and the Graz Philharmonic Orchestra. She concluded her tenure in Graz at the end of the 2019–2020 season. In March 2021, Lyniv made her first guest-conducting appearance at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, in a streamed quarantine concert without an audience. She subsequently guest-conducted at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna in a May 2021 concert with an audience present. On 25 July 2021, Lyniv conducted the first night of the new Bayreuth Festival production of Der fliegende Holländer, the first female conductor ever to conduct at the Bayreuth Festival. In October 2021, the Teatro Comunale di Bologna announced the appointment of Lyniv as its new music director, effective January 2022, with an initial contract of three years. Lyniv is the first female conductor to be named music director of an Italian opera house. In March 2022, Lyniv conducted Ai Weiwei's first opera production, Puccini's Turandot, at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma with an alternating cast of Oksana Dyka and Ewa Vesin as Turandot, and Michael Fabiano and Marco Spotti as Calaf. Awards The Saxon Mozart Prize 2021 was awarded to the (YsOU) and its conductor Lyniv. References Further reading External links Profile, Opera4u.com "Oksana Lyniv – conductor (Ukraine-Austria)", Philharmonia Lviv 1978 births Ukrainian conductors (music) Women conductors (music) 21st-century conductors (music) People from Brody Living people 21st-century women musicians 21st-century Ukrainian musicians