Idil Kutay
soprano
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Idil Kutay joined Oper Frankfurt's Opera Studio in 2023/24, making her house debut with Barbarina in Tilmann Köhler's new production of Le nozze di Figaro, which was followed by Papagena in Die Zauberflöte, 1st Goblin in the first staged performances in Frankfurt of Wolfgang Fortner's Don Perlimplín's Love for Belisa in his Garden a nd 5th Maid in a revival of the new Elektra. During the 2024/25 season you can hear her as the Priestess in Aida, 1st Squire / Flowermaiden in a new production of Parsifal and the Blessed Virgin in Honegger's Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher. She made her debut at the Bregenz Festival in 2024 singing Lauretta and Fanny in new productions of Giannni Schicchi and Rossini's La cambiale di matrimonio directed by Brigitte Fassbaender. She gained her masters at the Dutch National Opera Academy, where she sang roles including Cornelia (Graun's Cleopatra e Cesare), Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus), the title role in Pauline Viardot's Cendrillon and Beth March in Mark Adamo's contemporary adaptation of Little Women, gaining invaluable experience working with conductors including Felix Bender and Karel Deseure and the director Dirk Schmeding. She won a scholarship to the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, where she was awarded her bachelors summa cum laude. She won 2nd prize and the 2019 Alīda Vāne Singing Competition in Latvia and reached the finals of the 2022 Neue Stimmen competition in Gütersloh.