Ilona Domnich is a lyric soprano, described by critics as a memorable voice of silken beauty with a luminous edge to the tone, a sensitive musician and an actress of magnetic presence.

She was chosen by Opera Now 2014 as one of their Top 10 high flyers, a “new generation of sopranos who are destined to have impressive careers” and was The Artist of the month in Opera Now magazine. Her recent CD “Surrender, voices of Persephone” of operatic arias and duets with the bariton Leo Nucci is released world-wide by Signum Records.

Operatic highlights include roles of Mimi (La Boheme), Gilda (Rigoletto), Olympia, Antonia, Gulietta (Hoffmann), Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Jacqueline (Fortunio), Elle (La Voix Humaine), Melisande (Pellease et Melisande), Magda (La Rondine), Tatyana (Onegin), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Eurydice (Der neue Orpheus), Venus (Judgement of Paris), Contessa (Le Nozze di Figaro), Madam Herz (Der Schauspieldirektor).

Ilona studied piano and singing in St. Petersburgh, Jerusalem and Royal College of Music in London. With Vera Rosza, Enid Hartle, Joan Rogers, Susan Roberts and now with Montserrat Caballe. Ilona's career is growing worldwide.

She has performed at English National Opera, English Touring Opera, Notre dame de Paris, Barbican, Royal Albert hall, Buxton and Grange Park Opera festivals, with BBC Concert Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Opera and music festivals in UK, Europe, Russia, Israel and Japan.

Recent and future performances include the role of Glauce in Medea with Gianluca Marciano conducting, Carmina Burana with John Lubbock conducting, Schostakovich/Blok songs with Gould Piano trio, Rachmaninoff recital with Sholto Kynoch, Ravel Shaharezade with Alexander Dmitriev conducting the St. Peterburg philharmonic orchestra and concerts in Dubai and in Birmingham and Malvern with Martin Yates and CBSO.