Vladyslav Buialskyi

Vladyslav Buialskyi (; born 15 August 1997) is a Ukrainian bass-baritone. Since 2020, he has performed with the Metropolitan Opera as a member of its Lindemann Young Artist Development Program.

Biography Buialskyi was born on 15 August 1997 in Berdiansk, Ukraine. The son of an accountant and a driver, he became interested in singing at an early age and admired the Soviet singer Muslim Magomayev. When he was 17 years old, he began training at a conservatory. He is an alumnus of the R. Glier Kyiv Institute of Music and the Kyiv Conservatory, where he trained with the baritone Mykola Koval.

His participation in "Kharkiv Assemblies", the International Competition of Musical Art, in Kharkiv in 2018, led to a performance as Leporello in Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Kharkiv National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre. He was named a semi-finalist and finalist at the International Stanisław Moniuszko Vocal Competition in Warsaw and the Tenor Viñas Contest in Barcelona, respectively, and received the "Accademia Chigiana" prize at the latter. He was also a semi-finalist at the 2021 Operalia competition and a finalist at the 2021 Éva Marton International Singing Competition. Before the start of the opera, Buialskyi and the other singers performed the State Anthem of Ukraine in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. On 14 March 2022, Buialskyi sang the anthem as a soloist with the Met Orchestra and chorus to open the 90-minute benefit concert "A Concert for Ukraine". The New York Times described him as "a symbol of his country’s struggles". Rick Perdian of the New York Classical Review also praised his performance, writing that he "sang with verve and danced with style".