Hasmik Papyan

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Hasmik Papian

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Hasmik Papian (Armenian: Հասմիկ Պապյան; born 1961 in Yerevan) is an Armenian soprano.

 

[edit] Biography

Hasmik Papian graduated from High Academy in Yerevan first as a violinist, then as a singer. After her debut at the Armenian National Opera, she was invited as a soloist among others by Opera Bonn and Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Düsseldorf, Germany. Soon, she started an international career and has since appeared at numerous theaters, including the most prestigious operatic stages and concert houses in the world like The Metropolitan Opera and Carnegie Hall New York, San Francisco Opera, Washington National Opera, La Scala of Milan, Opéra Bastille in Paris, London Wigmore Hall, the Vienna State Opera and Musikverein Vienna, Concertgebouw and De Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam, Zurich Opera, Mariinsky Theatre St. Petersburg, as well as the state operas of Munich, Stuttgart, Hamburg and Berlin. [1]

 

 

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Her repertoire ranges from Mozart's Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Rossini's Mathilde (William Tell), Halévy's Rachel (La Juive) and Bizet's Micaëla (Carmen), passing by Puccini's Mimì (La Bohème), Magda (La Rondine), Tosca, Madama Butterfly and Boito's Margareta/ Elena (Mefistofele) to Tchaikovsky's Lisa (The Queen of Spades). It contains twelve Verdi-roles: La Traviata, Desdemona (Otello), Aida, Leonora (Il Trovatore and La forza del destino), Elisabetta (Don Carlo), Elena (I vespri siciliani), Amelia (Simon Boccanegra), Elvira (Ernani), Abigaille (Nabucco), Odabella (Attila) as well as the Requiem. A central part for her is Bellini's Norma; she has appeared in this role among others at Vienna Volksoper, at the Regio of Turin, in Montreal, Baltimore, Detroit, Denver and Washington DC, at Opéra de Marseille, Opéra de Montpellier, at the festivals Chorégies d'Orange (South of France) and Luglio Trapanese (Sicily), in Mannheim, Stuttgart, St. Gallen, Rotterdam and at De Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam. The Amsterdam production has been released on DVD in October 2006. In November 2007, she is announced as Norma at the Metropolitan Opera.

 

[edit] Artistic Appearances

Hasmik Papian has appeared in most European countries, in Israel, Japan, Latin America (Mexico, Brazil, Chile), as well as Canada and the United States where she is invited regularly. She has performed with many notable conductors – such as Riccardo Muti, Valery Gergiev, Georges Prêtre, Michel Plasson, Marcello Viotti, Maurizio Arena, Myung-Whun Chung, Gennadi Roshdestvensky, Plácido Domingo, Leonard Slatkin and James Conlon. She is also very active promoting the music of fellow Armenian composers such as Komitas Vardapet, Yeranian, Kanatchian, Tchoukhadjian, Avet Terterian, Tigran Mansurian and Tigranian in her recitals. In 2006, a SACD with 36 songs of Komitas has been released, including some nine songs on German poetry recorded here for the first time ever. In 2004, she was honored with the title of the "People's Artist" of the Republic of Armenia. In 2005, she was awarded the Order of Saint Sahag-Saint Mashtots from the hands of Catholicos Garegin II of Armenia at the Holy Mother See of the Armenian Apostolic Church in Echmiadzin, for her role as a "cultural ambassador of Armenia throughout the world". Hasmik Papian lives in Vienna, Austria.

 

 

 

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PAPIAN, HASMIK

Hasmik Papian, soprano

 

Born in Armenia and at first trained as a violinist, the soprano Hasmik Papian studied singing at the Yerevan Conservatory. She was a winner in the Moscow Tchaikovsky Competition and was equally successful in Toulouse, at the Vienna Belvedere Competition and in 1992 in Sofia. She made her operatic début as Mimi in Puccini’s La Bohème in Yerevan, where she also sang the rôles of Rosina and Micaela. In 1992 she undertook at short notice the role of Norma in Warsaw, where she also sang Salome, Aida, Abigail, Mimi, Tosca, Micaela and Violetta. Further guest performances have followed throughout Europe as well as in the United States of America, including the rôle of Abigail at La Scala, Milan, and Tosca at the Vienna State Opera.

 

 

 

 

 

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 9, 'Choral' 8.553478

BELLINI: Norma (DNO, 2005) (NTSC) OA0959D

CLASSICS AT THE MOVIES - SUSPENSE 8.556810

DISCOVER THE SYMPHONY 8.554337-38

EXPLOSIVE CLASSICS 8.554581

KILAR: Angelus / Exodus / Krzesany 8.554788

LOVE AND PEACE 8.557362DX

TCHAIKOVSKY: Pique Dame (Paris Opera National, 2005) (NTSC) DVWW-OPPIQUE

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BTW She is married to a german man and has a daughter named Siranuysh...