Grigorian Asmik
Asmik Grigorian (born 1981) is a Lithuanian operatic soprano.
Life and career
Born in 1981 in Vilnius, Asmik Grigorian is the daughter of the Armenian tenor Gegham Grigoryan and the Lithuanian soprano Irena Milkevičiūtė. She studied music at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre graduating with a master's degree in 2006. Grigorian debuted in Lithuania, later performing at the Latvian National Opera and the Mariinsky Theater. She is the founding member of Vilnius City Opera and the recipient of the highest Lithuanian theatre award, the Golden Stage Cross twice, in 2005 and 2010.
Since 2011, Grigorian performed in various opera houses on the international stage. She was first noted in operas by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, performing leading roles, such as Nastasha in The Enchantress at the Theater an der Wien in September 2014 and as Tatiana in Eugene Onegin at the Komische Oper Berlin in 2016.
In May 2016, Grigorian was honored at the International Opera Awards in London as the Best Newcomer ("Young Female Singer"). At the Royal Swedish Opera, she performed in December 2016 at the premiere of the opera Fedora by Umberto Giordano in the title role. In her debut at the Salzburg Festival in August 2017, she sang the role of Marie in Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck to critical acclaim. Grigorian was praised as a "superb musician, with deep understanding of Bergian vocal style".
Discography
With Dmitri Hvorostovsky: Dmitri Hvorostovsky Sings of War, Peace, Love and Sorrow, as duet partner in War and Peace by Sergey Prokofiev and The Demon by Anton Rubinstein. Delos International, 2016