Ilya Kutyukhin
Contact
For availability and general enquiries:
Mark Hildrew
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Paul Meyer zu Schwabedissen
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Seb Mallet
Representation
About Ilya
Ilya is an alumnus of the prestigious Young Singers Project at The Salzburg Festival, where he appeared in both Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk conducted by Mariss Jansons, and in concert performances of Lucrezia Borgia conducted by Marco Armiliato.
Ilya was a member of the Young Artist Program of The Bolshoi Theatre where he studied with Dmitry Vdovin. During his time in the program, he performed in chamber music concerts with Ivari Ilja, Liubov Orfenova, Semyon Skigin and Giulio Zappa as well as in the concerts of the Young Artists Program of the Bolshoi Theatre in France: 2015 at Opéra de Toulon and at Opéra de Nice, 2016 at Opéra de Lille, and 2017 at Théâtre du Châtelet.
He also attended numerous master classes with Svetlana Nesterenko, Neil Shikoff, Sir Thomas Allen, Evgeny Nesterenko, Kurt Rydl, Carol Vaness, Elizabeth Vidal, Diane Zola, Alessandro Amoretti, John Fisher, John Norris, Stephanie Rhodes, Paul Curran and Giacomo Sagripanti.
Recent highlights include his debut at Bregenzer Festspiele in the title role of Onegin and Marullo in Rigoletto, at Glyndebourne Touring Opera as Guglielmo in Nicholas Hytner’s classic production of Così fan tutte, the same role he sang at Vilnius Opera and at the Bolshoi, where he also took part in the productions of Billy Budd, Boris Godunov and Carmen, Don Pasquale and Marcello in La Bohème at Warsaw Opera. He made another debut at Opera national de Paris as Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia and as Yeletsky in Queen of Spades at the Grange Festival.
Most recently Ilya performed the part of Prince Andrei Bolkonsky in War and Peace at the Novaya Opera Theatre. This season he will sing Guglielmo in a new production of Cosi fan Tutte at the Opera de Lyon, conducted by Duncan Ward.
Representation
Season Highlights
Selected Repertoire
| Bernstein | Candide (Maximilian, Captain) |
|---|---|
| Bizet | Carmen (Morales) |
| Britten | Billy Budd (Novice's Friend) |
| Donizetti | Don Pasquale (Malatesta) • Lucrezia Borgia (Ascanio Petrucci) |
| Mozart | Così fan tutte (Guglielmo) • Don Giovanni (title role) |
| Mussorgsky | Boris Godunov (Andrei Tchelkalov) |
| Prokofiev | War and Peace (Andrei Bolkonsky) |
| Puccini | La bohème (Marcello) |
| Rossini | Il barbiere di Siviglia (Figaro) |
| Tchaikovsky | Eugene Onegin (title role) • Pique Dame (Prince Yeletsky) |
| Verdi | Rigoletto (Marullo) |
Press
Pique Dame
The Grange FestivalJul 2023 - Jul 2023As her thwarted fiance, Prince Yeletsky, Ilya Kutyukhin is excellent, offering a suave and moving performance of his big aria
- The Times
- 23 July 2023
As Lisa’s intended husband Prince Yeletsky, Ilya Kutyukhin exudes nobility and injured honour.
- The Telegraph
- 23 July 2023
At the curtain calls, the largest cheer of the night when to the Russian baritone Ilya Kutyukhin, whose reassurances to Liza in Act 2 – as her betrothed, Prince Yeletsky – of his love and understanding, are some of the most sincere and dignified utterances of the evening. He confronts Herman with considerable authority and distinction in the final scene, too
- Bachtrack
- 23 July 2023
Ilya Kutyukhin as Prince Yeletsky got the opera’s best-known aria. Kutyukhin sang it with profound beauty and so brought out the Prince’s depth of feeling that we found it incomprehensible that Liza would reject him.
- Planet Hugill
- 23 July 2023
Ilya Kutyukhin conmovió en su celebérrima aria (“Ya vas liubliu”) con un legato de garganta joven, adecuadamente entre tentativo y palpitante, y bien de acuerdo con la declaración de amor y amistad de este malogrado personaje. [google translate] Ilya Kutyukhin was moving in his celebrated aria (“Ya vas liubliu”) with a youthful throaty legato, suitably tentative and pulsating, and in accord with this ill-fated character’s declaration of love and friendship
- Mundo Clasico
- 23 July 2023
