Ilya Kutyukhin

Press

• Cosi fan tutte

  Opera de Lyon

  Jun 2025

  • Ilya Kutyukhin et Robert Lewis sont, dans les rôles de Guglielmo et Ferrando, des évidences auxquelles on peut raisonnablement prédire un très bel avenir dans le répertoire mozartien. Qu’une maison aussi conséquente que la seconde scène nationale leur offre l’aubaine d’endosser si tôt des rôles de premier plan doit être salué et s’inscrit dans une démarche de transmission qui, finalement, rejoint le propos didactique de la mise en scène. Dès qu’il ouvre la bouche pour chanter sa première réplique, Ilya Kutyukhin séduit instantanément par un timbre racé, sonore, aussi brillant dans les aigus que sombre dans les graves. En attendant de l’entendre un jour dans Figaro, le comte ou Don Giovanni, on se délecte de son Guglielmo auquel il parvient à donner un aplomb certain. Rien n’est apprêté ni scolaire dans le chant de ce jeune baryton russe formé à l’école du Bolchoï et l’aisance avec laquelle il évolue dans cette production témoigne chez lui de l’expérience déjà accumulée dans le même rôle chanté ces dernières années à Vilnius et pendant la tournée du festival de Glyndebourne. Très engagé dans les ensembles – nombreux dans Così fan tutte – et tout particulièrement dans le final du 1er acte, il démontre dans le duetto « Il core vi dono » et l’aria « Donne mie, la fate a tanti » une séduction de chant associée à une sincérité de jeu qui font mouche. [translated] Ilya Kutyukhin and Robert Lewis are, in the roles of Guglielmo and Ferrando, obvious performers, and one can reasonably predict a very bright future in the Mozart repertoire. The fact that a company as important as the Second National Stage offers them the opportunity to take on leading roles so early on is to be commended and is part of a process of transmission that ultimately aligns with the didactic intent of the production. From the moment he opens his mouth to sing his first line, Ilya Kutyukhin instantly captivates with a distinguished, resonant timbre, as brilliant in the high notes as it is somber in the low notes. While we wait to hear him one day in Figaro, the Count, or Don Giovanni, we delight in his Guglielmo, to which he manages to imbue with a certain poise. There is nothing contrived or academic in the singing of this young Russian baritone trained at the Bolshoi School, and the ease with which he moves in this production bears witness to the experience he has already accumulated in the same role, sung in recent years in Vilnius and during the Glyndebourne Festival tour. Very committed to the ensembles – numerous in Così fan tutte – and especially in the finale of the first act, he demonstrates in the duetto “Il core vi dono” and the aria “Donne mie, la fate a tanti” a seductive singing style combined with a sincerity of acting that hits the mark.

    • Premier Loge
    • 24 June 2025

  • Baryton tranquillement stylé, Ilya Kutyukhin est un Guglielmo moins histrionique que ceux d'une certaine tradition. [translated] A quietly stylish baritone, Ilya Kutyukhin is a less histrionic Guglielmo than those of a certain tradition.

    • Opera Online
    • 24 June 2025

  • The baritone Ilya Kutyukhin, as Guglielmo, also deserves praise: strong voice, solid acting, and a warm stage presence that complements his partner perfectly.

    • Opera Diary
    • 19 June 2025

  • Ilya Kutyukhin est un Guglielmo central. Sa fureur face à la trahison de sa bien-aimée fait perdre le contrôle de l’expérience au professeur – seulement un temps – et son visage est le modèle du buste présent sur scène. Il campe à la fois aplomb et légèreté dans une voix robuste qui suit ces deux mouvements [Translated] Ilya Kutyukhin is a central Guglielmo. His fury at his beloved's betrayal causes the professor to lose control of the experiment—only temporarily—and his face is the model for the bust on stage. He achieves both poise and lightness in a robust voice that follows these two movements.

    • Res Musica
    • 19 June 2025

  • Ilya Kutyukhin, offre en Guglielmo une voix (ré)percutante, un timbre clair, avec une aisance virtuose d’étendue, de dynamique et de coloration. [Translated] Ilya Kutyukhin, in Guglielmo, offers a (re)percussive voice, a clear timbre, with a virtuoso ease of range, dynamics and coloration.

    • Olyrix
    • 15 June 2025

• Pique Dame

  The Grange Festival

  Jul 2023 - Jul 2023

  • As 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

• Eugene Onegin

  Bregenzer Festival

  Aug 2023

  • Ilya Kutyukhin, trente ans et Premier Prix du concours Les Mozart de l'Opéra en janvier dernier à Paris, compose un Onéguine idéal : beau gosse en costume trois pièces, montre en or et cheveux coiffés avec soin, grain noble et solide de baryton russe, d'une agréable ampleur. [Translated] Ilya Kutyukhin, thirty years old and First Prize Winner of the contest The Mozarts of the Opera last January in Paris, composed an ideal Onegin: a handsome boy in a three-piece suit, gold watch and hair capped with care, noble and solid grain of Russian baritone, a pleasant magnitude.

    • Anaclase
    • 12 August 2019

• La bohème

  Teatro Regio Torino

  Feb 2022

  • lya Kutyukhin è stato un Marcello soddisfacente per il giovanile ardore del personaggio, ineccepibile per rotondità di voce e sonorità. [Translated] Ilya Kutyukhin was a suitable Marcello for the youthful ardor of the character, impeccable in the roundness of voice and sonority.

    • Opera Click
    • 13 February 2022

  • Ilya Kutyukhin (Marcello) baritono lirico di bel colore e già in possesso di una buona dizione italiana. [Translated] Ilya Kutyukhin (Marcello) lyric baritone of beautiful color and already in possession of good Italian diction.

    • GB Opera
    • 15 February 2022

  • Buono il Marcello del baritono russo Ilya Kutyukhin, voce interessante ma perfettibile sul piano della rotondità d’emissione. [Translated] The Marcello by the Russian baritone Ilya Kutyukhin is good, an interesting voice but perfect in terms of roundness of delivery.

    • Connessi all'Opera
    • 14 February 2022