. He has sung at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, the Nationaltheater Mannheim, the Cologne Opera, the Stuttgart Opera, the Staatstheater Kassel, the Theater an der Wien, the Opéra de Lausanne, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées Paris, the Opéra Royal de Versailles, the Opéra national de Lorraine Nancy, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Kennedy Center Washington, the Paris Opera Bastille and the Santa Fe Opera, among others.

He has worked with renowned conductors such as Kazem Abdullah, Teodor Currentzis, Alan Curtis, Marc-André Dalbavie, Paul Daniel, Dan Ettinger, Diego Fasolis, Grant Gershon, Reinhard Goebel, Simon Halsey, Roman Kofman, Andris Nelsons, Christopher Moulds, Vasily Petrenko, George Petrou, Michail Jurowski and Vladimir Jurowski. His operatic repertoire includes works from the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods, including Xbalanque in The Indian Queen by Henry Purcell, Corrado in Griselda by Antonio Vivaldi, David in Saul by George Frideric Handel, Artaserse and Megabise in Artaserse by Leonardo Vinci, Annio and Sesto in La clemenza di Tito by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ratmir in Ruslan and Ludmila by Mikhail Glinka.

In the 2016/2017 season, Yuriy Mynenko appeared in the title role of Handel’s opera Rinaldo (Theater Chemnitz), Pergolesi’s opera Adriano in Siria (Theater an der Wien) and as Lel in Snegurotschka (Opera de Paris), among others. In the 2017/18 season, Yuriy Mynenko sang at the Teatro Liceu in Barcelona, in the Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, at the Theater an der Wien and at the Opera de Lausanne, where he made his debut as Sesto. In January 2018, Yuriy Mynenko stepped in at short notice as Romeo in Zingarelli’s opera Giulietta e Romeo at the Theater an der Wien, delighting audiences and the press alike.

Future roles for Yuriy Mynenko include Nadezhda in a new production of Satko at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow and at the Opera de Lyon, the role of Polinesso in a concert tour under the direction of Marc Minkowski, the title role in Handel’s Publio Cornelio
Scipione at the Göttingen Festival, the voice of Apollo in Death in Venice at the Theatre Chatlet, the Zagreb Opera and the Barbican Center London, the role of Ottone in Vinci’s Gismondo re di Polonia in Warsaw and Dortmund, Lel in Snegurotchka at the Opera de Bastille in Paris, and the role of Nerone in Handel’s Agrippina at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden.

Yuriy Mynenko took part in the legendary and multi-award-winning CD and DVD production Artaserse, recorded with five countertenors and released by Virgin Classics.