baritone

The young Russian baritone Ilya Lapich was born in 1988 in Rostov-on-Don, but grew up with his family in Bolivia, where he discovered his passion for singing at an early age. He returned to his hometown to study acting and, while still a student, performed his first roles at the Maxim Gorky Academic Theatre. From 2012 to 2015 he studied voice at the State Institute for Theatre Arts in Moscow.

In 2014 he made his professional opera debut as Count Robinson in Cimarosa’s “Il matrimonio segreto” in Moscow. In 2015 and 2016 Ilya Lapich was a prizewinner at the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg.

As part of his training, he took part in the Young Artist Programme of the Académie de l’Opéra de Monte-Carlo as well as at the Bayreuth Festival.

Since the 2018/19 season, following two seasons in the opera studio, the young singer has been a member of the ensemble at the Nationaltheater Mannheim, where he has appeared, among others, as Dandini in “La Cenerentola”, as Schaunard in “La Bohème”, as Sid in “Albert Herring”, as Belcore in “L’elisir d’amore”, as Doctor Malatesta in “Don Pasquale”, and as Count in “Le nozze di Figaro”. More recently, he has added Eugene Onegin, Figaro in “Il barbiere di Siviglia”, and Guglielmo in “Così fan tutte” to his Mannheim repertoire.

Guest appearances have taken him as Leporello in “Don Giovanni” to the Immling Festival, as Escamillo to the Wernigerode Festival, and most recently as Guglielmo in “Così fan tutte” as well as Count in “Le nozze di Figaro” to the Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, the Aalto-Theater Essen, and the Tyrolean State Theatre Innsbruck.