Denys Pivnitskyi

Biography

Born in Kharkiv in Ukraine, Denys Pivnitskyi made his Prague National Theatre Opera debut in June 2022 as Don Juan in Erwin Schulhoff´s Plameny at the State Opera. He graduated from the Gnessin State Musical College in Moscow in 2011 and from the Claudio Abbado Musical Academy in Milan in 2016. He has performed Alfredo in La traviata in Genova and Reggio Calabria, Turridu in Cavalleria rusticana at the Verdi Opera Theatre in Pisa, Osaka in Iris at Teatro del Giglio in Lucca, at the Goldoni Theatre in Livorno and Giuseppe Verdi Theatre in Pisa, Manrico in Il trovatore at the Verdi Opera Theatre in Busseto and at the Albanian Opera in Ballet Theatre in Tirana, Radames in Aida in Parma and at Tiroler Festspiele in Erl, Cavaradossi in Tosca in Pesaro, in Rovereto and at the Mikhailovski Theatre in St. Petersburg, Turiddu in Cavalleria rusticana and Canio in I pagliacci in Avignon, Opéra de Vichy and Opéra de Massy, and Roberto in Le villy in Cagliari, among others. Since 2011, he has lived in Milan.