Viacheslav Ivanovich Charnukha-Volich (born in 1963 in the village of Svyataya Volya, Ivatsevichy District, Brest Region) is a Belarusian conductor.
He graduated from the Belarusian Academy of Music with a degree in bassoon (1989) and in opera and symphony conducting (1994), as well as from the Academy. In 1993 he became the conductor of the Belarusian State Theatre of Musical Comedy. In 1995-2019 he was conductor of the National Opera and Ballet Theatre of Belarus. From 2019 to 2023, he was the Chief Conductor of the Odesa National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre. On 24 August 2020, Vyacheslav Chernukha-Volich was appointed Chief Conductor of the National Opera and Ballet Theatre of Belarus, but on 26 August he resigned from his post. He returned to Odesa.
Chief conductor of the Odesa Opera
He worked as the chief conductor of the Odesa National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre from 2019 to 2023.
He was dismissed from his post on 12 April 2023 due to the public outcry caused by a series of published photographs taken the day before, on 8 April, in Baku, where Viacheslav Chernukha-Volych was invited to conduct Giacomo Puccini's La bohème at the National Opera of Azerbaijan. The day before the concert, the Opera changed its director - the husband of singer Anna Netrebko, who is under sanctions in Ukraine, Yusif Eyvazov, took over the theatre.
Creative work
He is the author of numerous creative programmes and projects of the National Opera and Ballet Theatre of Belarus, including Opera Night at Mir Castle, Young Talents of Belarus, Bolshoi Theatre Evenings at Radziwill Castle.
Conductor-director of the Odesa National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre productions La Traviata (directed by Yevhen Lavrenchuk), Catherine (directed by Oksana Taranenko), The Pearl Diggers (directed by Pavlo Koshka), Carmina Burana (directed by Gerard Mosterd).
Awards.
Francis Skoryna Medal
