Ilya Bannik (Bass)
• Prize-winner at the Stanislaw Moniuszko International Competition (Warsaw,
2004) • Prize-winner at the IV International Rimsky-Korsakov Young Opera
Singers’ Competition (St Petersburg, 2000) • Finalist and special prize
recipient at the Plácido Domingo Operalia 2000 International Competition (Los
Angeles, 2000) and Оperalia 2002 (Paris, 2002) • Finalist and special prize
recipient at the Maria Callas International Young Opera Singers’ Competition
Voci Verdi (Parma, Italy, 2000) • Diploma-recipient at the III International
Rimsky-Korsakov Young Opera Singers’ Competition (St Petersburg, 1998)
Ilya Bannik was born in Nikolaev (Ukraine). He entered the Glinka Academic
Capella Choral School in St Petersburg in 1980. Performed in the Capella Boys’
Choir. Between 1990 and 1995 he studied at the Herzen State Pedagogical
University. In 1994 he entered the vocals faculty of the St Petersburg State
Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire (class of Professor Georgy Seleznev), from which
he graduated in 1999. Soloist with the Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers
from 1999. Soloist with the Mariinsky Opera Company since 2009.
Roles performed at the Mariinsky Theatre include: Svetozar, Farlaf
(Ruslan and Lyudmila) Konchak (Prince Igor) Prince Gremin (Eugene
Onegin) Grandfather Frost, Maslenitsa (The Snow Maiden) Viking Merchant
(Sadko) Prince Yuri, Bedyai (The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and
the Maiden Fevronia) Tsar Dodon (The Golden Cockerel) Baron (The Miserly
Knight) Emperor of China, Chamberlain (Le Rossignol), Oedipus, Creonte,
Tiresias (Oedipus Rex) Celio (The Love for three Oranges) Faust (The
Fiery Angel) Young Lad (Semyon Kotko) General Yermolov, Тikhon
Shcherbaty, Marshal Berthier, Captain Ramballe, Barclay de Tolly, General
Bennigsen (War and Peace) Official in the Newspaper Dispatch Office (The
Nose) Steward, Policeman (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk) Don Basilio (Il
barbiere di Siviglia) Lord Sidney, Baron Trombonok (Il viaggio a Reims)
Raimondo (Lucia di Lammermoor) Bass (stage version of Verdi's Requiem)
Il Conte Rodolfo (La sonnambula) Samuel (Un ballo in maschera)
Filippo II, A Monk, The Grand Inquisitor (Don Carlo) Ferrando (Il
trovatore) Sparafucile (Rigoletto) Colline (La bohème) Banco
(Macbeth) King of Egypt (Aida) Bonze (Madama Butterfly)
Мéphistophélès (La Damnation de Faust) Lindford, Luther (Les Contes
d’Hoffmann) Oracle of Neptune (Idomeneo, re di Creta) Leporello (Don
Giovanni) Second Soldier (Salome) Timur (Turandot) Old Hebrew
(Samson et Dalila in concert) Water-Sprite (Rusalka by Antonín
Dvořák) Collatinus (The Rape of Lucretia in concert) Don Quichotte (Don
Quichotte) Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte)
The singer’s concert repertoire includes the bass roles in Stravinsky’s Les
Noces, Verdi’s Requiem, Mozart’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Berlioz’
symphonie dramatique Roméo et Juliette, Bach’s Magnificat and Schubert’s Stabat
Mater.
As a guest soloist, Ilya Bannik performs at the world’s finest opera houses.
Roles performed at these theatres include: King René (Iolanta, Welsh National
Opera; Royal Albert Hall, London), Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte, Welsh National
Opera), Timur (Turandot, Welsh National Opera), Donner (Das Rheingold, Palau de
les Arts Reina Sofía, Valencia), Priest, Old Convict (Katerina Ismailova,
Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris), Il Commendatore (Don Giovanni, Teatro Carlo Felice,
Genoa), Nazarene (Salome, Оpéra Bastille, Paris), Voice of the Oracle (Idomeneo,
Opéra de Paris) and Sparafucile (Rigoletto, Lille).
In 2005, he took part in new productions of War and Peace (Оpéra Bastille,
Paris) and Iolanta (King René, Royal Albert Hall, London). Has taken part in the
Italy’s Verdi Festival and the UK’s Glyndebourne Festival, appearing as Banco
(Macbeth). He has also performed under such conductors as Valery Gergiev,
Plácido Domingo, Zubin Mehta, Kent Nagano, Justus Frantz and Carlo Rizzi. Has
toured to the UK, Italy, Belgium, France, Germany, Japan, Finland, the USA and
towns throughout Russia.
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