Russian soprano Dilyara Idrisova was born in Ufa in Bashkortostan in 1989 and began her musical studies with Milyausha Murtazina in her home city before attending a course at the Moscow Conservatory, which she completed with distinction in 2014. She has also attended masterclasses with Deborah York in England, Max Emanuel Cencic in Austria and Ildar Abdrazakov and Julia Lezhneva in Russia. In 2016 she won the second grand prix and the audience prize at the International Singing Competition in Toulouse.
Since 2014 Dilyara Idrisova has been a member of the Bashkir State Opera and Ballet Theatre in Ufa. Her international career began at this time. In the course of the 2014/15 season she took part in a European tour of Handel’s Alessandro, singing Lisaura alongside Julia Lezhneva, Max Emanuel Cencic and Xavier Sabata with Armonia Atenea under George Petrou. Performances were given in the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow, the Palais des Beaux-Arts (BOZAR) in Brussels and at the Handel Festival in Halle. Subsequent appearances included Arasse in Hasse’s Siroe in Kraków, Moscow, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Opéra de Lausanne and the Hesse State Theatre in Wiesbaden, Sabina in Pergolesi’s Adriano in Siria at the Opéra Royal in Versailles and at the Theater an der Wien and Bach’s St Matthew Passion and St John Passion at the Philharmonie im Gasteig in Munich.
Recent highlights include Poppea in Handel’s Agrippina at the Opera Vlaanderen in Antwerp, Colloandra in Salieri’s La fiera di Venezia at the Schwetzingen Festival, Giuditta in Vinci’s Gismondo, re di Polonia at the Theater an der Wien, her debut at the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie in February 2019 and CD recordings of Porpora’s Germanico in Germania and Handel’s Ottone.
Following her Salzburg Festival debut in Porpora’s Polifemo, Dilyara Idrisova will be appearing as Bellezza in Handel’s Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno at the Opéra national de Montpellier, as Giuditta in Moscow, Warsaw and at the Klangvokal Music Festival in Dortmund and as Evanco in Handel’s Rodrigo at the Theater an der Wien.
