Vladyslav Buialskyi was born in 1997 in Berdyansk, Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine. After the Reinhold Gliere Music College he is continuing the education at the National Music Academy of Ukraine with Professor Mykola Koval.
In 2026, Vladislav won First Prize at the renowned Operalia competition, founded by the legendary Plácido Domingo. He also received the Rolex Prize of the Audience. This is his second major competition victory this year—in January, he won First Prize at the prestigious Tenor Viñas Competition in Barcelona.
He most recently participated in the 2019–20 Neue Stimmen Competition in Gütersloh, Germany, where he became the first recipient of the Brian Dickie Young Talent Award, and last summer, he performed the role of Dziemba in Moniuszko’s Halka in Krakow, Poland.
In 2019, he was a finalist at the Tenor Viñas Contest and received the Extraordinary Prize Accademia Chigiana of Siena scholarship. He also competed at the 2019 International Stanislaw Moniuszko vocal competition, where he was a semifinalist and won an elite invitation to give a recital at the Festival of Polish Music in Krakow.
Since 2020, he was a participant in the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Singer led the Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra in the Ukrainian National Anthem as part of ‘A Concert for Ukraine’, which has since been nominated for a Grammy.
The singer is currently a member of the Semperoper Dresden (Germany).
He will return to the Metropolitan Opera in 2026/27 as guest artist to perform the role of Speaker in The Magic Flute.
Elsewhere this season, Buialskyi makes his debut at Opernhaus Zürich as Angelotti in Tosca and at Florida Grand Opera as Leporello in Don Giovanni. He also sings Leporello among his many roles at Semperoper Dresden and appears in concert with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra to perform Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 conducted by Dinis Sousa.
Buialskyi made his debut at Semperoper Dresden as Bernardino in Benvenuto Cellini, with subsequent roles as part of the ensemble including Colline in La bohème, Masetto in Don Giovanni and Angelotti. As a member of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, he appeared at the Metropolitan Opera in Idomeneo conducted by Manfred Honeck and Don Carlos conducted by Carlo Rizzi. Elsewhere, he sang Leporello in a new production of Don Giovanni at Opéra de Lille under Emmanuelle Haïm and Walter in Luisa Miller for Sarasota Opera and made his debut at the 2024 Salzburg Festival in a new Peter Sellars production of The Gambler.
In concert, Buialskyi has performed Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 at Carnegie Hall with the Orchestra for Ukraine under Christoph Eschenbach, in Berlin and Warsaw with the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra under Keri-Lynn Wilson, and with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra conducted by Manfred Honeck. He also sang Brander in La damnation de Faust with the RTVE Symphony Orchestra in Madrid.
The singer is represented by the international agency Intermusica.
Since 2019, Vladyslav has been receiving grant support from the VERE MUSIC FUND.
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