Valentin
Uryupin
Conductor

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“Valentin Uryupin’s highly energetic, super-precise and sensitive conducting is impressive in every respect.”— Der Standard
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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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Bregenzer Festspiele - Siberia
DerStandard
Valentin Uryupin’s highly energetic, super-precise and sensitive conducting is impressive in every respect. With the help of the enthusiastic Vienna Symphony, he brings to life the magnificent, seductive Verismo soundscapes of Giordano
Bregenzer Festspiele - Siberia
Südkurier
Really great things come out of the orchestra pit: Valentin Uryupin plunges into the score with enthusiasm and lets the Vienna Symphony Orchestra rise above itself
Bregenzer Festspiele - Siberia
Great and at the same time wildly and sensitively acting conductor Valentin Uryupin is at the podium of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra - Salzburger Nachrichten
Bregenzer Festspiele - Siberia
It is also praiseworthy that conductor Valentin Uryupin together with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra creates intensive, seamless soundscapes - Wiener Zeitung
Bregenzer Festspiele - Siberia
With taste and overview Valentin Uryupin leads the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the busy, excellent Prague Philharmonic Choir through the music - Stuttgarter Zeitung
Oper Frankfurt -The Enchantress
hr2Kultur
Conductor Valentin Uryupin fantastically brings out magic, tenderness, horror, and brutality in Tchaikovsky's music. What more could one ask for?
Oper Frankfurt -The Enchantress
Süddeutsche Zeitung
Tchaikovsky has never been more modern, and conductor Valentin Uryupin lives this out consistently and rather stunningly
Dutch National Opera - The Maid of Orleans
Frankfurter Allgemeine
When he returns after the intermission for the third act, there is cheering and the first shouts of 'Bravo!'. At the end, the audience gives Uryupin and the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra the loudest applause. Everyone senses that something extraordinary has happened under Uryupin's direction in the pit
Dutch National Opera - The Maid of Orleans
Platea Magazine
Russian music director Valentin Uryupin and the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra performed Tchaikovsky's sumptuous score, brimming with melody and nationalistic fervor: a balm amidst the turmoil. Life may never be the same after onenight at this opera
Dutch National Opera - The Maid of Orleans
Trouw
Musically, everything was at the highest level. Conductor Valentin Uryupin kept the massive ensemble scenes tightly under control and drove the magnificent chorus to great heights. In Tchaikovsky’s complex score, he kept the alert Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra on point, allowing it to bloom beautifully in the quieter passages
Dutch National Opera - The Maid of Orleans
Theater Paradijs
Conductor and musical director Valentin Uryupin leads the full Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra with exactly the right musical phrasing—sometimes at a calm pace, sometimes extremely driven.... It is impressive how Valentin Uryupin guided the orchestra and choir together, giving this opera a truly high-level performance
Dutch National Opera - The Maid of Orleans
Financial Times
Conductor Valentin Uryupin [draws] polished intensity from the Netherlands Philharmonic. This is a team that believes in every note of the problematic score, and their passion is infectious

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