Vladimir Kapshuk Baritone

Biography

A graduate of the Kiev National Academy of Music and a Franco-Ukrainian baritone, Volodymyr Kapshuk continued his training at the Atelier Lyrique de l'Opéra National de Paris and then at the Salzburg Festival's Young Singers Project.

He has won several international prizes, including L'Art du XXIe siècle, the Prix Lyrique du Cercle Carpeaux and the Prix Lyrique de l'Association pour le Rayonnement de l'Opéra national de Paris. He performs in recital and opera in France and abroad (Italy, Spain, Austria, Germany, USA, China...).

Roles in his repertoire include Eugène Onéguine, Prince Eletsky (La Dame de Pique), Malatesta (Don Pasquale), Testo (Le Combat de Tancrède et Clorinde), Orestes (Iphigénie en Tauride), Tarquinius (Le Viol de Lucrèce), Guglielmo (Cosi fan tutte) and the title role in Don Giovanni.

More recently, he sang Don Carlos (Les Fiançailles au Couvent), conducted by Tugan Sokhiev at the Capitole de Toulouse, and made his debut at the Berlin Philharmonic with the title role in Sergei Rachmaninov's Aleko and Robert in Tchaikovsky's "Iolanta". At the Opéra national de Paris, Volodymyr Kapshuk sings in numerous productions and works closely with the Académie de l'Opéra de Paris, notably in the cycle of "Récitals récités" given at the Bastille Amphitheatre in 2022.