Hakobyan
Gevorg Hakobyan was born in Armenia. He studied at the Komitas State Conservatory in Yerevan with Maestro Sergey Danielyan. While still a student, he joined the Armenian State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre. In 2008, Gevorg was awarded both the Gold Medal and First Prize at the prestigious 1st International Pavel Lisitsian Baritone Competition in Moscow, In 2011 he was recognized as a Merited Artist of the Republic of Armenia. Hakobyan is an Associate Professor of the Vocal Department at Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory, he has been teaching classical vocal at the vocal-theoretical department since 2010.
Gevorg has an ever-growing international reputation, performing regularly at multiple opera houses and theatres including the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Teatro Regio di Torino, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Teatro Real de Madrid, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Wiener Staatsoper, Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Oper Frankfurt, Opéra de Lille, Mariinsky and Mikhailovsky Theatres, Armenian National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet, Kiel Opera House. In addition, Gevorg performs frequently at the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari, Palau de les Arts Valencia, Hong Kong Cultural Centre and the 'Stars of the White Nights' International Festival.
He made Bolshoi Theatre debut as Grigory Gryaznoi (The Tsar’s Bride), in 2017.
Gold Medal and 1st Prize at the I International Pavel Lisitsian Baritone Competition
Honored Artist of the Republic of Armenia
President of the Republic of Armenia Award
Armenian Music Award
Grigory Gryaznoi (The Tsar’s Bride)
Count Tomsky (The Queen of Spades)
Ibn-Hakia (Iolanta)
Mazeppa (Tchaikvosky’s Mazeppa)
Baron Scarpia (Tosca)
Fyodor (The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya) — Teatro Lirico in Cagliari
Onegin (Eugene Onegin) — Teatro Lirico in Cagliari
Alfio (Cavalleria rusticana) — Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Teatro Lirico in Cagliari, Palau de les Arts Valencia, Teatro Carlo Felice Genoa, Mikhailovsky Theatre
Tonio (Pagliacci) — Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Teatro Lirico in Cagliari
Norace (Porrino’s I Shardana) — Teatro Lirico in Cagliari
A devil (Tchaikvosky’s Cherevichki) — Teatro Lirico in Cagliari
Gérard (Andrea Chénier) — Theater Kiel
Mathieu (Andrea Chénier) — Teatro dell’Opera di Roma
Scarpia (Tosca) — Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, eatro Regio di Torino, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Theater Kiel, Mariinsky Theatre, Armenian National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet, Palau de les Arts Valencia
Nabucco (Nabucco) — Terme di Caracalla Rome, Theater Kiel, Mariinsky Theatre
Amonasro (Aida) — Palau de les Arts Valencia, Mariinsky Theatre
Sharpless (Madama Butterfly) — Palau de les Arts Valencia
Paolo Albiani (Simon Boccanegra) — Palau de les Arts Valencia, Hong Kong Cultural Centre
Simon Boccanegra (Simon Boccanegra) — Mariinsky Theatre
Don Carlo di Vargas (La forza del destino) — Oper Frankfurt
Mossy (Tigranian’s Anoush) — Armenian National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet
Escamillo (Carmen) — Armenian National Academic Theatre
Aleko (Rachmaninov’s Aleko) — Armenian National Academic Theatre
Tomsky (The Queen of Spades) — Staatsoper Stuttgart
Ibn-Hakia (Iolanta) — Palau de les Arts Valencia