The Royal Opera's Yuriy Yurchuk sings 'Deh, vieni alla finestra' from Mozart's Don Giovanni, as part of our Battle of the Arias series.
Don Giovanni is the second of Mozart’s landmark collaborations with librettist Lorenzo da Ponte (after The Marriage of Figaro and before Così fan tutte). In it they created a work that has beguiled and entranced in equal measure since its premiere in 1787. Perfectly situated, as no other opera, between tragedy and comedy, this potent drama combines glorious music with a seductive central character who is endlessly fascinating in his complexity.
Ukrainian baritone Yuriy Yurchuk was a member of the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme 2014-16.
Yurchuk was born in Kiev and gained his masters in vocal performance from DePaul University School of Music, Chicago. He has won prizes at the Queen Sonja International Music Competition (Norway), the Montserrat Caballé International Singing Competition (Spain), the Ottavio Ziino International Competition (Italy), the Jensen Foundation Vocal Competition (USA) and the Monastero Foundation Bel Canto Competition (USA). Before his singing career Yurchuk worked as a mergers and acquisitions financial consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers for eight years.
You can find him on KZfaq @YuriyYurchuk.
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