Valerija Iljin

Valerija Iljin is a Lithuanian soprano who recently graduated with a Master of Arts with distinction from the Royal Academy of Music. Valerija holds a Bmus degree from Trinity Laban and a BA theatre degree from VIKO and LCM. Valerija is a member of Dolora Zajick’s Institute for Young Dramatic Voices and American Wagner Project, performed in Leeds Lieder festival as an emerging artist. In 2024, Valerija became a semi-finalist in the Hans Gabor Belvedere competition and won the Isabel Jay Memorial and Third Medici prizes. In 2023, she made her Carnegie Hall and Wigmore Hall debut. Valerija was a semi-finalist of the Kathleen Ferrier Awards 2023 and a runner-up of the Clara Schumann lieder competition. Upcoming roles: Violetta (La Traviata), Eva (Die Meistersinger). Recent opera and theatre credits include Fiordiligi in Cosi fan Tutte (VOF), Larina in Onegin (HGO), Chrysothemis in Elektra (DVPB), Elsa in Lohengrin (RAM), Norma in Norma (RAM), 1st Lady in Die Zauberflöte (MOS) Maria in the Westside Story (Vilnius Philharmonic), Susanna and Emma (R&D with Bolshoi theatre).