Ilia Staple received her vocal training first with her mother, later at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz in the class of Katerina Beranova.
Her first engagements took her to Leipzig Opera as Gwendolen (“Mein Freund Bunbury”) and to Chemnitz Opera as Papagena (“Die Zauberflöte”).
She appeared as Christine (“Phantom of the Opera”) at the Musicalfestwochen Bad Leonfelden. At the International Bruckner Festival Linz she performed the roles of Mrs. Herberstorff (“Alea”, UA) Bubikopf (“Emperor of Atlantis”) and Blonde (“Abduction from the Seraglio”). As Midili Hanum (“Rose of Stambul” and as Miss Edith (“The Jux Marriage”) she sang at the Lehàr Festival Bad Ischl.
The Theatre of Baden (Austria) saw Ilia Staple sing the part of Eurydice (“Orpheus in the Underworld”) under the direction of Ulrike Beimpold.
From 2016-2018 Ilia Staple was a member of the Upper Austrian Opera Studio at the Landestheater Linz and sang Despina (“Così fan tutte”), Sandmännchen und Taumännchen (“Hänsel und Gretel”), Klärchen Hinzelmann (“Im Weißen Rössl”), Ciboletta (“Nacht in Venedig”), Rosetta (“Leonce und Lena”, EA), Flaminia (“Il mondo della luna”) as well as in guest productions as Bellezza (“Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno”), Ermengarde (“Hello Dolly”), Cis (“Albert Herring”).
Ilia Staple also appears regularly on the concert stage and has performed Bach’s St. John Passion, Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s Creation, Schwertsik’s Sonnengesang and numerous solo parts in various masses.
In summer 2018 will appear as Bronislawa (“Der Bettelstudent”) at the Bühne Baden, as Maria (“West Side Story”) at the Musicalfestwochen Bad Leonfelden and in a concert at the Lehar-Festival Bad Ischl.
From 2018/19 she will be a member of the ensemble at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich. A guest contract will take her to the Salzburg Landestheater to sing Franziska Cagliari in “Wiener Blut”.
