Oksana Lyniv

Oksana Lyniv made history in 2021 as the first female conductor at the Bayreuth Festival. From 2022 to 2025 Oksana Lyniv was the Music Director of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, making her the first female chief conductor of an Italian opera house. In February 2024, Lyniv made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York as the first Ukrainian conductor ever. Her international career include engagements at the Bavarian State Opera, the Berlin State Opera, the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Opéra national de Paris, Oper Frankfurt, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Theater an der Wien, and the Stuttgart State Opera. As a guest conductor, she collaborates with numerous world-leading orchestras, including the Munich Philharmonic, Vienna Symphony, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, DSO Berlin, Staatskapelle Berlin, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Korean National Orchestra and Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Lyniv has become an important artistic voice for her country on the international music scene. In 2017, she founded the international LvivMozArt Festival in Lviv, inspired by the legacy of Franz Xaver Mozart in the city. In 2016, she initiated the founding of the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, which she has led as Artistic Director ever since.