‘The magnificent Calàf, Ilgam Valiev, captivated the entire audience with his amazing voice and incredible emotions, felt one hundred percent...’
On 4 March, the soloist of the Bashkir Opera and Ballet Theatку, People's Artist of the Republic of Tatarstan and the Republic of Bashkortostan Ilgam Valiev will perform in the role of Calàf in the latest work by genius Puccini at the Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus.
‘Valiev’s Calàf delights from the very first note. Poignant and very beautiful… You should adjust your plans for such performers. You should catch such performances!’ people write about Valiev.
Canio in Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo, Alfredo in La traviata by Giuseppe Verdi, the Duke in Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi, Faust in the eponymous opera by Charles Gounod, Jose in Carmen by Georges Bizet, Cavaradossi in Tosca by Giacomo Puccini, Eric in Der fliegende Holländer by Richard Wagner and many other roles Valiev successfully performed on the stages of the Yekaterinburg State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre (2010-2016) and the Bashkir Opera, where he is a soloist now. The artist was awarded a special prize at the Golden Mask National Theatre Festival for the role of the Prince in The Love for Three Oranges by Sergei Prokofiev. He often performs in many major Russian theatres in Moscow, Kazan, Perm, Chelyabinsk.