Tenor
Migran
Agadzhanyan
Migran Agadzhanyan

Born in Rostov-on-Don, Migran Agadzhanyan graduated from the Rimsky-Korsakov St Petersburg State Conservatory in 2016, as a pianist (class of Vladimir Mischouk) and as an opera and symphony conductor (class of Vladimir Altschuler).

As a child, he studied singing with Vladimir Eknadiosov, and sang in the children’s chorus of the Rostov State Musical Theatre.

In 2010 he won the Grand Prix at the competition The Trembling Sounds of the Romance in St Petersburg, was a finalist at the International Competition for Young Opera Singers Flaviano Labò in Piacenza (Italy) and completed his studies at masterclasses at the Opera Studio of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, where he studied with Renata Scotto and Giuseppe Sabbatini. Then he was as a member of Los Angeles Opera’s Young Artist Program, Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Metropolitan Opera.

In 2016–17 the musician was a soloist with the Grand Théâtre de Genève.

In 2012 Migran Agadzhanyan made his Mariinsky Theatre debut, performing the part of Moralès in Carmen. Since 2017 he regularly appears on the St Petersburg stage.

In 2012 Migran Agadzhanyan founded the Youth Symphony Orchestra of St Petersburg and has since been its Artistic Director and Principal Conductor.

In 2021 he made his debut as a conductor (Carmen) at the Mariinsky Theatre, where he also conducted the operas Rigoletto, Pagliacci, La bohème and Madama Butterfly.

In January 2022 Migran Agadzhanyan made his debut as a conductor at the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre (La bohème), and from February 2022 to June 2023 he was its Principal Conductor.

Awards

1st prize at the 8th Elena Obraztsova International Competition of Young Opera Singers

2011, St Petersburg

2nd prize at the 3rd Ilya Musin All-Russian Young Symphony Orchestra Conductors’ Open Competition

2013, Kostroma

2nd prize at the 26th World Opera Competition Operalia

2018, Lisbon

3rd prize at the 16th International Tchaikovsky Competition

2019, Moscow – St Petersburg
Repertoire
2024
Repertoire at the Mariinsky Theatre

Vaudémont (Iolanta)
Indian Merchant (Sadko)
Sir Edgar Ravenswood (Lucia di Lammermoor)
Ismaele (Nabucco)
Macduff (Macbeth)
Duke of Mantua (Rigoletto)
Alfredo Germont (La traviata)
Arrigo (I vespri siciliani)
Gabriele Adorno (Simon Boccanegra)
Riccardo (Un ballo in maschera)
Don Carlo (Don Carlo)
Fenton (Falstaff)
Don Fernand Guevara (Cristoforo Colombo, in concert)
Rodolfo (La bohème)
Mario Cavaradossi (Tosca)
Maurice de Saxe (Adriana Lecouvreur)
Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly)
Faust (Gounod’s Faust)
Don José, Moralès (Carmen)
Tenor part in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony

Repertoire also includes

Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore)
Beppe (Pagliacci)
Rodolfo (Luisa Miller)
Cassio (Verdi’s Otello)
Lensky (Eugene Onegin)
Chekalinsky (The Queen of Spades)
Flavio (Norma)
Prince Yuri (The Enchantress)
Jason (Cherubini’s Médée)
Demo, Volano (Cavalli’s Giasone)
King Charles VII (The Maid of Orleans)
Prince (Dvořák’s Rusalka)
Ernani (Ernani)
tenor part in Alexander Tchaikovsky’s oratorio To the Sun 

He appeared at festivals in Verbier (Switzerland) and Baden-Baden (Germany) together with the Mariinsky Company.

General partner of the Bolshoi Theatre — insurance company «Ingosstrakh»
Privileged sponsor of the Bolshoi Theatre — Tinkoff Bank
Privileged partner of the Bolshoi Theatre — GUM