Andrii Kymach, baritone, is the First Prize winner of the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2019. He graduated from the Bolshoi Theatre Young Artist Program in Moscow in 2018, where he made his debuts as Don Carlos in The Stone Guest (Dargomyzhsky) and the Venetian Guest in Sadko (Rimsky-Korsakov).
In the current and upcoming seasons, he appears as Shchelkalov in Boris Godunov (Mussorgsky) at the Royal Opera House (Covent Garden), Ford in Falstaff (Verdi) at the Hamburg Staatsoper, the title role in Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky) at the Norwegian National Opera, the title role in Nabucco (Verdi) at the Israeli Opera, Germont in La traviata (Verdi) with Opera Australia and Houston Grand Opera, and The Bells (Rachmaninoff) with the Warsaw Philharmonic conducted by Vasily Petrenko.
Other roles he has performed include Ford in Falstaff (Verdi) and Sir Riccardo Forth in I puritani (Bellini) at the Opéra National de Paris and the Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona; Escamillo in Carmen (Bizet) with the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Polish National Opera, and Opera Australia; the title role in Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky) and Alfio in Cavalleria rusticana (Mascagni) with the Canadian Opera Company; Count Tomsky in The Queen of Spades (Tchaikovsky) at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía and the Grange Festival; the High Priest of Dagon in Samson et Dalila (Saint-Saëns) at Ópera de Tenerife; Robert in Iolanta (Tchaikovsky) in concert with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Giorgio Germont in La traviata (Verdi) and the title role in Don Giovanni (Mozart) with Opera Australia; Lord Enrico Ashton in Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti) at Ópera de Tenerife, the title role in Don Giovanni (Mozart) at Opéra de Nice, and a concert performance of the title role in The Demon (Rubinstein) at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London.
His concert repertoire includes The Bells (Rachmaninoff) with the Bergen Philharmonic and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, a recital for Oxford Lieder, and Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven) with the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra conducted by Keri-Lynn Wilson in London, Washington, Paris, Warsaw, and Gdansk.
