Anahit Mekhitarian

Anahit Mekhitarian (also spelled Mkhitaryan or Mkhitarian) (Armenian: Անահիտ Մխիթարյան; Russian: Анаит Мхитарян; born 6 March 1969) is an Armenian operatic soprano. A leading soloist of the National Theater of Opera and Ballet of Armenia, she was conferred the title of Honored Artist of Armenia in 2003. In 2013 on the occasion of Republic day, she was awarded medal for Merit to the Fatherland. She has won first prize at three international singing competitions: the Francesc Viñas International Singing Competition (Spain, 1990), the Vincenzo Bellini International Competition (Italy, 1991), and the Julián Gayarre International Singing Competition (Spain, 1996).

Anahit Mekhitarian
Մխիթարյան Անահիտ
Анаит Мхитарян
In the title role of Armen Tigranian's opera Anoush
Background information
Born (1969-03-06) 6 March 1969
Echmiadzin, Armenia
Occupation(s)Opera singer (soprano)

Life and career

Mekhitarian, was born in Echmiadzin, Armenia. She graduated with Honours from the Yerevan Conservatory, first in the piano department and then in the voice department.

In 1990, at the 28th International Francesc Viñas International Singing Competition in Barcelona, Spain, with Magda Oliviero as the president of the judging panel, Mekhitarian won the First Prize.[1] Less than a year later, in 1991, she was awarded the First Prize at the 23rd Vincenzo Bellini International Competition in Sicily, with Dame Joan Sutherland as the president of the judging panel.[2] Her third victory came in 1996, when she won the First Prize at the 6th Julián Gayarre International Singing Contest in Pamplona, Spain, with José Carreras as the president of the jury.[3]

In the course of her career she has appeared throughout Europe as well as in North and South America, Australia, and the Middle East. Her opera appearances include the Gayarre Opera Theater (as Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor), the Roman Theater in Mérida "Festival de Teatro Clasico" (as Paolina in Poliuto) in Seville and the Teatro Colón in A Coruña (as Desdemona in Otello), at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles (as Anush in Anush), and the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow (as Norma in Norma),.[4] She has performed concerts at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Palau de la Música Catalana, Salle Gaveau, St John's, Smith Square, Malmö Concert Hall, Auditorio Nacional de Música, Madrid, Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg and Kolonni Zalin Moscow, amongst others.

She is a principal soloist at the National Opera and Ballet Theater of Armenia in Yerevan.[5] In 2003 she was conferred the title of Honored Artist of Armenia. In 2009 she gave a gala concert conducted by Miquel Ortega in celebration of the 75th anniversary of National Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet in Yerevan.

Mekhitarian is married to Armen Hakobyan, a professor at the Armenian State University of Economics.

Repertoire

Mekhitarian's repertoire includes these significant roles:[6]

References
  1. Concurso Internacional de Canto Francisco Viñas. Winners: 1981–1990 Archived 3 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 23 February 2013 (in Spanish)
  2. Concorso Internazionale Vincenzo Bellini. Albo d'Oro dei Vincitori (Winners' List) Archived 3 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 23 February 2013 (in Italian)
  3. ABC (23 September 1996). "Carlos Moreno y Anahit Mekhitarian vencedores del Concurso Gayarre". Retrieved 23 February 2013 (in Spanish).
  4. Kadiev, Arkady (13 January 2003). "Ереванская Норма" ("Norma from Yerevan"). Итоги. Retrieved 1 March 2013 (in Russian).
  5. Opera and Ballet Theater of Armenia. Soprano soloists Archived 5 November 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
  6. Opera and Ballet Theater of Armenia. Anahit Mekhitarian Archived 1 March 2013 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
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