Tigran Martirosyan

[MJ]

SAT MAT, October 26, 2002

1:30 - 4:30

Il Pirata

Casting

 

Imogene: Renée Fleming

Gualtiero: Marcello Giordani

Ernesto: Dwayne Croft

Goffredo: Tigran Martirosyan

 

Conducted by: Bruno Campanella

For a brief synopsis, production credits and information about other performances of this Metropolitan Opera production, please see the Production Overview

 

http://www.metopera.org/cgi-bin/perf.pl?se...03&opera=PRTA02

 

In the last couple of years of my residence in Armenia, Tigran Martirosyan was a rising. It is very pleasing to discover his consistent growth over the last decade.

 

Here is a brief bio of his:

 

Tigran MARTIROSYAN

 

Tigran Martirosyan was born in Erevan on June 2, 1970.

 

In 1995 he graduated from the Gnesiny Russian Musical Academy of Moscow (A. Eizen's class). In 1993 he became a soloist of the Moscow municipal theatre New Opera. In 1996 he was admitted to the opera company of the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia.

 

• Winner of the First Prize of the All-Russia Competition of Russian Music (1992)

• Winner of a diploma and of a special prize of the 10th Tchaikovsky International Competition (1994)

• Winner of the second prize of the Competition of the Queen of Norway Sonya (Oslo, 1995)

• Winner of the Khristov International Young Singers Competition (Sofia, 1996)

 

His repertory includes: King Rene (Tchaikovsky's "Iolanta"), Ramphis (Verdi's "Aida"), Pimen (Musorgsky's "Boris Godunov"), King of Clubs (Prokofiev's "Love for Three Oranges"), Galitsky (Borodin's "Prince Igor"), Raymondo (Donicetti's Lucia di Lammermur").

 

One can also see his photo at http://www.opera.ru/english/truppa_opera_5_3.phtml

 

P.S. In the passage above, I meant to say "Tigran Martirosyan was a rising star."

 

[ October 27, 2002, 09:43 AM: Message edited by: MJ ]