Oleksandr Kyreiev
Oleksandr Kyreiev is a Ukrainian baritone, born in Shostka in 1988. He graduated with a master’s degree from the Ukraine National University, majoring in singing, and has been a soloist with the National Opera of Ukraine. His roles there have been Figaro in Rossini’s Barber of Seville, Baron Douphol in Verdi’s La Traviata, Robert in Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta and the title role in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin. In the years 2014–17 he was in the young singers’ group at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
Repertoire
| Preliminary round | |
| J.S.Bach | Matthäus-Passion: Mache dich mein Herze rein |
| L.v.Beethoven | Neue Liebe, neues Leben (Goethe) |
| P. Tšaikovski | Serenada Don Žuana (A. Tolstoi) |
| W.A. Mozart | Cosí fan tutte: “Rivolgete a lui lo sguardo” (Guglielmo) |
| Semifinals | |
| Y. Kilpinen | Illalla (Leino) |
| G. Sviridov | Ottšalivšaja Rus (Jesenin) |
| 1. Osen | |
| 3. Otvori mne, straž zaoblatšnyi | |
| 5. Ottšalivšaja Rus | |
| 7. Gde ty, gde ty ottši dom | |
| 12. O Rodina, stšastlivyi i neishodnyi chas! | |
| P. Tšaikovski | Jevgeni Onegin: ”Vy mne pisali” (Onegin) |
| Final | |
| G. Verdi | Falstaff: “È sogno? O realtà?” (Ford) |
| A. Thomas | Hamlet: ”O vin, dissipe la tristesse” (Hamlet) |
Preliminary round