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9 July 2025

Russia’s Prominent Opera Singer Vasily Ladyuk Joins the Cast of the 2025 Spasskaya Tower Festival

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One of the best Russia’s opera soloists of the new generation, Vasily Ladyuk, will become part of the Seventeenth Spasskaya Tower International Military Tattoo. Between August 25 and 27, he will grace the ancient cobblestoners of Red Square with his extraordinary lyric baritone, belting out several iconic compositions by Alexandra Pakhmutova and Yuriy Gulyaev, two of the most renowned Russian composers.

His solo singing career spans more than two decades, and his accomplishments list appearances on the stage of some of the most prestigious opera houses in the world. He has already performed to the standing ovations of the Metropolitan Opera, Opéra de Paris Garnier, La Scala, Royal Opera House, Mariinsky Theatre, Gran Teatro del Liceo in Barcelona, Teatro Real de Madrid and many others. Vasily Ladyuk collaborates with such outstanding musicians as Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Spivakov, Placido Domingo, Vladimir Fedoseev, James Conlon, Antonio Pappano, Gianandrea Noseda.

Vasily Ladyuk started his professional career in 2003 at the Kolobov Novaya Opera Theatre of Moscow, one of the youngest musical theatres in Russia. In a matter of years, he made his debut at the Bolshoi Theater, the premier opera venue of the country.

Vasily Ladyuk is the prize-winner of the most prestigious international competitions for opera singers, including Francisco Viñas (Barcelona), Placido Domingo’s Operalia and Shizuoka (Japan). In 2009 he became the prize-winner of the Triumph Youth Award in literature and arts, and in 2011 he won the Oleg Yankovsky Prize in the Creative Discovery 2011–2012 nomination. In 2020, he won the prestigious Onegin Prize in the ‘Star’ nomination. In 2014, Vasily Ladyuk organized the ‘OPERA Live’Music Festival, a unique artistic project that annually takes place on stage at the best concert venues in Moscow.

In 2025, the Spasskaya Tower Festival overwhelming production will bring together over 1,500 of the world’s finest performers representing Russian and foreign military and law enforcement agencies. The seventeenth run of the tattoo is dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Great Patriotic Victory, and once again will be enjoying the unwavering organizational and/or financial support of the Russian Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Culture, and Moscow Government Department of Culture.

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