| Kristina Mkhitaryan, guest soloist, soprano. She graduated from the Galina Vishnevskaya Theatre Studio (2004) and from the Gnesin Music College (Ruzanna Lisician's class, 2008). After graduation she continued her studies at the vocal faculty of the Russian Gnesin Academy of Music. From 2009 to 2012 she was a soloist of the Gnesin opera studio. In 2012–15 she was a member of the Young Artist Program of the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia. At current she is a soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre.Her repertoire comprises the parts of Xenia (Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov), a Polovtsian maiden (Borodin's Prince Igor), Gilda (Verdi's Rigoletto), Norina (Donizetti's Don Pasquale), Amina (Bellini's La Sonnambula), Marfa (Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride) to name a few. Kristina Mkhitaryan performed in the leading theaters such as the Royal Danish Opera (Lauretta in Puccini’s Il Trittico), the Norvegian opera (Violetta in Verdi's La traviata, Michaela in Bizet's Carmen), Deutsche Opera Berlin (Violetta), the Royal Opera House (Michaela) and Sydney Opera House (Gilda). Awards and Honours- prize-winner of Plácido Domingo’s Operalia, the World Opera Competition (2nd prize, Astana, 2017)
- prize-winner of the Viotti International Music Competition (1st prize, Vercelli, Italy, 2014)
- prize-winner of the Neue Stimmen Competition (3rd prize, Gütersloh, Germany, 2013)
- prize-winner of the Queen Sonja International Music Competition (1st prize, Oslo, 2013)
- finalist of the Belvedere International Singing Competition (Vienna, 2012)
- prize-winner of the Obukhova All Russia Competition for Young Singers (2nd prize, Lipetsk, 2012)
- prize-winner of the Tenor Viñas International Singing Contest (3rd prize, Spain, 2012)
- diploma-winner of the Glinka International Singing Competition (2011)
- prize-winner of the Bella Voce International Student Competition (1st prize, 2011)
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