OHAN DURIAN CONDUCTOR HAS DECIDED TO LEAVE ARMENIA

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OHAN DURIAN CONDUCTOR HAS DECIDED TO LEAVE ARMENIA

29.06.2001

 

/PanARMENIAN.Net/. Former chief conductor of the National opera and ballet theatre of Armenia Ohan Durian has made a final decision to leave homeland in autumn. He will give a farewell concert before departure. But before it he intends to get to the law with a claim to compensate the harm and protect his business reputation. The maestro protests against the illegal on his opinion decision on his removal from the post of the conductor of the opera house. The Government and the Ministry of Culture will be respondents.

[MosJan]

) Maestro Dourian Files Suit Against Government

YEREVAN (combined sources)--Ohan Dourian, former conductor of the Yerevan Opera, has brought suit against the Armenian government and the Armenian culture ministry, protesting his sacking earlier this year. Dourian, who happens to be a French citizen, is demanding $250,000 in compensation.

 

Ohan Dourian had been appointed the Opera Theater's conductor for life by former prime minister Vazgen Sarkisian (assassinated in the 1999 parliament shootings).

 

The conductor's lawyer Tigran Janoyan said on Friday that the mentioned sum accounts only for the damages suffered by Dourian's wife, and that the actual amount of damages was much higher.

 

Janoyan said Dourian had been invited by the Armenian authorities to work in Armenia, however working and living conditions had not been created for him , forcing the conductor to "finally leave Armenia." It was announced that Ohan Dourian will not accept any offers and will not forgive the authorities for insulting him.

 

The lawyer cited the legal and moral argumentation of the lawsuit. The culture ministry's dismissal of Dourian, citing his alleged poor state of physical and mental health, does not correspond to the fact that Dourian conducted successful concerts recently in Lebanon and the United States. Janoyan said the arguments have damaged Dourian's worldwide reputation as a renowned conductor.

 

Dourian's wife Alice, who was also present at the press conference, said her husband had been persecuted during the Soviet era and was now being persecuted in the independent Republic of Armenia.

 

It was announced that Dourian will give a farewell concert in Armenia before his departure.

[Harut]

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[MosJan]

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gone mer arvestagetneri yev mtavorakaneri hamar baren@past paymaner petqa stetsen vor gone es mek@ chmerni.

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ehh barekam , inch asem , ira n@manern en gnalsel , portrsel , nvirvel yev nvirvel , verchum el mi hatr qatsi en statsel iren isk hravirornerits , yev qor u puj torel heratsel etterits,

gone inq@ dzevakanoren , mi Data batsel "petutyan" dem , aysinqn inch petutyun , ehhhhhhhhhh

 

gone mer arvestagetneri yev mtavorakaneri hamar baren@past paymaner petqa stetsen vor gone es mek@ chmerni.

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Has anybody news about Ohan Dourian ? I had heard that he was ill.

I was in his choral when I was young.

I had heard that he was director of the Opera of Yerevan.

Now I have no more news .

I had a website, www.oganduryan.com

but when I tried to open it, it was not possible.