Platon Silayev

Platon Silaev
Countertenor

Platon Silaev was born in 2002 in St. Petersburg. Since 2021, he has been a student at the N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg State Conservatory (class of Professor Victoria Evtodieva). He also studied at the Elena Obraztsova International Academy of Music. He has participated in masterclasses with Alessandro Svaba and Paolo Di Napoli.

He is a laureate of international and all-Russian competitions, including the St. Petersburg Arts Assemblies, Star Rhapsody, Crystal Magnolia, CLARINI OF THE 21ST CENTURY, Voice of Youth in St. Petersburg, and Dialogue of Vocal Cultures.

In 2024, he performed the role of Orestes (Offenbach's La Belle Hélène) at the Helikon-Opera Moscow Musical Theatre.

Platon participated in "Opera for All," "Rosa Khutor. Classics," "Vladimirsky LIVE," "Petersburg Rains," and "Opera for All" festivals
He has worked with such conductors as Philipp Chizhevsky, Ivan Petrenko, Sergei Stadler, Mikhail Egiazaryan, Alexei Aslanov, Vladislav Karklin, Sergei Efayev, Alexander Kashpurin, Vladimir Shulyakovsky, and Ioann Sevzikhanov. He has also worked with stage directors Alexey Stepanyuk, Ilya Ustyantsev, and Ekaterina Denisova.

He has performed with ensembles such as the Sergei Silaevsky Ensemble, the Vladimir Shulyakovsky Early Music Ensemble, and the Una Volta ensemble.

In 2015, he participated in the Channel One program "A Poet in Russia Is More Than a Poet" with Yevgeny Yevtushenko.

He maintains an active concert schedule, participating in opera performances in Moscow and St. Petersburg.