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Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt

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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.

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Season Highlights

Sep 2024 - Oct 2024
Royal Opera House, London
Eugene Onegin (role of Tatyana) Henrik Nánási (Conductor) Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Nov 2024
Weiner Staatsoper, Austria
Manon (role of Manon Lescaut)
Jan 2025 - Feb 2025
Teatro Real Madrid
Eugene Onegin (role of Tatiana) Gustavo Gimeno (Conductor) Christof Loy (Director) Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real

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  • 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

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Selected Repertoire

BelliniI Capuleti e i Montecchi (Giulietta)   •   I Puritani (Elvira)   •   La Sonnambula (Amina)   •   
BizetCarmen (Michaëla)
CavalliIl giasone (Isifile)   •   Eliogabalo
DonizettiL'elisir d'Amore (Adina)   •   Don Pasquale (Norina)   •   Lucia di Lammermoor   •   Maria Stuarda
GlinkaRuslan y Lyudmila
GluckOrfeo ed Euridice (Euridice)
GounodRoméo et Juliette
HandelAlcina   •   Rodelinda   •   Giulio Cesare (Cleopatra)   •   Ariodante (Ginevra)   •   Trionfo del Tempo e della Verita' (Bellezza)
MassenetManon
MonteverdiL'incoronazione di Poppea (Poppea)
MozartLe nozze di Figaro (Contessa)   •   Don Giovanni (Donna Anna)
OffenbachTales of Hoffmann (Antonia)
PucciniLa Boheme (Musetta, Mimi)
RavelL'enfants et les sortilèges (Une pastourelle, La chouette, La chauve-souris)
Rimsky-KorsakovSnowmaiden   •   The Tsar's Bride
VerdiIl 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

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  • Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky)

    Royal Opera House
    Sep 2024

    • Mkhitaryan is vocally stunning, with a full, fearless and luminous upper register

    • Kristina Mkhitaryan’s Tatyana credibly plays the naïve teenager at the start and grows with elegance into the Prince’s wife in the closing scenes...more than anybody else she fills this bare stage with feeling. The hushed intensity she brings to the heart of the letter scene is the high point of the performance.

    • Kristina Mkhitaryan is the Tatyana of one’s dreams, displaying a gloriously lyrical soprano, but with a Slavic glint to the tone where required. Her ‘Letter Scene’ was an outpouring of unbridled passion, holding the audience enthralled, and she chartered the character’s development, from a dreamy girl deeply in love with Onegin to a mature woman who knew her own mind, faultlessly

    • Kristina Mkhitaryan’s outstanding Tatyana sung with passion, touching sincerity and a burnished soprano. Her Letter Scene was gloriously sung, particularly the hushed lines 'Who are you? My guardian angel or a wily tempter?', in duet with solo French horn.

    • As Tatyana, Kristina Mkhitaryan...kept power in reserve and finished strongly, but didn’t impose herself in the letter scene. She sang it beautifully, with heartfelt phrasing, creamy timbre and top notes of great clarity

    • Russian soprano Kristina Mkhitaryan is a completely charming Tatyana, growing through the role from tender teenager to gracious princess

    • Kristina Mkhitaryan also brings an attractive tonal quality and impressive line to the role of Tatyana...when she raised the emotional intensity later, turning the tables on Onegin while evincing the bitter pain of her own regret, she gave notice of a superior Tatyana in the making.

    • Mkhitaryan’s Tatyana, meanwhile, captures her character development perfectly. Both the introverted, shy Tatyana from the opera and the later incarnation who sacrificed desire for stability are represented stupendously well with some cunning acting and a beautiful voice that melts the heart, specifically during the letter scene.

    • Some of the key passages are sung right up next to the proscenium, which allows for some daringly quiet singing from Mkhitaryan’s gleaming, expressive Tatyana and Liparit Avetisyan’s forthright yet nuanced Lensky, the two standout performers in a strong cast.