Tenor
Liparit
Avetisyan
Honored Artist of the Republic of Armenia
Liparit Avetisyan

Born in Yerevan Liparit Avetisyan studied at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory from 2008 to 2011, later he was transferred to the Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan to study under the leadership of professor Rafayel Hakobyants. During his studies, he won Second Prize in both the Maria Biesu International Singing Competition and the III Muslim Magomaev International Vocalists Contest.

Since 2016 Avetisyan has been a leading artist of the Armenian Opera and Ballet National Academic Theatre. He was a guest artist of the Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theatre from 2017-2019.

Liparit Avetisyan made his European debut in the autumn of 2016 as Fenton in a new production of Falstaff at the Cologne Opera and has since been acknowledged as one of the most exciting lyric tenors of his generation. He performs at the world’s leading opera houses, such as the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Berlin State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Den Norske Opera in Oslo, Semperoper Dresden, Cologne Opera and Hamburg State Opera. He also sings at Wiener Staatsoper, Zürich Opera, Opera Australia, Seattle Opera, Frankfurt Opera, Opera du Rhin in Strasbourg, Bavarian State Opera and Peralada Festival.

Also active on the concert stage in recent years, he has appeared at the XXI International Music Festival Stars of the White Nights in Saint Petersburg, Easter Festival in Moscow, Beethoven Fest in Poland, Mustonen Fest in Estonia, and Midem Fest in France. He also performed in benefit concerts dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide with Evgeni Kissin at Carnegie Hall and the Music Center at Strathmore in Washington.

In 2017, made his Bolshoi Theatre debut as Alfredo (La Traviata).

Awards

2nd prize at the Maria Biesu International Singing Competition 

2013, Chișinău

'Golden Mask' National Theatre Award as the Best Opera Actor for the role of Des Grieux in Massenet’s Manon

2017

2nd prize at the International competition 'Muses of the World'

2010, Moscow

2nd prize at the III Muslim Magomaev International Vocalists Contest

2014, Moscow

Onegin National Opera Award as the Best Guest Artist

2016, Saint Petersburg
Repertoire
2023
Repertoire at the Bolshoi Theatre

Alfredo (La Traviata)

Count Almaviva (Il Barbiere di Siviglia)

Repertoire

Alfredo (La Traviata) — Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Bavarian State Opera, Opera Australia, Berlin State Opera, Semperoper Dresden, Hamburg State Opera, Zürich Opera, Yerevan State Opera and Ballet Theatre, Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Opera

Rodolfo (La Bohème) — Berlin State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Frankfurt Opera, Yerevan State Opera and Ballet Theatre, Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Opera

Duke (Rigoletto) — Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Seattle Opera, Opera Australia, Wiener Staatsoper, Cologne Opera, Zürich Opera, Den Norske Opera in Oslo, Yerevan State Opera and Ballet Theatre, Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Opera, Le Festival Berlioz de La Côte-Saint-André

Edgardo (Lucia di Lammermoor) — Semperoper Dresden, Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Opera

Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore) — Royal Opera House, Wiener Staatsoper, Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Opera

Don José (Carmen) — Yekaterinburg State Opera and Ballet, Yerevan State Opera and Ballet Theatre, Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Opera

Des Grieux (Massenet’s Manon) — Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Opera

Almaviva (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) — Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Opera, Yerevan State Opera and Ballet Theatre

Prince (Prokofiev’s The Love for Three Oranges) — Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Opera

Lensky (Eugene Onegin) — Opera du Rhin in Strasbourg

Vaudemont (Iolanta) — Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Opera, Berlin Philharmonic

Fenton (Falstaff) — Cologne Opera

Tamino (Die Zauberflöte) — Peralada Festival in Spain

Verdi and Mozart Requiems, Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde

The tenor has collaborated with the great conductors of our days including Sir Antonio Pappano, Constantin Orbelian, Anton Orlov, Vahan Martirosyan, Lior Shambadal, Eduard Topchyan, Michael Guettler, Vladimir Jurovsky, Kirill Petrenko, the opera stars such as Pretty Yende, Federica Lombardi, Sonya Yoncheva, Lisette Oropesa, Ailyn Pérez, Placido Domingo, Carlos Álvarez, Jonas Kaufmann and many others.

2020
Verdi's Otello

Cassio part, conducted by A. Pappano, Sony CD - Opus Klassik 2021 Award Winner (Opera Recording of the Year)

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