Karine Babajanyan

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Karine Babajanyan

Karine Babajanyan , Armenian Կարինե Բաբաջանյան, (born in Yerevan ) is an Armenian opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Karine Babajanyan's musical training began at the age of 6. She first learned to play the piano and in 1987 graduated from the Romanos Melikyan Music College in Yerevan with a diploma as a piano teacher and piano accompanist. Six years later she received a diploma as a choir director at the Yerevan State Conservatory "Komitas" . There she also studied singing with Tatevik Sazandaryan, expanding her musical education to include a degree as an opera and concert singer as well as a singing teacher. In 1998 she finished her studies in solo singing with distinction. She completed her vocal training with Mirella Parutto and Dunja Vejzovic .

From 1996 to 1999 Karine Babajanyan was initially engaged at the National Theater in Yerevan. In 1999 she moved her professional focus to Germany, which has meanwhile become her second home. Her first engagements took her to the Theater Koblenz and the Theater Bielefeld , as a guest to the Komische Oper Berlin , the State Opera Hanover and the Aalto-Theater Essen. From 2003 to 2011 she was a member of the Stuttgart State Opera ensemble . She has been working as a freelancer since 2011.

Karine Babajanyan has worked as a solo and concert singer at the Grand Théâtre de Genève , the Palace of Arts in Budapest, Det Kongelige Teater in Copenhagen, the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing, the Teatro Politeama in Palermo, the Semperoper Dresden Deutsche Oper am Rhein , the Zurich Opera House , the Berlin State Opera , the Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp, the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki, the New Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv, the New National Theater in Tokyo, the Graz Opera House , the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, the Cologne Opera , the Mannheim National Theater , the Bern City Theater , the Hessian State Theater Wiesbaden, the Hamburg State Opera , the Basel Theater , the Frankfurt Opera and the Dorset Opera.

In addition, she was awarded by the Bregenz Festival , the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden , the Ruhrtriennale , the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival , the Rheingau Music Festival , the Prague Autumn International Music Festival, the Notte Bianca Reggio Calabria, the DomStufen-Festspiele in Erfurt and the International Opera Festival Miskolc in Hungary committed.

A high point of her career was her appearance in 2008 as Puccini's “ Tosca ” at the Bregenz Festival in the James Bond film “ A Quantum of Solace ” with Daniel Craig as James Bond.

Karine Babajanyan worked with the conductors Daniel Oren , Carlo Rizzi , Nicola Luisotti , Robin Ticciati , Lothar Zagrosek , Muhai Tang , Stefan Soltesz , Alexander Joel , Helmuth Rilling , Piergiorgio Morandi, José Cura , Jonathan Nott , Carlo Montanaro, Julian Kovatchev and Axel Kober and with the directors Werner Schroeter , Peter Konwitschny , Philipp Himmelmann , Graham Vick , Jossi Wieler , Tatjana Gürbaca , Monique Wagemakers and Dietrich Hilsdorf .

Her repertoire includes the great soprano roles with Mozart (Elettra, Elvira, Contessa, Fiordiligi) as well as various roles from the Italian subject (Mimi, Cio-Cio-San, Manon Lescaut, Liù, Suor Angelica, Leonora in “ Il trovatore ”, Elisabetta in “ Don Carlo ”, Amelia in “ Un ballo in maschera ”, Leonora in “ La forza del destino ”, Desdemona, Maddalena in “ Andrea Chénier ”, Nedda, Norma), but also Rachel from Halévy's “ La juive ”, Janáčeks Jenůfa , Tatjana from Tchaikovsky's " Eugene Onegin " and Maria from Tchaikovsky's " Mazeppa ".

Her star role is Cio-Cio-San in Puccini's " Madama Butterfly ", which she embodied in 15 productions.

She also sang the role of " Carmen " at the Stuttgart State Opera . She also made excursions into the German subject with Wagner and Strauss . At the end of September 2014 she had her premiere as Ariadne in Strauss' “ Ariadne auf Naxos ” at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf.

In October 2015 Karine Babajanyan debut as Elena in a new production of Mefistofele at the side of Joseph Calleja and René Pape at the Bavarian State Opera .

Prizes and awards

  • 1st prize at the Avetik Isahakyan Singing Competition 1996
  • 1st prize at the Austrian-German singing competition 1997
  • Special prize at the “Competizione Dell 'Opera” in Hamburg 1998
  • Nomination for “Best Young Singer” of 2001 by the magazine OPERNWELT for “Madama Butterfly” and “Manon Lescaut” at the Komische Oper Berlin
  • Nomination “Best Singer” of the year 2003 in the critics' survey NRW for “Madama Butterfly” and “Jenufa” at the Bielefeld Theater
  • Awarded the Komitas order as "Armenia's cultural ambassador in the world" by the Diaspora Ministry in Armenia

Radio and television broadcasts

  • 2003 Russian Operetta - WDR live broadcast from the Cologne Philharmonic
  • 2013 Ottorino Respighi "Il Tramonto" with the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn - broadcast by SWR
  • 2014 Mozart's “Don Giovanni” broadcast from Opera Vlaanderen on Belgian television

Discography

  • 2008: Karine Babajanyan - Puccini Arias, audio CD, EMI Classics 2677312

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ I will be taking the people's warmth and a handful of sun from the homeland ... ( Memento of November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). Interview with “Hayern Aysor”, project of the Armenian Diaspora Ministry. Retrieved November 7, 2014.
  2. ↑ Tosca singer enthusiastic about Bond shooting . Advance notice from ORF. Retrieved November 7, 2014.
  3. ↑ Commentary on CD at presto classical. Retrieved November 7, 2014
  4. ↑ A floor lamp tragedy . Online review of the Stuttgart “Carmen”. Retrieved November 7, 2014.
  5. ↑ Review at revierpassagen.de . Retrieved November 7, 2014
  6. ^ Bavarian State Opera: Mefistofele. In: Bavarian State Opera. Archived from the original on October 2, 2016 ; accessed on October 2, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Yearbook OPERNWELT 2001
  8. ^ Theater pur issue 7/8 2003
  9. ↑ Laughing and slaving in the east . Review by Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. Retrieved November 7, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Babajanyan, Karine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION armenian opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH before 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Yerevan