Hasmik Papyan |

Hasmik Papian

Hasmik Papyan graduated from the Yerevan State Conservatory. Komitas, first in the violin class, and then in the vocal class. Shortly after the debut at the Yerevan State Opera and Ballet Theater named after. Spendiarov as Rosina in The Barber of Seville and Mimi in La bohème, the singer gained international fame – she performed at the most prestigious opera stages in the world, such as the Vienna State Opera (Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Rachel in Zhidovka, Leonora in The Force of Destiny, Abigail in Nabucco, Lisa in The Queen of Spades, as well as the title roles in Tosca and Aida), Milan’s La Scala (Abigaille in Nabucco), Teatro del Liceu in Barcelona (Aida), the Paris Opera Bastille (Matilda in William Tell and Lisa in The Queen of Spades – this opera is recorded on DVD) and the New York Metropolitan Opera (Aida, Norma, Lady Macbeth and Leonora in Il trovatore). The singer has performed at opera houses in Berlin, Munich, Stuttgart, Hamburg and Dresden, as well as in Zurich, Geneva, Madrid, Seville, Rome, Bologna, Palermo, Ravenna, Lyon, Toulon, Nice, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Tel Aviv, Seoul, Tokyo, Mexico City, Santiago de Chile, Sao Paulo and many other cities. In North America, she sang at Carnegie Hall, the Cincinnati Opera Festival, San Francisco, Dallas and Toronto.

The main decoration of the singer’s repertoire is the role of Norma, which she performed in Vienna, Stuttgart, Mannheim, St. Gallen, Turin, Trapani (at the Musical July festival), Warsaw, Marseille, Montpellier, Nantes, Angers, Avignon, Monte Carlo, Orange (at the opera festival The Choregies), at the festival in Hedeland (Denmark), in Stockholm, Montreal, Vancouver, Detroit, Denver, Baltimore, Washington, Rotterdam and Amsterdam (the performance of the Netherlands Opera was recorded on DVD), in New York at the Metropolitan Opera Her extensive and the diverse repertoire extends from twelve parts from Verdi’s operas (from Violetta in La traviata to Odabella in Attila) and three queens in Donizetti’s operas (Anna Boleyn, Marie Stuart and Elisabeth in Roberto Devereux) to Gioconda and Francesca da Rimini ( in Zandonai), as well as Salome, Senta in The Flying Dutchman and Isolde in Tristan und Isolde.

Hasmik Papyan’s concert performances are also a great success. She performed the part in Verdi’s Requiem in Carcassonne, Nice, Marseille, Orange (twice at the festival The Choregies), Paris (at the Salle Pleyel and the theaters of the Champs-Elysées and Mogador), Bonn, Utrecht, Amsterdam (at the Concertgebouw), Warsaw (at the Beethoven Easter Festival), in Gothenburg, Santiago de Compostela, Barcelona (at the Teatro del Liceu and in Palace of Catalan Music) and Mexico City (in the Palace of Fine Arts and other venues). Hasmik sang Britten’s War Requiem in Salzburg and Linz, Janacek’s Glagolitic Mass at the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in Palermo, Montreux, Tokyo and Budapest (the Budapest performance was recorded and released by Naxos on CD). At the Arsenal concert hall in Metz, she sang the soprano part in Mahler’s Fourth Symphony and sang Strauss’ Four Last Cantos with great success. At the Radio France Festival in Montpellier, she also performed in the title role in Pizzetti’s Phaedra (recording released on CD). The Armenian opera star has sung in numerous galas and solo concerts, including in Washington DC, Los Angeles (St. Viviana Cathedral), Cairo, Beirut, Baalbek (at the International Festival), at the Antibes Festival, in Saint-Maxime (at the opening of a new concert hall), in the Dortmund Konzerthaus, London’s Wigmore Hall, the Musikverein in Vienna and the Gaveau Hall in Paris.

During her illustrious career, Hasmik Papian has performed with such outstanding conductors as Riccardo Muti, Marcello Viotti, Daniele Gatti, Nello Santi, Thomas Hengelbrock, Georges Pretre, Michel Plasson, James Conlon, James Levine, Myung Hoon Chung, Gennady Rozhdestvensky and Valery Gergiev . She sang with Nikolay Gyaurov, Sheryl Milnz, Ruggiero Raimondi, Leo Nucci, René Pape, Thomas Hampson, Renato Bruson, Jose van Dam, Roberto Alagna, Giacomo Aragal, Giuseppe Giacomini, Salvatore Licitra, Plácido Domingo, Neil Schicoff, Dolora Zajic, Grace Bumbry, Fiorenza Cossotto, Elena Obraztsova and many other world stars.