- Stavros Niarchos Hall / Herodion
Armenian tenor, he made his European debut in the autumn of 2016, as Fenton in Falstaff at the Cologne Opera. After that, other international debuts followed at leading theatres worldwide such as Royal Opera House (Covent Garden, London), Vienna State Opera, Berlin State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Zurich Opera, Opera Australia, Bavarian State Opera, Dresden State Opera, Frankfurt Opera, Hamburg State Opera, Norwegian Opera (Oslo), Opéra national du Rhin (Strasbourg), Seattle Opera, Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires) and Bolshoi Theatre (Moscow). A graduate of the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory and the Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan, he is a prizewinner at the Maria Bieșu International Singing Competition and the 3rd Muslim Magomayev International Vocalists Contest. He has received many awards, including Golden Mask (Best Opera Actor, 2017) for the role of Des Grieux in Massenet’s Manon, Onegin National Opera Award (2016), Artavazd National Theatre Award (Best Actor of the Year, 2016) and Swallow Music Award (Best Opera Singer, 2017). He is an Honoured Artist of the Republic of Armenia.