Lilit Davtyan
SopranoLilit earned her Bachelor’s degree in Performing Arts in 2020, followed by a Master’s degree in 2022. From 2018 to 2021, she worked as an accompanist and piano teacher at the Sayat-Nova Music School, simultaneously performing as a singer and pianist at the Yerevan State Conservatory’s Opera Studio. In September 2021, she joined the Young Opera Artists Program of the Bolshoi Theatre. She has been studying vocals with the Artistic Director of the Program Dmitry Vdovin, Makvala Kasrashvili, Luba Orfenova, and Ekaterina Vasheruk.
In 2021 she performed in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale as Norina, and Gluck’s Orfeo and Euridice as Eurydice. She made her debut on the Historical Stage and on the New stage of the Bolshoi Theatre in the operas Lohengrin by Wagner, Le nozze di Figaro by Mozart, and Kai and Gerda by Banevich. Recent highlights include roles as Pamina in Die Zauberflöte and Adele in Die Fledermaus. Davtyan has also excelled as solo soprano in Stabat Mater by Pergolesi, Gloria by Vivaldi, Requiem & Messa dell’Incoronazione by Mozart, Carmina burana by Orff and participation in Chamber Music concerts in the Beethoven Hall of the Bolshoi Theatre.
Lilit Davtyan has participated in many contests, notably in 2016 she received the “Grand Prix” of the “XII International Competition-Festival of Young Performers” in Russia, Yekaterinburg; in 2019 “I Prize” at the “XVI International Città di Pesaro Competition” in Italy, Pesaro; in 2021 the II Prize and Special Prize “For the best performance of a work by a Russian composer by a foreign participant in the Competition” at the II International Competition “Jose Carreras Grand Prix” in Russia, Moscow. In 2022, she won a special prize for performing songs by Rachmaninov in the S. Rachmaninoff International Competition for Pianists, Composers and Conductors.
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