Ilya Lapich
baritone
Born in Rostov-on-Don (Russia) in 1988, his parents introduced him to the art of making music at an early age. In 1997 his family moved with him to Bolivia, where he took lessons at the Eduardo Laredo Music Institute. Although Ilya Lapich played several instruments such as piano, violin and guitar, his talent for solo singing became apparent early on. After returning to his native Russia in 2008, he began studying acting there and got his first acting engagements. After four successful years, he moved to Moscow to devote more time to singing training at the Russian University of Theater Arts. In June 2015 he successfully completed his singing studies in Moscow.
He made his operatic debut as Count Robinson in Cimarosa's Il matrimonio Segreto at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theater.
Ilya Lapich is a prizewinner of the Schloss Rheinsberg Chamber Opera in 2015 and 2016. In autumn 2015 he was invited to an opera academy in Monaco.
He made his successful debut in November 2015 with the role of Mister X in Imre Kalman's Circus Princess at the National Opera Daugavpils in Latvia.
On September 2, 2016, he took on the role of Germano in Rossini's “La Scala di Seta” at the Beethoven Campus Bonn in the auditorium of the University of Bonn.
From the 2016 season he is a member of the National Theater Mannheim.
Ilya made his debut at the Gut Immling Festival in the role of Leporello in the summer of 2019 with great success.
In 2021 he appeared as Escamillo at the Wernigerode Festival.
In the 2021/22 season he will take on the roles of Eugen Onegin at the National Theater Mannheim,
Guglielmo ("Così fan tutte"), Figaro ("Il barbiere di Sivigla"), Melot ("Tristan and Isolde")
Repertoire
| Composer | Part | Opera |
|---|---|---|
| Bizet | Morales | Carmen |
| Britten | Ned Keen | Peter Grimes |
| Cimarosa | Count Robinson | The secret marriage |
| Debussy | Golaud | Pelléas et Mélisande |
| Donizetti | Belcore | The Elixir of Love |
| Doktor Malatesta | Don Pasquale | |
| Haydn | Enrico | The Uninhabited Island |
| Kalman | Mister X | Die Zirkusprinzessin |
| Leoncavallo | Silvio | Pagliacci |
| Loewe | Freddy | My Fair Lady |
| Milhaud | Le Сharont, Orphee | Les malheurs d'Orphée |
| Monteverdi | Antinoo | The Return of Ulysses to His Homeland |
| Mozart | Papageno | The Magic Flute |
| Leporello, Masetto | Don Giovanni | |
| Guglielmo | Così fan tutte | |
| Graf Almaviva | The Marriage of Figaro | |
| Offenbach | Mars, Pluto, Aristeus | Orpheus in the Underworld |
| Orff | Baritone | Carmina Burana |
| Prokofiev | Farfarello | The Love for Three Oranges |
| Puccini | Schaunard | The Bohème |
| Yamadori | Madama Butterfly | |
| Angelotti | Tosca | |
| Rachmaninow | Virgils Geist | Francesca da Rimini |
| Rossini | Fiorello, Figaro | The Barber of Seville |
| Dandini | The Cinderella | |
| Germanus | The Silk Ladder | |
| R. Strauss | The One-eyed Man | The Woman without a Shadow |
| Tschaikowski | Onegin | Eugene Onegin |
| Robert | Iolanta |
| Verdi | Barone Douphol, Dottore | The Traviata |
|---|---|---|
| Marullo | Rigoletto | |
| Christiano | A ballo in mask | |
| Wagner | Melot | Tristan und Isolde |