Beginning in the 2025/26 season, soprano Idil Kutay will join the ensemble of the Aalto Music Theater Essen. Her upcoming roles include Liù in Turandot, Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel, and the Third Woman in Die Fritjof-Saga by Elfrida Andrée. She will also appear as  Knappe and Blumenmädchen in Parsifal, and as Helen, Queen in the world premiere of Die verzauberte Stadt by Samuel Penderbayne. In addition, she will perform the soprano solo in Beethoven’s Egmont as part of a philharmonic concert.

Idil was a member of the Opera Studio at Oper Frankfurt from 2023 to 2025. During this time, she appeared as the High Priestess in Verdi’s Aida, La Vierge in Honegger’s Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher, and made her debut as Gretel in the children’s production of Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel. She also performed the roles of Erster Knappe and Zweites Blumenmädchen in a new production of Parsifal, and portrayed Barbarina in Tilmann Köhler’s staging of Le nozze di Figaro, conducted by Thomas Guggeis. Other roles she took on at Oper Frankfurt included Papagena in Die Zauberflöte, the First Leprechaun in Wolfgang Fortner’s Don Perlimplín’s Love for Belisa in His Garden, and the Fifth Maid in Elektra.

At the Bregenz Festival in 2024, Idil took on the roles of Fannì in Rossini’s La cambiale di matrimonio and Lauretta in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi in a new double-bill production under the direction of KS Brigitte Fassbaender.

Idil was featured in a celebratory concert highlighting Mozart operas, including scenes from Don Giovanni, where she took on the role of Donna Anna with the Residentie Orkest under the baton of Felix Bender. Additionally, on the concert stage, she performed as the soprano soloist in Rossini’s Petite Messe solennelle and Cimarosa’s Requiem.

She won second prize in the 2019 International Singing Competition Alīda Vāne in Latvia and was a finalist in the 2022 International Singing Competition Neue Stimmen in Gütersloh, Germany.

Idil holds a Master of Music in Opera from the Dutch National Opera Academy, where she performed diverse roles such as Cornelia in Graun’s Cleopatra e Cesare, Rosalinde in J. Strauss’ Die Fledermaus, Cendrillon in P. Viardot’s Cendrillon, and Beth March in M. Adamo’s Little Women.

Concluding her academic journey with distinction, she earned the Scholarship of Excellence from the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague upon completing her Bachelor’s degree. Additionally, she was recognized as one of the fifteen talented musicians awarded the Dr. Nejat Eczacibasi Foundation Music Scholarship.

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Idil Kutay is represented by ArteMIS worldwide.