“Valentin Uryupin’s highly energetic, super-precise and sensitive conducting is impressive in every respect.”— Der Standard
The 2026-27 season brings a series of house debuts: at the Wexford Festival conducting The Gambler, at Theater an der Wien with The Golden Cockerel and at Opéra National de Bordeaux with The Tsar´s Bride. He will also return to Teatro Regio di Torino for Eugene Onegin.
His symphonic engagements include a tour with NHK Symphony Orchestra, concerts with Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa and Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra.
Future engagements include reinvitations to Bayerische Staatsoper and Teatro Regio di Torino, amongst others.
In recent seasons, Uryupin has appeared at Staatsoper Berlin with Carmen, at Bayerische Staatsoper with Dido and Aeneas...Erwartung, at the Dutch National Opera with The Maid of Orleans, at Oper Frankfurt with The Enchantress and Oedipus Rex/Iolanta, at Teatro Regio Torino with The Queen of Spades, at the New National Theatre Tokyo with Eugene Onegin, and at Staatsoper Stuttgart with The Love for Three Oranges. He has also conducted Eugene Onegin and Siberia at the Bregenzer Festspiele.
His concert work has included appearances with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin (in his Sony Classical recording debut), Wiener Symphoniker, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and Tokyo Symphony Orchestra.
He has served as Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Novaya Opera Theatre of Moscow and as Principal Conductor of the Rostov Symphony Orchestra in Rostov-on-Don.
Uryupin is the winner of the 8th Sir Georg Solti International Conducting Competition in Frankfurt and the 5th Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition in Bamberg.

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