Ilya Silchuk

The Russian baritone Ilya Silchuk was a member of the Junges Ensemble of the Semperoper Dresden for two years and has been a member of the permanent ensemble there since the 2023/24 season. The roles that he has sung in Dresden include Schaunard (La bohème), Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Kilian (Der Freischütz), Kuligin (Káťa Kabanová) and Hermann / Schlemil (Les Contes d’Hoffmann).

Ilya Silchuk has won prizes in several international singing competitions, including first prize at the Walter and Charlotte Hamel Foundation Opera Competition in Hanover (2023), third prize in the Concorso Lirico Internazionale di Portofino (2022), the special prize of the Saxon State Opera Dresden at the Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition in Erfurt (2021) and the second prize in the Bachelor’s degree category at the International Giulio Perotti Singing Competition in Ueckermünde (2019). He won the Wagner Young Talent Prize in the competition in Leipzig in 2020, where he also received a Bayreuth scholarship; in the same year he received a scholarship from the Ad Infinitum Foundation Lübeck.

In 2021 he performed the role of Figaro in a filmed version of Le nozze di Figaro, produced by PAMY Media productions (Dornach / Switzerland).

Ilya Silchuk was born in 1993 in Nizhny Novgorod and studied from 2018 to 2022 at the University of Music Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden with Jörg Hempe. Previously he completed an acting degree at the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute in Moscow and was engaged for two years by the Vakhtangov Theatre. His theatre roles included Prince Nekhlyudov in Tolstoy’s Resurrection and the notary Andrei Ilyich in Chekhov’s A Misfortune.