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  • “The Ukrainian Yuriy Yurchuk draws very well that incomprehensible and contradictory Onegin, in a certain way a precursor of Russian philosophical nihilism and whose life has neither direction nor moral sense. His voice is pleasant and well projected.”
    Xavier Rivera
  • “The famous Eugene Onegin is sung by baritone Yuriy Yurchuk, who held this role for his debut at the National Opera of Ukraine in 2018. Here he elegantly interprets the indecisive seducer. Although he is a smug and condescending character, his doubts and remorse quickly resurface through a versatile singing ability.”
    Adèle Frison
  • ”There was something poignantly contradictory in how the Ukrainian baritone, Yuriy Yurchuk, articulating Russian more clearly than any other soloist, heart-wrenchingly sang of rusty escort bells, their toll resonating for both the misguided and the righteous alike.”
    Jukka Isopuro
  • ”Anush Hovhannisyan molasses-rich soprano and Yuriy Yurchuk’s vehement baritone were ample compensation in this deeply satisfying performance.”
    Mark Pullinger
  • ”The spectre of man’s death hangs over the final movement, a Lento lugubre (‘The Mournful Iron Bells’), and it fell to the Ukrainian baritone Yuriy Yurchuk to take us to its closure. Although this work ends in a kind of solitude it has to go through catastrophe to get there. A wonderfully austere lamentation on the cor anglais preceded Yurhcuk’s devastating first entry – with Kochanovsky uniting the gloom-laden chorus, bereft baritone and harrowing-sounding orchestra towards the Dies Irae. Yurchuk sang with solemnity, and a rich emptiness; the chorus a depth of wordless power to evoke the bells. The resignation at the end had the hollowness of profundity to it.”
    Marc Bridle
  • “As the great Ukrainian baritone Yuri Yurchuk, who played Giorgio Germont, Alfredo's father, told me, this production majors in psychological truthfulness: "Cameron wanted us to know why we were doing or saying things". This was clear in De provenza, Georgio's diktat to his son about the unwisdom of his romantic course.
    Jane Hardy
  • “Alfredo’s father, Giorgio, sung by Yuriy Yurchuk, possesses the same unwavering assurance but wields it self-servingly against Violetta and Alfredo, whose match he condemns. It was certainly strange to realize that Yurchuk is in fact five years younger than Stewart, given that he plays his father. Nonetheless, he embodies Giorgio’s gas-lighting intentions well, his booming baritone selfishly advertising his narrow worldview. It was an impressive performance, even if it lacked the gravitas of an older singer.”
    Tacita Quinn
  • Yurchuk is compelling. His rich baritone carries the requisite gravitas when Giorgio Germont insists that Violetta part from his son to preserve his family’s honor and so as not to offend God. Later, wracked with regret for the tragic course of actions that he has unleashed, his poignant duet with Violetta is tenderly aching.
    Ian Patterson
  • The quality voice of the night is surely that of baritone Yuriy Yurchuk, in the role of Alfredo’s problematic father Giorgio Germont. Smoothly charismatic, his presence certainly poses intriguing possibilities about this role.
    MICHAEL LEE
  • ”The Ukrainian baritone Yuriy Yurchuk was affecting as Giorgio Germont, stiff, cold, broken, but his voice warm and reverberant. You may recognise the name. He made news earlier this year when he sang his homeland’s national anthem at the gates of Downing Street”
    Fiona Maddocks
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British-Ukrainian baritone Yuriy Yurchuk has been described as "the finest voice on stage” (The Times) and “rich, deep voice capable of great versatility” (Bachtrack). In the 2022/23 season he has sung Germont in La traviata for Northern Ireland Opera and the title role in Eugene Onegin for La Monnaie, Brussels, and sings Rachmaninov’s The Bells with the London Philharmonia Orchestra and then Finland Radio Symphony Orchestra. Other recent operatic engagements include Marcello in La bohème (Northern Ireland Opera, Opernhaus Zürich, Opera North, DePaul Opera Theatre), the title role in Eugene Onegin at Ukraine National Opera, Manon Lescaut and Turandot at Opernhaus Zürich; Ford in Falstaff in Chicago; Four Villains in The Tales of Hoffmann Yuriy Yurchuk was a member of the Jette Parker

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Don Carlo (Italian version)
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