Baritone
Vasily
Ladyuk
Honoured Artist of Russia
Vasily Ladyuk

In 1997 Vasily Ladyuk completed his studies at the A.V. Sveshnikov Choir College as chorus director (Boris Lyashko’s class). In 2001, he graduated from the Russian Academy of Choral Art and in 2004 he completed his postgraduate studies at the Academy (Dmitry Vdovin’s class). 

In 2003-2020, the Novaya Opera Company soloist. Since 2007 — a guest soloist with the Bolshoi Theatre Opera Company.

In 2020 he joined the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre.

The singer performs on the leading opera stages such as Metropolitan Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Teatro Regio di Torino, Teatro Comunale di Bologna Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Norwegian National Opera, Mariinsky Theatre, Mikhailovsky Theatre.  

Awards

1st prize and Audience prize at the Francisco Vinas International Singing Contest 

2005, Barcelona

1st prize at the Plácido Domingo's Operalia, The World Opera Competition

2005, Madrid

1st prize at the Shizuoka International Opera Competition 

2005, Japan

Triumph Youth Award in literature and arts

2009

Oleg Yankovsky Creative Discovery Award

2012

'Onegin' National Opera Award ('Star' nomination)

2020

Honoured Artist of Russia

2023
Repertoire
2024
2023
2022
Repertoire at the Bolshoi Theatre

Prince Yeletsky (The Queen of Spades)
Onegin (Eugene Onegin)
Georges Germont (La Traviata)
Marcello (La Bohème)
Rodrigo (Don Carlo)
Robert (Iolanta)
Andrei Shchelkalov (Boris Godunov)
Dr. Malatesta (Donizetti’s Don Pasquale)
Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia)
Don Giovanni (Don Giovanni)
Vedenetian merchant (Sadko)

Repertoire

Prince Yamadori (Madama Butterfly) — Gran Teatre del Liceu

Shchelkalov (Boris Godunov) — La Theatre de la Monnaie in Brussels, Teatro Regio di Torino, Novaya Opera

Prince Andrei Bolkonsky (Prokofiev’s War and Peace) — Metropolitan Opera

Silvio (Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci) — Metropolitan Opera

Prince Yeletsky (The Queen of Spades) — Houston Grand Opera

Onegin (Eugene Onegin) — La Scala, Teatro Regio di Torino, Mariinsky Theatre, Mikhailovsky Theatre, New National Theatre, Tokyo, Novaya Opera, Perm Opera Ballet

Belcore (L’elisir d’amore) — Mariinsky Theatre, Mikhailovsky Theatre, Novaya Opera

Georges Germont (La Traviata) — Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Novaya Opera

Ezio (Atilla) — Gran Teatre del Liceu

Count di Luna (Il trovatore) — Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Novaya Opera

Marcello (La bohème) — Norwegian National Opera

Zurga (Les Pecheurs de perles) — Ópera de Las Palmas, Novaya Opera

Robert (Iolanta) — Les Musicales du Luberon Classical Music Festival (Marseilles), Novaya Opera

Figaro (Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia) — Novaya Opera

Papageno (Mozart’s Die Zauberflote) — Novaya Opera

In concert: Orff’s Carmina Burana, Messa di Gloria by Puccini, Rachmaninov’s Spring and Bells, Taneyev’s At the Reading of a Psalm.

Vasily Ladyuk founded the Moscow 'Opera Live' Festival, and appeared regularly in various festivals, like International Colmar Music Festival (France), Moscow Music Festival 'Vladimir Spivakov Invites', Cherry Orchard Open Art Festival, 'Crescendo' Music Festival and others.

Has toured to Turin, Paris, Pittsburgh and Tokyo. 

General partner of the Bolshoi Theatre — insurance company «Ingosstrakh»
Privileged sponsor of the Bolshoi Theatre — TBank
Privileged partner of the Bolshoi Theatre — GUM