Kushnirenko, Mykola
No. 38
Voice type: Baritone
Country: Ukraine
Date of birth: 26 November, 1992
He was born in 1992 in Kyiv, Ukraine. He received his master’s degree of choir conducting in 2016, and his bachelor’s degree in solo singing in 2019 at the Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music. Between 2015 and 2019, he was soloist in National Choir of Ukraine. His stage appearances include the role of Consiglio and Il Tempo in Cavalieri’s La Rappresentazione di Anima е di Corpo in 2015, Peter in Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel in 2016, Macrobio in Rossini’s La Pietra del Paragone and a performance at an international festival Opera Fest Tulchyn ’17 in 2017, as well as the Baritone in Stankovych’s Opera Rustica in 2019. He took part in master classes by Claudio Cavina (in 2015), by Pavlo Hunka (in 2016) and was awarded the scholarship of the President of Ukraine in 2019.
Competition Repertoire
Preliminary
Liszt: Es muss ein Wunderbares sein
Händel: Tu sei il cor di questo core – Achilla’s aria from Giulio Cesare
Donizetti: Come Paride vezzoso – Belcore’s aria from L’elisir d’amore
Semi-final
Strauss: Lieben, Hassen, Hoffen, Zagen – Harlequin’s aria from Ariadne auf Naxos
Mozart: Hai già vinta la causa!... Vedrò mentre io sospiro – Count Almaviva’s recitative and aria from Le nozze di Figaro
Final
Donizetti: Bella siccome un angelo – Malatesta’s aria from Don Pasquale
Tchaikovsky: Kogda by zhizn domashnim krugom – Onegin’s aria from Eugene Onegin
Mozart: Rivolgete a lui lo sguardo – Guglielmo’s aria from the Così fan tutte