Andrii Ganchuk Baritone

Swiss resident Ukrainian baritone Andrii Ganchuk studied music in Kiev and singing at the Royal College of Music in Cardiff, where he made his debut roles: Ford ("Falstaff"), Maurrant ("Street Dance") and Smirnov ("The Bear"). He was a member of the Berlin Opera Academy and the Opera di Roma studio. There he was in the 2018/19 season in roles such as Rigoletto, Escamillo ("Carmen"), Baron ("La Traviata"), Sprecher ("Die Zauberflöte"), Rochefort ("Anna Bolena") Pritschitsch ("The Merry Widow"), Faust ("The fiery Angel"), Amonasro ("Aida"), Masetto ("Don Giovanni"), Zaretsky and Onegin cover ("Onegin"). In the 2020/21 season in games as Dottore (“La traviata”) and Mandarino in Ai WeiWei’s production of “Turandot”. 

Further engaged as a freelance artist in five new productions by Ai WeiWei, Damiano Michieletto, Robert Carsen, Denis Krief and Emilio Sagi in roles including Escamillo, Masetto, Onegin (cover), Zaretsky and Mandarino, Thierry, Javelot and cover of Marquis de la Force in Dialogues des Carmelites.

 

Ganchuk works closely with conductors such as Daniele Gatti, James Conlon, Riccardo Frizza, Carlo Rizzi and Alejo Perez as well as with well-known directors such as Damiano Michieletto, Robert Carsen, Barry Kosky, Sofia Coppola, Deborah Warner and Emma Dante.

RECORDINGS 
• TV, La Traviata, Gatti, Lisette Oropesa, Opera di Roma, April 2021, RAI TV 
• CD Diana Damrau, Antonio Pappano, [Talbot and Nottingham]
   (Warner Classics 2020) 
• DVD The Fiery Angel, Opera di Roma (NAXOS, 2019)  

UPCOMING AND PAST ROLES

Role Title Music Dir. Stg. Dir.
Mandarino Turandot TBA Ai Wei Wei
Dottore La Traviata D. Gatti M. Martone
Onegin  Onegin (cover) J. Conlon  Robert Carsen 
Zaretsky Eugene Onegin J. Conlon Robert Carsen
Vaudemont  Les vepres Siciliennes D. Gatti  V. Carrasco
Masetto Don Giovanni  J. Rhorer Graham Vick 
Amonasro Aida J. Bernacer Denis Krief
Faust The Fiery Angel A. Perez Enma Dante
Pritschitsch Die lustige Witwe C. Trinks D. Michieletto
Rochefort Anna Bolena R. Frizza Andrea de Rosa
B. Douphol La Traviata P. Rizzo Sofia Coppola
Sprecher Die Zauberfloete H. Nanasi Barrie Kosky
Rigoletto Rigoletto (reduction) C. Donadio F. Cherstich
2. Mate Billy Budd J. Conlon Deb. Warner
B. Douphol La Traviata P. Rizzo Sofia Coppola
Maurrant Street Scene W. Davies M. Constantine
Smirnov The bear  C. Sayers D. Maxwell
Escamillo Carmen P. Leonard Gidon Saks
Ford Falstaff C. Rizzi M. Constantin

Andrii holds an MBA from  University of Strathclyde,and a PhD in Economics. 

 

SUITED REPERTOIRE / FUTURE ROLES 

Composer Role Opera
Puccini Scarpia Tosca
Puccini Lescaut Manon Lescaut
Donizetti Dulcamara L'elisir d'amore
Donizetti Talbot Maria Stuarda
Mozart Leporello/Masetto Don Giovanni
Giordano Gerard Andrea Chenier
Puccini Michele Tabarro
Puccini Colline / Shaunard  La Bohème
Puccini Sharpless Madame Butterfly
Puccini Mandarin Turandot
Leoncavallo Tonio I Pagliacci
Mascagni Alfio Cavalleria Rusticana
Verdi Falstaff Falstaff
Verdi Rigoletto Rigoletto
Verdi Amonasro Aida
Verdi Jack Rance La fanciulla del west
Strauss Jochanaan Salome
Wagner Kurwenal Tristan und Isolde
Wagner Wotan Rheingold
Wagner Der Wanderer Siegfried
Borodin Prince Igor Prince Igor
Prokofiev Faust The Fiery Angel
Rachmaninov Aleko Aleko
Rimsky-Korsakov Gryaznoy The Tsar’s Bride
Rimsky-Korsakov Mizgir The Snow Maiden
Tchaikovsky Ibn-Hakia Iolanta
Tchaikovsky Count Tomsky The Queen of Spades
Bizet Escamilio Carmen
Poulenc Marquise de la Force Dialogues des Carmelites
Gounod Mephistopheles Faust

 

 

Andrii Ganchuk, Diana Damrau, Antonio Pappano, recording CD "Tudor Queens"

Andrii Ganchuk, Faust in The Fiery Angel (Prokofiev), Opera di Roma 2019

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