Hasmik Papian

Hasmik Papian

Hasmik Papian ( Armenian Հասմիկ Պապյան , born September 2, 1961 in Yerevan ) is an Armenian opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

She received her training at the Yerevan State Conservatory, first as a violinist , then as a singer. After her debut at the Yerevan National Opera, her path led through stops in Moscow and Warsaw to the Bonn Opera and later to Düsseldorf.

She was soon invited to the most important opera stages and concert halls in the world, where she has been at home for many years: Metropolitan Opera and Carnegie Hall New York, Vienna State Opera and Wiener Musikverein , La Scala in Milan , Paris Bastille Opera , Teatro Real Madrid, Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, ​​London Wigmore Hall, Concertgebouw and De Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam, Zurich Opera House , at the State Operas of Berlin , Munich , Stuttgart , Hamburg , Dresden etc. She has performed in almost all European countries, in Israel, Lebanon (Baalbeck International Festival), Japan and Korea, as well as Latin America (Mexico, Chile, Brazil). Hasmik Papian is regularly present in Canada (Toronto, Montreal) and in the USA (including Washington National Opera , San Francisco Opera , Colorado Opera Denver, Michigan Opera Detroit, Cincinnati Opera Festival, Dallas Opera etc.).

repertoire

Her repertoire includes parts from the lyrical repertoire to dramatic soprano parts: from Mozart's Donna Anna to Rossini's Mathilde , ( Wilhelm Tell ) and Jacques Fromental Halévy's La Juive to Verdi - over twelve parts, etc. a. La traviata , Aida , Desdemona , Elisabetta , Amelia ( Simon Boccanegra ), Leonora ( La forza del destino and Il trovatore ), Amelia ( Un ballo in maschera ), Elena ( I vespri siciliani ), Lady Macbeth , Abigaille , Odabella ( Attila ) and the Requiem - as well as Puccini ( Mimì , Tosca , Suor Angelica , La rondine , Butterfly ), Tchaikovsky (Lisa in Queen of Spades ) and Wagner (Senta in The Flying Dutchman , Isolde in Tristan and Isolde ). The central part in her repertoire is Bellini's Norma , which she has recently enjoyed with great success a. a. at the Les Chorégies d'Orange Festival in southern France, in Marseille, Nantes, Angers, Montpellier, Avignon, Monte Carlo, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Stockholm, Vienna, St. Gallen, Stuttgart, Mannheim, Turin, Trapani, at the Metropolitan Opera New York , sang in Baltimore, Washington DC, Detroit, Denver, Montreal, Vancouver etc. Since October 2006 there has been a DVD release of her Amsterdam-based Norma. Since January 2009 she has worked on three other roles in the bel canto repertoire: Queen Elizabeth I of England in Donizetti's Roberto Devereux (at the Dallas Opera); the second Donizetti queen - Maria Stuarda - followed in January 2010 in Trieste; the third ( Anna Bolena ) in November 2010 again in Dallas. In 2011 the singer made her debut in two more roles in the dramatic coloratura soprano field: Zandonais Francesca da Rimini and Ponchielli's La Gioconda .

Cooperation with conductors, concerts

The Armenian soprano has performed with renowned conductors such as Riccardo Muti , Marcello Viotti , Maurizio Arena , Bruno Campanella , Georges Prêtre , Michel Plasson , Gary Bertini , James Levine , James Conlon , Pinchas Steinberg , Daniel Oren , Richard Bonynge , Thomas Hengelbrock , Ivor Bolton , Chung Myung-whun , Gennady Roshdestwenski and Valeri Gergiev performed. Hasmik Papian also devotes himself to extensive concert activities and is committed to making Armenian music better known in the world (works by Komitas Vardapet - also in a representative SACD release since September 2006 - as well as Jeranian, Kanatschian, Tigranian, Tschuchadjian, Awet Terterjan and Tigran Mansurjan ). In spring 2007 the soprano sang recitals with Armenian music in Paris (Salle Gaveau), London (Wigmore Hall) and Vienna ( Musikverein ) and in September 2008 premiered a vocal cycle by Mansurian dedicated to her in Montpellier. 2004 she was awarded a People's Artist of the Armenian Republic the title (equivalent to the German title Kammersängerin ), 2005, she was honored for her contributions to Armenian culture and its role as a "cultural ambassador of Armenia in the world" by the head of the Apostolic Armenian Church , Catholicos Karekin II. Nersissian , awarded the Order of Saint Mesrop Mashtots . The artist lives in Vienna .

Web links

• Hasmik Papian homepage
• Hasmik Papian at Operabase (engagements and dates)
• Norma with Hasmik Papian in the title role on DVD at opus arte
• SACD with 35 songs by the Armenian composer Komitas, sung by Hasmik Papian

Individual proof

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