Hasmik Papian
Hasmik Papian (Armenian Հասմիկ Պապյան, born September 2, 1961 in Yerevan ) is an Armenian soprano.
Life
She was at the Music School in Yerevan their education first as a violinist, then as a singer. After her debut at the Yerevan National Opera led her over stations in Moscow and Warsaw at the Bonn Opera, later to Dusseldorf.
Soon, she was invited to the major opera houses and concert halls in the world where she is at home for many years: Metropolitan Opera and Carnegie Hall in New York, Vienna State Opera and the Vienna Musikverein, La Scala, Paris Opera Bastille, Teatro Real Madrid, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, London 's Wigmore Hall, the Concertgebouw and De Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam, Zurich Opera House, at the State Operas of Berlin, Munich, Stuttgart, Hamburg, Dresden, etc. She has performed in almost all European countries, Israel, Lebanon ( Baalbeck International Festival), Japan and Korea, and Latin America (Mexico, Chile, Brazil). Hasmik Papian is regularly in Canada ( Toronto, Montreal) and in the United States (including Washington National Opera, San Francisco Opera, Opera Colorado Denver, Detroit Michigan Opera, Cincinnati Opera Festival, Dallas Opera, etc.) present.
Repertoire
Her repertoire includes roles of the lyric repertoire, to dramatic soprano roles, from Mozart's Donna Anna Mathilde about Rossini ( William Tell ) and Jacques Fromental Halévy's La Juive to Verdi - about twelve games, eg La Traviata, Aida, Desdemona, Elisabetta, Amelia (Simon Boccanegra ), Leonora (La Forza del Destino and Il Trovatore ), Amelia ( Un ballo in maschera ), Elena (I vespri siciliani ), Lady Macbeth, Abigail, Odabella ( Attila ) and the Requiem - as well as Puccini ( Mimì, Tosca, Suor Angelica, La Rondine, Butterfly ), Tchaikovsky (Lisa in Pique Dame) and Wagner ( Senta in the Flying Dutchman ). The central part of her repertoire is Bellini's Norma, which inter alia lately with great success at the Festival Les Chorégies d'Orange in southern France, Marseille, Nantes, Angers, Montpellier, Avignon, Monte Carlo, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Stockholm, Vienna, St. Gallen, Stuttgart, Mannheim, Turin, Trapani, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, in Baltimore, Washington DC, Detroit, Denver, Montreal, Vancouver sang etc.. Since October 2006 there is a DVD release of their Amsterdam Norma. Three other parts of the bel canto repertoire, she has worked since January 2009: Queen Elizabeth I of England in Donizetti's Roberto Devereux ( at the Dallas Opera); the second Donizetti Queen - Maria Stuarda - followed in January 2010 in Trieste; the third ( Anna Bolena ) in November 2010, again in Dallas. In 2011, the singer will debut in two other parts of the dramatic coloratura soprano compartment: Zandonai Francesca da Rimini and Ponchielli's La Gioconda.
Collaboration with conductors, concert
The Armenian soprano with renowned conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Marcello Viotti, Maurizio Arena, Bruno Campanella, Georges Prêtre, Michel Plasson, Gary Bertini, James Levine, James Conlon, Pinchas Steinberg, Daniel Oren, Richard Bonynge, Thomas Hengelbrock, Ivor Bolton, Myung- Whun Chung, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky and Valeri Gergiev occurred. Hasmik Papian is also dedicated to an extensive concert program and is committed to make Armenian music in the world known (works by Komitas Vardapet - since September 2006 in a representative SACD release - further Jeranian, Kanatschian, Tigranian, Tschuchadjian, Avet Terterjan and Tigran Mansurjan ). Thus, the soprano sang in the spring of 2007 recitals with Armenian music in Paris ( Salle Gaveau ), London ( Wigmore Hall ) and Vienna ( Musikverein ) and brought in September 2008 in Montpellier one dedicated to her vocal cycle of Mansurjan premiered. In 2004, she was awarded by the Armenian Republic the title of People's Artist ( equivalent to the German title Kammersängerin ), 2005, she was, for her contributions to Armenian culture and its role as a " cultural ambassador of Armenia in the World" by the head of the Armenian Apostolic Church Catholicos Karekin II Nersissian awarded the Surp Surp Sahak Mashtots Medal. The artist lives in Vienna.