Lidiya Yankovskaya is a conductor with powerful range – from Verdi and Wagner to Price and Prokofiev – and an unshakeable sense of classical music as a living, responsive art form. Her bold, collaborative leadership has shaped the development of dozens of world premieres – including over 20 new operas – and brought fresh urgency to performances with major orchestras and opera companies across the globe. This season,Yankovskaya makes her Scandinavian debut at Norwegian National Opera withTchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin. She conducts the same work at The Grange Festival in a return to the United Kingdom and brings her interpretation of Bartok masterwork Bluebeard’s Castle, praised by The Times as “lyrical, polished, and compelling,” to Omaha Symphony. Elsewhere, she conducts orchestras around the world, including her first performances at Vienna’s iconic Musikverein with Tonkünstler Orchester and return engagements with Phoenix Symphony and with London Philharmonic Orchestra, where she leads a world-premiere piano concerto.