Dmytro Hnatyuk was born on 28 March 1925 in the village of Mămăești, Sipeniț district,
Cernăuți County,
Romania. He graduated from a Romanian-language school and then from the
Kyiv Conservatory in 1951 as an opera and
chamber singer. He was a singer at the
Kiev Opera and Ballet Theatre appearing as a
soloist in many songs. In 1979, Hnatyuk graduated from the State Institute and of Theatrical Arts as a Director (
rezhyser). From 1951 to 1988, he worked as an opera singer and from 1975 also as a director of the State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet, as well working as a trainer of the National Academic Theatre. In 1988, he became the director of the State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet. Hnatyuk sang in many operas by Ukrainian and worldwide composers. Hnatyuk was a member of the
Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (8th–10th sessions) from 1972 to 1984. He also was a member of the
Ukrainian Parliament from 1998 to 2002. He had been
elected into parliament as member of
Hromada. Early 1999 he switched to the Hromada breakaway faction "
Fatherland". Early 2001 he again moved to another faction in parliament, this time to
Labour Ukraine. ==Family==