Escape from the Bolshoi

Escape from the Bolshoi

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norman lebrecht

September 18, 2022

Ilya Silchukou, principal baritone at the Bolshoi Theatre in Minsk, lost his career in August 2020 when he joined a protest on the theatre steps against the fraudulent election of the Putin-backed Belarus dictator Alexander Lukashenko.

It has taken him two years to get his wife and children out of Belarus. They now occupy a small apartment in Boston.

Next weekend Silchuko will give his US debut recital there.

The Boston Globe has more.

These are Ilya’s protest videos.

Comments

  • Claudio says:

    The 2020 protest has claimed the best people of Minsk Bolshoi theatre, hope Ilya will be fine in US and find the best way develop his career.

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