Gayane Babajanyan

Mezzo Soprano / >emerging artist<

Highlights­                                                                                        

  • 2018 1st prize at the Angelo Loforese Singing Competition in Milan                                                                                   
  • From 2017/18 soloist at the Novaya Opera, roles Carmen, Rosina, Siébel, Stéphano, Lucretia                                     
  • 2019 debut at the Bolshoi Theatre, as Sorceress (Dido and Aeneas)                                                                             
  • received the Onegin Prize 2019 for Lucretia
  • 2022 Mercedes at Savonlinna Opera Festival

Biography

Gayane Babajanyan is a young Armenian mezzo-soprano who studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory graduating in 2015. As a member of the Mariinsky Academy, she performed Pippo in Rossini’s La Gazza Ladra and Dorothée in Massenet’s Cendrillon at the Mariinsky Theatre in 2016/2017.

In 2017 Babajanyan joined the ensemble of the Moscow Novaya Opera where her repertoire includes the title role of Carmen, Rosina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel), Siébel (Faust), Stéphano (Roméo et Juliette), Orlovsky (Die Fledermaus) and most recently, to great acclaim, Lucretia in The Rape of Lucretia. In concert, she has sung Bersi (Andrea Chénier) and has performed in productions of Johann Strauss, the Waltz King and Waltzes, Tangos & Foxtrots. She portrayed the role of Gypsy in K. Boyarsky’s opera Pushkin on tour at the Grange Park Opera in 2018.

Last season, Gayane Babajanyan made her house debuts at the Bolshoi Theatre Moscow as the Sorceress in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and at the Mikhailovsky Theatre as Rosina. In the summer of 2022, Gayane sang the role of Mercedes (Carmen) at the prestigious Savonlinna Opera Festival in Finland and she will return there this season as Rosina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) in the summer of 2023.

Gayane Babajanyan received the prestigious Onegin Award in 2019, the 1st prize at the Angelo Loforese Competition 2018 and the Grand Prix at the Star Rhapsody Competition 2017.

Video

Rosina

Lucretia "Give him this orchid" from The Rape of Lucretia

Habanera from Carmen

Lucretia "Give him this orchid" from The Rape of Lucretia

Press Kit

Photos

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