Ilya Selivanov graduated cum laude from the St Petersburg Glinka Choral School in 2007. In 2012, he graduated from the Choral and Conducting Faculty and in 2013, from the Vocal Faculty of the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire. He has toured to Italy, Great Britain, Austria, Switzerland, France, and Germany. In 2012, he became a soloist of the Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers. At the Mariinsky Theatre, he has performed Lensky in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, Vladimir Dubrovsky in Napravnik’s Dubrovsky, Tsarevich Guidon in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Golden Cockerel and Tale of Tsar Saltan, Gritsko in Mussorgsky’s Sorochintsy Fair, Levko in Rimsky-Korsakov’s May Night, Anatol Kuragin in Prokofiev’s War and Peace, Prince in Prokofiev’s Love for Three Oranges, Prince Myshkin in Weinberg’s Idiot, Kai in Banevich’s Story of Kai and Gerda, Lucentio in Shebalin’s Taming of the Shrew in concert, Mishka in Shchedrin’s Not Love Alone, Count Almaviva in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, Tebaldo in Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi in concert, Alfredo in Verdi’s La traviata, Prince Alexis in Giordano’s Siberia in concert, and Prince in Dvořák’s Rusalka.
Nowadays, he also performs at the Bolshoi Theatre.