Gayane Babajanyan,

mezzo-soprano. She graduated from the Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg State Conservatory in 2015 (Prof. Kuseleva’s class).

In 2013, she performed Zemfira in Rachmaninoff’s Aleko and Flora in Verdi’s La Traviata in the State Opera and Ballet Theatre of the Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg State Conservatory. In 2015, the singer participated in the Magnificent Strauss music festival (St. Petersburg). In 2016–2017 she worked as a trainee at the Academy for Young Singers at the Mariinsky Theatre.

Since 2017 she has been a soloist of the Novaya Opera Theatre.

Awards and Honours

Prize-winner of the 1st International Music Competition Heirs of Orpheus (1st prize, Alben, Bulgaria, 2013)
Prize-winner of the International Competition for Russian Romance Performers Romansiada (3rd prize, Moscow, 2014)
Prize-winner of the Inventus Canti International Competition (1st prize, Slovakia, 2015)
Prize-winner of the Star Rhapsody International Voice Competition (Gran prix, St. Petersburg, 2017)

Roles performed at the Novaya Opera

Rosina in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia

Hänsel in Engelbert Humperdinck's The Gingerbread House, or Hänsel und Gretel

Lucretia in Benjamin Britten's The Rape of Lucretia

Mother Sparrow in Podgaits's Barankin, be a sport!

Siébel in Gounod's Faust

Stéphano in Gounod's Romeo et Juliette

Bersi in Giordano's Andrea Chénier (in concert)

Parts in the productions: Johann Strauss, the Waltz King (gala concert), Waltzes, Tangos & Foxtrots (gala concert)

Novaya Opera in the UK (15.06.2018)

Novaya Opera will tour in the UK on July 11–13, 2018… Learn more…


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