KristinaMkhitaryan
Representation
About Kristina
Kristina Mkhitaryan is a graduate of the Galina Vishnevskaya Theatre Studio, Moscow. She has won first prize at the Queen Sonja International Competition in Oslo (2013), third prize at the Neue Stimmen Competition (2013) and the Viotti Competition in Vercelli (2014). Kristina won 2nd Prize at the 2017 Operalia Competition.
Career highlights include La traviata at the Royal Opera House, a role which she now sings to acclaim in major opera houses worldwide, Gilda in Rigoletto with Opera Australia and Hamburgische Staatsoper, as well as the title role in Alcina at Opéra National de Lorraine, and Armida in Rinaldo under the baton of Maxim Emelyanychev at the Glyndebourne Festival. She has also sung at the Grand Théâtre de Genève as Leila in Les pêcheurs de perles, the Wiener Staatsoper in productions including La Traviata, L'elisir d'amore and Turandot and the Metropolitan Opera in their productions of Gianni Schicchi and La bohème (Musetta).
Kristina's ongoing success has recently seen her make two major role debuts - one in Dutch National Opera's acclaimed production of Donizetti's Maria Stuarda, and then Tatiana in Eugene Onegin at Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona.
An exciting 2024-25 season will see Kristina return to the role of Tatiana in Eugene Onegin at the Royal Opera House, London (new production by Ted Huffman) and Teatro Real Madrid. She will also make her role debut as Mimi in La Bohème at the Metropolitan Opera and will also feature in productions of La Traviata at Teatro Perez Galdos, Massenet’s Manon at Weiner Staatsoper and as the title role in a concert performance of Maria Padilla at the Teatro de la Maestranza.
Representation
Season Highlights
Video
Kristina Mkhitaryan sings the 'Letter Aria' from Eugene Onegin
Credit: Liceu Barcelona
PlayingKristina Mkhitaryan sings Maria's Aria from Donizetti's Maria Stuarda
Credit: Dutch National Opera
PlayingKristina Mkhitaryan sings ‘Tu che di gel sei cinta’ from Puccini's Turnadot
Credit: Unitel
PlayingKristina Mkhitaryan sings ‘Signore, ascolta!’ from Puccini’s Turandot
Credit: Unitel
PlayingKristina Mkhitaryan sings Micaela's aria from Carmen
Credit: Kristina Mkhitaryan
PlayingKristina Mkhitaryan sings 'Sempre Libera' from Verdi's La traviata at the Liceu
Credit: Liceu Barcelona
PlayingKristina Mkhitaryan sings Violetta's "È strano... Ah fors'è lui" at the Royal Opera House Muscat, Oman
Credit: Royal Opera House Muscat, Oman
PlayingKristina Mkhitaryan sings 'O mio babbino caro' in her Metropolitan Opera debut
Credit: Metropolitan Opera
PlayingKristina Mkhitaryan sings 'Lassa, che far degg'io' from Cavalli's Il Giasone
Credit: Grand Théâtre de Genève
PlayingKristina Mkhitaryan sings the 'Finale' from Cavalli's Il Giasone
Credit: Grand Théâtre de Genève
PlayingKristina Mkhitaryan sings Medora in Verdi's Il Corsaro
Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia, Valencia. Directed by Nicola Raab and conducted by Fabio Biondi, 2018. Credit: Palau de les Arts
Playing
Audio
- Kristina Mkhitaryan sings Il Delirio Amoroso ("Ma fermati pensier" and "Per te lasciai la luce")Credit: Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
- Kristina Mkhitaryan sings Il Delirio Amoroso ('Un pensiero voli in ciel')Credit: Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Selected Repertoire
Bellini | I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Giulietta) • I Puritani (Elvira) • La Sonnambula (Amina) • |
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Bizet | Carmen (Michaëla) |
Cavalli | Il giasone (Isifile) • Eliogabalo |
Donizetti | L'elisir d'Amore (Adina) • Don Pasquale (Norina) • Lucia di Lammermoor • Maria Stuarda |
Glinka | Ruslan y Lyudmila |
Gluck | Orfeo ed Euridice (Euridice) |
Gounod | Roméo et Juliette |
Handel | Alcina • Rodelinda • Giulio Cesare (Cleopatra) • Ariodante (Ginevra) • Trionfo del Tempo e della Verita' (Bellezza) |
Massenet | Manon |
Monteverdi | L'incoronazione di Poppea (Poppea) |
Mozart | Le nozze di Figaro (Contessa) • Don Giovanni (Donna Anna) |
Offenbach | Tales of Hoffmann (Antonia) |
Puccini | La Boheme (Musetta, Mimi *in preparation) |
Ravel | L'enfants et les sortilèges (Une pastourelle, La chouette, La chauve-souris) |
Rimsky-Korsakov | Snowmaiden • The Tsar's Bride |
Strauss | Der Rosenkavalier (Sophie) |
Verdi | Il Corsaro (Medora) • I masnadieri *in preparation • La traviata (Violetta) • Luisa Miller *in preparation • Otello (Desdemona) *in preparation • Rigoletto (Gilda) • Simon Boccanegra (Amelia) *in preparation |
News
Press
Song Series (Rachmaninov)
Wigmore HallJan 2024Mkhitaryan’s voice is gorgeously rich and creamy throughout her range from the throbbing chest notes in Ippolitov-Ivanov’s ‘Do not leave me without saying farewell’ to the floated notes above the stave (Rachmaninov’s ‘They answered’ and ‘Here it’s so fine’).
- Barry Creasy, MusicOMH
- 18 January 2024