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Egils Silins is a Latvian operatic Bass-baritone and opera director.

The bass-baritone Egils Silins was born in Latvia and graduated from the Latvian Academy of Music. After having his debut at the Latvian National Opera  and winning ten international competitions he made his debut at the Wiener Staatsoper. He gained huge international acclaim singing the title role in ‘Le Demon’ (Rubinstein) at the Bregenzer Festspiele, and further more performed at prestigious music festivals including The Tanglewood Music Festival, Savonlinna Opera Festival and Glyndebourne Festival.

2019 Egils Silins has been appointed general director of the LNO in Riga.

Current and future projects as singer include as well Telramund at Vienna State Opera, Kurwenal at Copenhaguen Opera, the new Fidelio production at ROH Covent Garden, Grand Pretre at ABAO Bilbao, Orest at Wiesbaden Maifestival and Wotan in the Ring Cycle, Wotan and Holländer at NNTT Tokyo and Berlin, debuts as Simone in Florentinische Tragödie und Hans Sachs,  among others.

Most recent engagements include Barak at Staatsoper Berlin, Amfortas and Walküre Wotan at Staatsoper Hamburg, Walküre Wotan with Bayreuther Festspiele on tour and at San Carlo di Napoli,  his debut at the Bayreuther Festspiele under the baton of Christian Thielemann, the Demon new production at Teatro del Liceo Barcelona, Wanderer at Opera Munich, Lysiart at Dresdner Philharmonie, Telramund at Tokyo Spring Festival, among others. Earlier he returned to Opera de Paris with Samson et Dalila and Lohengrin with maestro Philippe Jordan, and sung as well Wanderer at Leipzig and Budapest Opera, Holländer at Teatro del Liceo Barcelona, Jochanaan at ABAO and Festival Verbier.

In past seasons he performed the Wotan and Jochanann at the Opernhaus Zürich, Holländer at Teatro Real, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Semperoper and Royal Opera House, Wotan and Sebastiano at Deutsche Oper Berlin, Amfortas and Klingsor  at Teatro Liceo Barcelona and Opernhaus Zürich, Prince Igor again in Zürich, Jochanaan and Holländer at London Royal Opera House, Ring Cycle at Opera de Paris and Bayerische Staatsoper Münich, Jochanaan at Volksoper Vienna, Telramund and Holländer at NCPA Beijing and at Festival de Orange, Wotan at Opera de Monte-Carlo, Scarpia at Staatsoper Berlin, Wagner festival and Tokio Nomori Festival, Kurwenal at Deutsche Oper Berlin, Jochanaan at Ravinia Festival Chicago, Amfortas at NNTT Tokio, Wotan and Wanderer at Leipzig Opera, Holländer at Düsseldorf Opera, Escamillo at Hamburg Opera, Wotan and Wanderer at Tokyo Nomori Spring Festival with Maestro Marek Janowski, Mandryka at Oper Köln, Ring/Wotan-Wanderer at Budapest Wagner festival, Pizarro at Vienna State Opera Jago at Cincinnati Hall with Maestro James Conlon.

Egils Silins performes regularly at many of the world´s leading opera houses, including, Wiener Staatsoper,  Teatro alla Scala, Metropolitan Opera, Hamburgische Staatsoper, ROH London, Semperoper Dresden, Deutsche and Staatsoper Berlin, Teatro del Liceu, Teatro Real, Mariinsky Theatre, Opernhaus Zürich, Chicago Opera, Staatstheater München.

His repertoire (more than 90 roles), include: 'Holländer, Wotan/Rheingold/Walküre, Wanderer/Siegfried, Amfortas-Klingsor/Parsifal, Telramund/Lohengrin, Kurwenal/Tristan und Isolde, Jochanaan/Salome, Barak/Woman without Shadows, Orest/Elektra, Demon/Demon, Rangoni-Boris/Boris Godunov, Gd. Prêtre/Samson et Dalila, Mephisto/Faust and Damnation de Faust, Sebastiano/Tiefland, Jago/Otello, Scarpia/Tosca and Germont/Traviata.'

He works with world’s renowned conductors as Marek Janowski, Christian Thielemann, Philippe Jordan, Christoph von Dohnányi, Zubin Mehta, Ricardo Mutti, Fabio Luisi, Seiji Ozawa, James Conlon, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Marcello Viotti, Marc Minkowski, Andrew Davis, Colin Davis, Daniele Gatti, Vladimir Fedosseyev, Neeme Järvi, Mariss Jansons, Andris Nelsons, Sebastian Weigle, Kazushi Ono, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, among others.