Ukrainian baritone Yuriy Hadzetskyy was a member of the renowned International Opera Studio of Opernhaus Zürich during the 2019/20 and 2020/21 seasons during which time he appeared as Graf Dominik in Arabella in a new production by Robert Carsen under Fabio Luisi, Geisterkind in Coraline (Turnage), Ratgeber/Wildschwein/Riese in Das tapfere Schneiderlein (Mitterer) and Procolo in Viva la Mamma (Donizetti) among others. Last season, Hadzetskyy returned to Opernhaus Zürich as Mercutio in Ted Huffman’s new production of Roméo et Juliette under Roberto Forés Veses.
Yuriy Hadzetskyy studied at the Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy and the Opera Academy Young Talent Development Programme of the Teatr Wielki, Polish National Opera in Warsaw. He has also taken part in a number of prestigious training programmes including the 2019 Voice Residency of the Académie du Festival d’Aix en-Provence, the 2021 Accademia Rossiniana “Alberto Zedda” at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro and he was awarded a scholarship to participate in the Lied Academy of the International Song Centre Heidelberg under the artistic direction of Thomas Hampson. In 2023, he was a participant in Carnegie Hall’s elite SongStudio Program under the leadership of world-renowned soprano Renée Fleming.
