The Ukrainian baritone Yevheniy Kapitula studied singing, conducting, composition and counterpoint at the Lviv National Music Academy and elsewhere. He received a series of prizes, awards and scholarships, including the Gaude Polonia Scholarship from the Polish Ministry of Culture, and a scholarship to allow him to participate in the International Opera Workshop in Sigriswill (Switzerland). His engagements have taken him to countries including Poland, France, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Along with his opera work, Yevheniy Kapitula is active as a concert singer.
In the 2014/15 season he held a scholarship with the Vienna State Opera, where he sang roles including Fiorello (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Marullo (Rigoletto) and Hans in Lortzing’s Undine. In the 2016/17 season he appeared at the Neue Oper Wien as Meton in Krenek’s Pallas Athene weint. Since 2016 he has appeared at the Salzburg Landestheater in a variety of roles, including Hermann (Les Contes d’Hoffmann), Monsieur de Brétigny (Manon), Monsù Traversen in Rossini’s La gazzetta, the Theatre Director in Donizetti’s Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali (under the title Viva la Diva), the Head Waiter in the world premiere of Alma Deutscher’s Des Kaisers neue Walzer and Robert in Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta. In the 2023/24 season he has sung Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia) at the Salzburg Landestheater and at Theater Hagen.
His recent engagements as a concert singer have included his debut in the title role of Mendelssohn’s Elijah in Mainz and Darmstadt with the Ensemble Chordial Mainz and the Heidelberger Kantatenorchester in 2022.
