Hasmik Papian

The Armenian soprano Hasmik Papian graduated from “Komitas” High Academy in Yerevan first as a violinist, then as a singer. After her debut at the Armenian National Opera as Mimì, she was engaged as a soloist among others by Opera Bonn and Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Düsseldorf. Soon, she started an international career and has appeared since at numerous theaters, including the most prestigious operatic stages in the world. Her repertoire ranges from Donna Anna (DON GIOVANNI), Mathilde (GUILLAUME TELL), Rachel (LA JUIVE) and Micaëla (CARMEN), passing by Mimì (LA BOHÈME), Magda (LA RONDINE), TOSCA, SUOR ANGELICA, BUTTERFLY and Margareta/ Elena (MEFISTOFELE) to Lisa (THE QUEEN OF SPADES). It contains twelve Verdi-roles: LA TRAVIATA, Desdemona (OTELLO), AIDA, Leonora (IL TROVATORE and LA FORZA DEL DESTINO), Elisabetta (DON CARLO), Elena (I VESPRI SICILIANI), Amelia (SIMON BOCCANEGRA), Elvira (ERNANI), Abigaille (NABUCCO), Odabella (ATTILA) as well as the REQUIEM. A central part for her is NORMA; she has appeared in this role among others in Vienna, at Teatro Regio in Turin, in Mannheim, Baltimore, Detroit, Denver and Washington, at Opéra de Marseille, at the festivals Chorégies d'Orange and Luglio Trapanese (Sicily), at Rotterdam De Doelen Concert House and at The Netherlands Opera Amsterdam. Hasmik Papian has sung at the Vienna State Opera, as well as the state operas of Munich, Stuttgart, Hamburg and Berlin, at Deutsche Oper Berlin, at the opera theaters of Cologne, Essen, Karlsruhe, Geneva and Zurich; Montpellier, Toulon and Nizza; at Auditorium Maurice Ravel in Lyon, at Festival de Carcassonne and at Opera La Bastille in Paris; at Vlaamse Opera Antwerpe/ Gent; at the Comunale of Bologna, the Massimo of Palermo, at Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome, at Ravenna Festival and La Scala of Milan; at the Real Madrid and at the Maestranza in Sevilla; at London Wigmore Hall; at Teatr Wielki in Warsaw; at the Marinskij St. Petersbourg; at New Israeli Opera, Tel Aviv; New Tokyo Opera; in Seoul; in Santiago de Chili; in Sao Paolo; at Canadian Opera Company, Toronto; Cincinnati Opera Festival, San Francisco Opera, Carnegie Hall and Metropolitan Opera New York to name just a few. The Armenian soprano has appeared with many notable conductors – such as Maurizio Arena, Marcello Viotti, Jean-Claude Casadessus, Georges Prêtre, Michel Plasson, Leonard Slatkin, James Conlon, Myun Wun Chung, Riccardo Muti and Valerij Gergiev. Her versatile concert repertoire includes works from Bach, Pergolesi, Vivaldi, Mozart, Beethoven to Rossini, and from Brahms, Fauré, Britten to Strauss. Contemporary composers like Kancheli or Kilar are part of it, as well as Khatchaturian, Terterian and Mansurian. Her lied repertoire extends from Schubert and Glinka to Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and Shostakovitch; of spezial importance are Armenian composers – above all Komitas, the founder of modern classical Armenian music. She has been performaning the works of Komitas lately among others in Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich, Washington DC, Beirut, Cairo, Yerevan, Brussels and at London’s Wigmore Hall. Hasmik Papian lives in Vienna, Austria.