The Austrian coloratura soprano Ilia Staple has been a member of the ensemble of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz Munich since 2018/19. In the current season she performs a broad repertoire including roles like Gilda (“Rigoletto”), Queen of the Night (“Magic Flute”), Gretel (“Haensel and Gretel”), Musetta (“La bohème”) and Cunegunde (“Candide”), among others.
For her role debut as Eliza in a new production of “My fair Lady” in autumn 2019 at the Salzburg Landestheater she has just been called “The Star of the Evening” by the critics. He had returned to that theatre after her great success in the 2018-19 season as Cagliari in “Wiener Blut” by Johann Strauss.
Ilia recently was also successful in operetta production at the theatre of Baden in 2019 as Christel von der Post in Carl Zeller’s “Der Vogelhändler”, in 2018 as Bronislawa in Millöcker’s “Der Bettelstudent” and in 2017 as Eurydice in “Orpheus in der Unterwelt” directed by Ulrike Beimpold. At the Lehár Festival in Bad Ischl she performed as Midili Hanum (“Rose of Stambul”) and as Miss Edith (“The Juxtaposition”). As Maria in “West Side Story” and as Christine in “Phantom of the Opera” she gained a lot of attention at the Musical Festival Bad Leonfelden.
In addition to the opera stage, Ilia Staple also regularly dedicates herself to concert work: She interpreted Bach’s St. John Passion, Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s Creation, Schwertsik’s Canticle of the Sun and numerous solo parts in various masses.
From 2016-2018 Ilia Staple was a member of the Upper Austrian Opera Studio at the Landestheater Linz, where she sang Despina (“Così fan tutte”), Sandmännchen und Taumännchen (“Haensel and Gretel”), Klärchen Hinzelmann (“Im Weißen Rössl”), Ciboletta (“Night in Venice”), Rosetta (“Leonce und Lena”, EA), Flaminia (“Il mondo della luna”), among others.
The young soprano had already had her first engagements as Gwendolen (“My Friend Bunbury”) at the Leipzig Opera and as Papagena (“The Magic Flute”) at the Chemnitz Opera. During the international Brucknerfest Linz she sang the roles of Frau Herberstorff (“Alea”, creation), Bubikopf (“Emperor of Atlantis”) and Blonde (“Abduction from the Seraglio”), as well as in guest productions as Bellezza (“Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno”), Ermengarde (“Hello Dolly”), C sharp (“Albert Herring”).
Ilia Staple received her vocal training first privately with Hildegard Krichbaumer, later at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz in the class of Katerina Beranova.
