Alex Ilvakhin
Ukrainian baritone Alexander (Alex) Ilvakhin studied at the Odessa College of Arts and Culture, continued his vocal training at the Nezhdanova National Academy of Music in Odessa from 2016 onwards, and obtained a Bachelor of Music degree there in 2020. He then completed a master's degree with Mark Wildman at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
Alex gained stage experience early on, both as an actor and as a musical and opera performer. At the Young Theatre and the Odessa Music Theatre, he appeared in leading roles in plays and musical productions, including Mowgli, Aladdin's Magic Lamp, The Golden Key, Karlsson on the Roof, The Canterville Ghost, Kiss Me, Kate, Pinocchio and many more.
He has participated in many national singing competitions and won prizes in Ukraine, Turkey and the Czech Republic. In 2018, he impressed viewers on the television show ‘The Voice of Ukraine’. He supplemented his vocal training at the Rodolfo Celletti Belcanto Academy in Martina Franca. In 2022, he was awarded second prize and a special prize from the Fundacion Victoria de Los Angeles at the Certamen Nuevas Voces Ciudad de Sevilla competition in Spain.
In June 2023, Alex received the Drake Calleja Trust Scholarship and an award from the Fondazione Paolo Grassi. In September 2023, he was awarded the Pavarotti Prize by the Royal Academy of Music and in 2024 he won the Mercedes Viñas Extraordinary Prize at the Tenor Viñas Competition. In the summer of 2024, Alex Ivakhin appeared in the new production of Aladino by Nino Rota at the Festival della Valle d'Itria.
At the Vienna State Opera, he has sung roles such as Johann (Werther), Schmidt (Andrea Chénier), the Novice’s Friend (Billy Budd), Comedian (Die verkaufte Braut), Prince Yamadori (Madama Butterfly) and 2nd Knight of the Grail (Parsifal) and NOE in childerns’ production Sagt der Walfisch zum Thunfisch im NEST.
Performances with Alex Ilvakhin
with Georg Nigl, Sarah Aristidou, Xavier Sabata, Maria Nazarova, Isabel Signoret, Wolfgang Bankl, Marina Prudenskaya, Gerhard Siegel, Conductor: Pablo Heras-Casado
Le Grand Macabre
Cast on Wednesday 25. March 2026
Abo 10
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Einen Wochentag und Lieblingsplätze wählen und fünf Vorstellungen in einer Saison genießen.
In diesem Abo sind folgende Vorstellungen enthalten:
| 17. September 2025 | Tannhäsuer |
| 22. Oktober 2025 | Kallirhoe (Ballett) |
| 12. November 2025 | Faust |
| 25. März 2026 | Le grand macabre |
| 20. Mai 2026 | Les Pêcheurs de perles |
with Slávka Zámečníková, Pavol Breslik, Michael Laurenz, Peter Kellner, Conductor: Tomáš Hanus
Die verkaufte Braut
Cast on Thursday 26. March 2026
Abo 17
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Einen Wochentag und Lieblingsplätze wählen und fünf Vorstellungen in einer Saison genießen.
In diesem Abo sind folgende Vorstellungen enthalten:
| 11. September 2025 | Otello |
| 20. November 2025 | Dialogues des Carmélites |
| 26. Februar 2026 | Luisa Miller |
| 26. März 2026 | Die verkaufte Braut |
| 23. April 2026 | Giselle (Ballett) |
with Slávka Zámečníková, Pavol Breslik, Michael Laurenz, Peter Kellner, Conductor: Tomáš Hanus
Die verkaufte Braut
Cast on Sunday 29. March 2026
with Slávka Zámečníková, Pavol Breslik, Michael Laurenz, Peter Kellner, Conductor: Tomáš Hanus
Die verkaufte Braut
Cast on Tuesday 31. March 2026
Zyklus »Komische Oper«
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Humorvolle Inszenierungen und mitreißende musikalische Interpretationen entführen das Publikum in eine Welt voller Komik, Satire und lebendiger Charaktere.
with Gerald Finley, Franz-Josef Selig, Klaus Florian Vogt, Werner Van Mechelen, Jennifer Holloway, Conductor: Axel Kober
Parsifal
Cast on Thursday 2. April 2026
with Gerald Finley, Franz-Josef Selig, Klaus Florian Vogt, Werner Van Mechelen, Jennifer Holloway, Conductor: Axel Kober
Parsifal
Cast on Sunday 5. April 2026
with Gerald Finley, Franz-Josef Selig, Klaus Florian Vogt, Werner Van Mechelen, Jennifer Holloway, Conductor: Axel Kober
Parsifal
Cast on Wednesday 8. April 2026
Abo 11
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Einen Wochentag und Lieblingsplätze wählen und fünf Vorstellungen in einer Saison genießen.
In diesem Abo sind folgende Vorstellungen enthalten:
| 01. Oktober 2025 | Il barbiere di Siviglia |
| 03. Dezember 2025 | Věc Makropulos |
| 11. März 2026 | Don Pasquale |
| 08. April 2026 | Parsifal |
| 27. Mai 2026 | Manon (Ballett) |