Ilya Astafurov

• Prize-winner of the 3^rd prize of the VII International Competition of Young Musicians Musical Vladivostok 2012

Ilya Astafurov was born in Vladivostok. In 2012 he graduated from the Far Eastern State Academy of Arts where he studied with Elena Glushenko.

He has taken part in vocal master-classes with Ulf Bästlein (Graz, Austria), Galina Vishnevskaya and Konstantin Pluzhnikov.

In 2013 he became a soloist of the Primorsky Regional Philharmonia.

He participated in the international Figaro in the Far East project (performing the role of Don Basilio in Le hozze di Figaro by W.-A. Mozart), and Great Beethoven (the tenor part in Symphony № 9 conducted by Mikhail Arkadyev). He collaborates as a soloist with the Elegy Primorsk Folk Violin Ensemble under the direction of Leonid Vaiman, and the Sadko ensemble of Russian folk instruments under the direction of V. Sergeev.

In 2013 he began working at the Primorsky Opera and Ballet Theatre and became a soloist of the Opera Company in September 2015.

Since 2016 he has been a member of the Opera Company of the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre.

In May 2024, as a member of the Opera Company of the Primorsky Stage, he participated in the I Far East Easter Festival.

Repertoire at the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre includes:
Duke of Mantua, Matteo Borsa (Rigoletto, G. Verdi);
Malcolm (Macbeth, G. Verdi);
Goro (Madama Butterfly, G. Puccini);
Beppe (Pagliacci, R. Leoncavallo);
Prince (The Love for Three Oranges, S. Prokofiev);
Bastien (Bastien und Bastienne, W.-A. Mozart);
Tamino, Monostatos (Die Zauberflöte, W.-A. Mozart);
Ernesto (Don Pasquale, G. Donizetti);
Tsar Berendey (The Snow Maiden, N. Rimsky-Korsakov);
The Devil (Christmas Eve, N. Rimsky-Korsakov);
Bomely, Two Young Lads (The Tsar’s Bride, N. Rimsky-Korsakov);
Husar (Mavra, I. Stravinsky);
Lensky, Triquet (Eugene Onegin, P. Tchaikovsky);
Chaplitsky (The Queen of Spades, P. Tchaikovsky);
Alméric (Iolanta, P. Tchaikovsky);
Flogged Monk, Prince, Magnetiser, Old Man in the Woods, Storyteller (The Enchanted Wanderer, R. Shchedrin);
A Servant in the Ball, Prince Andrei's Orderly, Monsieur de Beausset, Lieutenant Bonnet (War and Peace, S. Prokofiev);
Old Man, 1^st Shipman (The Tale of the Tsar Saltan, N. Rimsky-Korsakov);
A Drunken Cossack (Mazepa, P. Tchaikovsky);
Lebedev (Idiot, A. Smelkov, concert performance);
The Count of Lerma (Don Carlo, G. Verdi);
Gaston, Giuseppe (La Traviata, G. Verdi);
Messenger (Aida, G. Verdi);
Pong (Turandot, G. Puccini);
Don Basilio (Le nozze di Figaro, W.-A. Mozart);
Alfred (Die Fledermaus, J. Strauss II);
Remendado (Carmen, G. Bizet);
The Little Prince (The Little Prince, L. Klinichev);
The Female-dog (Zhuchka) (The Turnip, R. Sagdiev);
Nikolenka (Scenes from the Life of Nikolenka Irtenev, S. Banevich);
Vasily (Murych the Cat, S. Banevich);
The Rooster (Town Musicians of Bremen, G. Gladkov).

Repertoire also includes:
A Humpbacked Gambler (The Gambler, S. Prokofiev), Beppe Harlequin (Pagliacci, R. Leoncavallo), Chekalinsky, Master of Ceremonies (The Queen of Spades, P. Tchaikovsky), Mozart (Mozart and Salieri, N. Rimsky-Korsakov), Don Juan, 1^st Guest (The Stone Guest, A. Dargomyzhsky), The Simpleton, Misail (Boris Godunov, M. Musorgsky), Gvozdev (The Story of a Real Man, S. Prokofiev), 2^nd Traitor, 2^nd Writer, 1^st Wedding Guest (Doctor Zhivago, A. Lubchenko), Boni (The Gypsy Princess, E. Kálmán), Blind (Die Fledermaus, J. Strauss II), Kunz Vogelgesang (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, R. Wagner, concert performance), A Scrivener (Khovanshchina, M. Musorgsky), 3^rd pageboy (Parsifal, R. Wagner).

The concert repertoire also includes the tenor parts in Verdi's Requiem and Symphony № 9 by Beethoven.