Vazgen Ghazaryan

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Vazgen Ghazaryan (born July 5, 1978 in Yerevan , Armenian SSR , Soviet Union ) is an Armenian opera singer ( bass ).

Life

Vazgen Ghazaryan studied singing at the Yerevan State Conservatory from 1997 to 2005 and also percussion until 2000 . From 1999 to 2002 he was a member of the chamber choir of the radio and television station of Armenia and at the same time did his two years of military service in the armed forces of Armenia , where he was employed as a drummer and solo singer. In 2003 he graduated from the Conservatory's Opera Studio. He was also a soloist in the choir of the Church of the Holy Almighty Virgin Mary of the Ararat Eparchy of the Armenian Apostolic Church from 2002–2004 .

He made his operatic debut in the 2004/05 season as Basilio ( Il barbiere di Siviglia ) at the Conservatory's Opera Studio. From 2005 he was engaged as a soloist at the Armenian State Opera, where he a. a. 2006 when Sarastro ( Die Zauberflöte ) could be heard.

Ghazaryan has been a member of the Theater Erfurt ensemble since 2007/08 and made his debut here with the title role in Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele . Other roles were Bartolo ( Le nozze di Figaro ), Colline ( La Bohème ), Bertram ( Robert le diable ), Zaccaria ( Nabucco ), Filippo and Grand Inquisitor ( Don Carlo ), Gremin ( Eugene Onegin ), Sparafucile ( Rigoletto ), Komtur and Leporello ( Don Giovanni ), Meßner and a turnkey ( Tosca ), Banquo ( Macbeth ), Veit Pogner and Hans Foltz ( Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg ) a. a.

Guest engagements have also taken him to many other opera and concert halls around the world, including the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa , the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon , the Barbican Hall in London , the Mikhailovsky Theater in St. Petersburg , the Craiova Theater , the Bonn Theater , the Mainfrankentheater in Würzburg, the Chemnitz Theater , the Darmstadt State Theater , the Mannheim National Theater . In Moscow he sang Hunding from Die Walküre with the Russian National Orchestra in a concert performance under the direction of Kent Nagano .

Vazgen Ghazaryan also takes part in major opera festivals and was a. a. to be heard at the Italian Stresa Festival , the St. Gallen Festival and the Opera Classica Festival in Bad Schwalbach .

Recordings

Awards

Reviews

  • Thomas Molke: ... Vazgen Ghazaryan equips the villain Bertram with a downright diabolical bass, whose threatening depths give the listener goose bumps. in: Online Musik Magazin, Erfurt, October 2011
  • Ursula Mielke:  Outstanding: Vazgen Ghazaryan as Mephisto. It was his evening. Bravo! in: Thüringer Allgemeine , Erfurt, April 13, 2015 [2]
  • Larissa Gawritschenko, Thomas Janda: artistically, you  face Vazgen Ghazaryan (King René). He fills the house with his father's bass. He too has internalized the text and lives his role with every note. His speech intelligibility proves to be super-precise. Its voluminous bass is haunting and yet pleasant. He gets goose bumps with his voice and he makes the royal role present to the listeners and inspires them. in: Online-Merker, Vienna, October 31, 2015 [3]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website Theater St. Gallen ( Memento of the original from July 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.theatersg.ch
personal data
SURNAME Ghazaryan, Vazgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Armenian opera singer (bass)
DATE OF BIRTH 5th July 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Yerevan , Armenian SSR , Soviet Union