Ilya Kutyukhin

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Baritone
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  • 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.