Ilya Kutyukhin

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  • Baritone

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.

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Paul Meyer zu Schwabedissen

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Senior Artist Manager

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Associate Artist Manager

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Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt

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Season Highlights

Jun 2025
Opéra de Lyon
Cosi fan tutte (Guglielmo) Duncan Ward (conductor) Marie-Ève Signeyrole (director)

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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 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

    • As Lisa’s intended husband Prince Yeletsky, Ilya Kutyukhin exudes nobility and injured honour.

    • 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

    • 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.

    • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

    • 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.

    • 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.

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